There are certain questions that people ask which are deep and profound. Like, what is the meaning of life? Why be moral? But, there are some questions which people seem to think are deep and profound, but which I don’t think are. Like the “if a tree falls in a forest…” question (HT: Kiwi_grrl) So [...]
Over on Benchpress I referred to a new ad by Roche for their LightCycler 480 PCR machine. My buddy (in offering poor prices for poor companies) Anthony provided the most fitting testimonial of: “If RT-PCR was this cool, I’d do it everyday.” Well done, Roche. Well done:
I was reading a column by Pauline Chen on the New York Times about resident work-hour reform, and I have to say that I’m very stunned and somewhat outraged at a doctor’s claim that resident work-hour reform is a bad idea: I spoke with Dr. Thomas J. Nasca, the chief executive of the Accreditation Council for [...]
Although my good friend Teresa might not want to admit it, print media is dying. After all, why buy an unwieldy stash of paper when blogs and online web versions of newspapers (crazy idea huh?) can do the trick? Well, Ben Claassen III (always gotta show some support for another Ben) came up with some [...]
I’ve posted twice before on the DABA girls blog which has swept the internet. Apparently the brilliant writers at the New York Times failed to catch on to what the blog actually was about (HT: Of Vice and Men , from a Google Reader share from Val L): An article on Jan. 28 about women who [...]
It’s never too early to get kids started on the essentials for success in the professional world. Of course, that includes things like teaching them confidence, good communications skills, basic math, but it also includes the most essential thing for any savvy business person: the crackberry. But, RIM (Research in Motion, makers of our most [...]
From the Telegraph (HT: Serena): The Chinese government has begun a concerted campaign of economic threats against the United States, hinting that it may liquidate its vast holding of US Treasury bonds if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation. Two Chinese officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent [...]
Kryptonite killed Superman. In basketball. (HT: Comics Should be Good) Yup, we are talking about none other than this past weekend’s NBA/Sprite slam dunk contest. Where the New York Knick’s own Nate Robinson decked out in all green triumphed over last year’s winner “Superman” Dwight Howard. Here’s Superman winning last year: And here’s Krypto-Nate crushing [...]
First off, I apologize for the lack of blogging. I’ve been busy this past week so haven’t been able to blog as much as I would normally like. Being on my current case for as long as I have been means that any benefits I get from being familiar with the industry are now outweighed [...]
I consider myself, unabashedly, a big Star Trek fan. Being a big fan means a lot of things. It means that I can quickly engage another Star Trek fan in a myriad of “useless” conversation about alien races and science fiction scenarios and debates about “which captain was the greatest” (Sisko, duh). It also means [...]