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Interesting Chart from World Outside Bioinformatics
Looks too linear to be believable, but if you like to check further, here is the source. ———————————– P. S. We checked the original presentation from where the chart is taken, and it is indeed a...
View ArticleWeill Cornell Finally Acknowledges that it Defrauded Government
LOL – what better do you expect from an educational institute named after a banker, who is supposed to share a cell with Corzine under proper rule of law. Link After being found by a federal court to...
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Types of Fallacies in Argument
The Wikipedia pages on logical fallacies is quite informative. Few interesting ones: No True Scotsman fallacy Link When faced with a counterexample to a universal claim, rather than denying the...
View Article“Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” by Joseph Schumpeter
“ Can capitalism survive? No. I do not think it can.” Thus opens Schumpeter’s prologue to a section of his 1942 book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. One might think, on the basis of the quote,...
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Should NIH Budget be Cut in an Weak Economy?
Most ‘scientists’ we know agrees with the above tweet forwarded by professor Brown. Dr. Peter Slavin, who wrote the quote, is the President of Mass General Hospital. Raymond DuBois is the Executive...
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Veblen – The Higher Learning In America
Lately we are seeing many complaints of following nature from productive members of academic community. Are American universities businesses or places of learning? What will happen, if universities get...
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Lifecycle of Bureaucracy in Universities
Borrowed from our favorite blog, which provides many more daily insights.
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How did the Romans Do Multiplication? (44 B.C.)
This is interesting for those developing algorithms – The Romans had a clumsy way of writing numbers that made multiplication next to impossible to carry out. Just try to verify the result of the...
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Mathematical Olympiad Dark Arts
For that tiny fraction of our audience not repelled by math, here is an electronic book that is fun to read. Get it while the author gives it out for free !! One new mathematical construct can feed...
View ArticlePast Meets Future – Ewan Birney’s Trip to China
Readers may enjoy the excellent travelogue to China that EBI bioinformatician Ewan Birney posted in his blog. Unlike previous trips, this time he had more time to visit many cities, and get a better...
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