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Saturday, October 20, 2012 ::comments

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Sunday, May 27, 2012 ::comments

Interview with a Rainman

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 ::comments

Doing big science: Brian Schmidt and his measurement of the accelerating universe

Monday, July 18, 2011 ::comments

Intuition arises out of Mathematical Intractability

Thursday, June 2, 2011 ::comments

The Pain: Installing Matplotlib in Snow Leopard on a Mac

Sunday, May 22, 2011 ::comments

Jargon: The Art of Naming Things

Thursday, March 3, 2011 ::comments

Solving the Commenting Problem for Science Articles

Monday, February 21, 2011 ::comments

The Reification of Data: from the Printing Press to the Web-centric API

Thursday, December 2, 2010 ::comments

Darwinian Evolution versus Neo-Darwinian Evolution

Monday, November 8, 2010 ::comments

The Minimal Set of Equipment to do Computational Biology

Thursday, October 28, 2010 ::comments

The End of Natural Evolution

Saturday, July 10, 2010 ::comments

We should retire the term "Postdoc"

Thursday, May 27, 2010 ::comments

Beautiful arguments: Linus Pauling's triumphal calculation of the chemical bond

Thursday, April 15, 2010 ::comments

The Religious Enclave in the House of Science

Monday, December 21, 2009 ::comments

You're Just Not that into Science

Saturday, April 18, 2009 ::comments

The attempt to reduce the Scientific Process to Computation

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 ::comments

Rainbow color spectrum in 2dplots considered useless

Tuesday, October 21, 2008 ::comments

The Historical Mix of Tenure, Academic Freedom and Torture

Saturday, June 14, 2008 ::comments

Longevity in science

Friday, April 4, 2008 ::comments

On The Tacit Process of (Scientific) Discovery

Thursday, January 17, 2008 ::comments

Retracing the ghost of Research Past

Monday, October 15, 2007 ::comments

The Plasticity of the Human Face

Sunday, October 14, 2007 ::comments

How the Scientific Publishing Industry Began to Eat Itself

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 ::comments

Overthinking, the curse of the rank beginner

Friday, March 16, 2007 ::comments

How to do Great Science, by the great Richard Hamming

Tuesday, September 19, 2006 ::comments

Self-referential promotion letter

Saturday, September 16, 2006 ::comments

Randomly Entertaining Science Articles

Thursday, May 20, 2004 ::comments

We're Number Two

Tuesday, January 15, 2002 ::comments

theory vs experiment

Saturday, August 4, 2001 ::comments

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Friday, March 15, 1996 ::comments

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