I might have been crazy late with April, but for May, my on-timeliness when it comes to the paper a month posts is returning with a vengeance. This month’s paper from Cell (a journal I usually avoid because their papers are ridiculously long ) dives beneath the surface of one of the classic examples of [...]
It seems each month, I get later and later with these paper a month blog entries. This month, I went a little out of my element. Inspired by Origins, I decided that instead of my usual monthly biology/chemistry paper, I’d give an astronomy one a shot. This month’s paper comes from Nature and relies on [...]
(Cross-posted to Bench Press blog) I’ve posted on plush particles, plush organs, knitted dissections, and even plush microbes. It seems in the math/science world, there’s always some creative soul who wants to cute-ify subjects of study. Well, that set is joined by the latest plush craze… plush… statistical distributions? (HT: Flowing Data). Less stuffed-animal-like per [...]
Apologies for the lack of blogging last week – I was out of town for a lovely wedding. During the course of my trip, however, I got the time to (finally) finish a book I had bought a few months prior: Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution. As I’ve noted several times on the [...]
Ok, so I’m a little behind on my goal from last month to pump out my Paper a Month posts ahead of time, but better late than never! This month’s paper comes once again from Science, as recommended to me by my old college roommate Eric. It was a pertinent recommendation for me, as the [...]
What? Another science paper post? Yup, I’m trying to get ahead of my paper-a-month deadlines by posting February’s while actually still in February! This month’s paper comes from Science and is a topic which is extremely relevant to global health. As you probably know, malaria kills close to 1 million people a year, with most [...]
(Yes, that was a Lady Gaga reference) I’m extremely late for January 2011’s paper-a-month blog post, but better late than never! This month’s paper actually dates to a little over 3 years ago. And, it actually isn’t about monkeys – its about chimpanzees (but “monkey” and “poker” have the same number of syllables, whereas “chimpanzee” [...]
The whole no internet thing really de-railed my plans on blogging one paper every month, so I’m hoping I can make up for lost time this final week of December! The paper I will talk about is from April of this year and highlights the diversity of our “gut flora” (a pleasant way to describe [...]
Look at me, just third to last month on this paper-of-the-month thing, and I’m over 2 weeks late on this. This month’s paper goes into something that is very near and dear to my heart – the application of math/models to biological systems (more commonly referred to as “Systems Biology”). The most interesting thing about [...]
Another month has gone by which means another paper to cover! This month, instead of covering my usual stomping grounds of biology or chemistry, I decided to look into something a little bit more related to my work in venture capital: social networks! The power behind the social network concept goes beyond just the number [...]