Justin Ishida wins the LBNL runaround T-shirt competition
For posterity.
Reflections on a career studying ribosomes
>*We spent many long nights at the Advanced Light Source, running on coffee, donuts and barbecued ribs from the legendary Everett & Jones BBQ in West Berkeley.* A very interesting historical reflection by Harry Noller entitled “By Ribosome Possessed” has just been published in JBC. It is his personal account of growing up in the…
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Words to Live and Die by
For anyone writing grants this analysis by Rands ought to ring true. It is geared towards the business world, but clearly has relevance to the scientific sphere.
Stephen Quake “The Crumbling Ivory Tower”
Stephen Quake on disclosure and peer review in scientific publications. Peer review is the bedrock value of the scientific community and although it certainly is not perfect, it is, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, “the worst system, except for all the others that have been tried.”
The Wonderful World of Early Computing
[Brief but interesting history of early computers](http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing/) > On September 9, 1945, U.S. Navy officer Grace Hopper found the first computer “bug”: a moth stuck between the relays on the Harvard Mark II. She noted it on her log as the “first actual case of bug being found.” Though the term “bug” had meant a…
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The Fastest Windows Vista Notebook
This is pretty funny
The Gel Dilemma
Rands is even more obsessed about his writing instruments than Jane and I.
The Laptop Herring
I would have to say that these sentiments mirror my own when it comes to the appropriateness of laptops in meetings.