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January 14, 2013

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9:37 PM | Ms. Poulomi Ray Clemson University - Clemson, South Carolina,...

Ms. Poulomi Ray Clemson University - Clemson, South Carolina, USASpecimen: Intestinal mucosa of a 7.5 day old chick embryo (60x) Technique: Confocal

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9:35 PM | Chaos theory is the study of nonlinear dynamics, in which...

Chaos theory is the study of nonlinear dynamics, in which seemingly random events are actually predictable from simple deterministic equations. In a scientific context, the word chaos has a slightly different meaning than it does in its general usage as a state of confusion, lacking any order. Chaos, with reference to chaos theory, refers to an apparent lack of order in a system that nevertheless obeys particular laws or rules; this understanding of chaos is synonymous with dynamical […]

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4:07 PM | - Mr. Viktor Sykora Charles University - Prague, Czech...

- Mr. Viktor Sykora Charles University - Prague, Czech RepublicSpecimen: Seed of a Strelitzia reginae (10x) Technique: Darkfield Illumination

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6:37 AM | Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

Largely credited to Aaron Swartz, this has also found an in depth criticism in Peter Suber’s now archived, Earlham.edu blog on Open Access. I am reproducing it, in memory of the deceased Swartz, as a reminder of the duty that befalls us all. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there [...]

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6:32 AM | #Anonymous Hack MIT Sites: In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz

The online vigilante justice group, anonymous, has hit out at the MIT for the role they purportedly played in bringing about the demise of Aaron Swartz. They took down the Cogeneration Project page and another page which seems to not be loading now. They apologized for taking the Cogen project page down and launched the [...]

January 13, 2013

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11:39 AM | 11th Prize - Alex H. Griman Alex Kawazaki Photography - São...

11th Prize - Alex H. Griman Alex Kawazaki Photography - São Paulo, BrazilSpecimen: Pupil of a Macrobrachium amazonicum (freshwater prawn) (20x) Technique: Stereomicroscopy

January 12, 2013

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3:25 PM | Aaron Swartz Commits Suicide: The Dark Knight Falls

From Aaron’s last blog post: Thus Master Wayne is left without solutions. Out of options, it’s no wonder the series ends with his staged suicide. A year younger to me, and yet, he’s achieved ore than I could imagine achieving in my whole life, and at the untimely age of 26 years, he has gone [...]

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9:51 AM | 19th Prize - Dr. Somayeh Naghiloo University of Tabriz,...

19th Prize - Dr. Somayeh Naghiloo University of Tabriz, Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Tabriz, Iran Specimen: Garlic Technique: Fluorescence

January 11, 2013

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3:20 PM | Berkeley grads grow mushrooms for cash – legally!

Imagine you are in your last semester at college. You’ve done well academically, studied business, and you have a job offer lined up. Your parents are letting up on the constant brow beating about expectations and preparing for the future. … Continue reading →

January 09, 2013

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5:14 PM | spacephilosopher: neurosciencestuff: Study shows cogntive...

spacephilosopher: neurosciencestuff: Study shows cogntive benefit of lifelong bilingualism Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published in the January 9 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Compared to their monolingual peers, lifelong bilinguals also show different patterns of brain activity when making the switch, the study found. The findings suggest the value of regular […]

January 08, 2013

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4:37 PM | The USA Dream for IMGs: Coming to an end? Analysing the 2012 Match

My attention was drawn to an article in the JAMA today (1) by one of my friends who is actively pursuing the USMLE route. And after reading this, I guess I have to admit that one now has to make haste in order to prevent waste. Now I have long been wanting to write about [...]

Traverso G & McMahon GT (2012). Residency training and international medical graduates: coming to America no more., JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 308 (21) 2193-4. PMID: 23212494

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6:40 AM | The Musical and the Mathematical

Not too long ago, I happened to listen to Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2; I think there was more emphasis on creating elaborate patterns of sounds than on producing what some call “nice” music. As a result, enjoyment from listening such a piece seems to come not because one wants to hum and remember any [...]

January 07, 2013

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12:49 AM | ABC Conjecture

An exciting story has developed over the past few months. In August 2012, after months of rumors, the mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki rounded out a series of papers which he claims prove the ABC Conjecture: For every ε > 0, there are only finitely many triples of coprime positive integers a + b = c such [...]

January 06, 2013

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2:00 PM | 2013 Joint Math Meetings Misc Info

Casey Barker has posted two very nice posts regarding JMM 2013 (Post 1, Post 2). Make sure you check those out. If you requested your registration packet be mailed to you, it should have already arrived. The program (shown to the left) is a very valuable resource. It contains information about the talks, social events, [...]

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5:31 AM | What to See and Do at the Joint Mathematics Meeting II

Last month, I was just beginning to plan my trip to the JMM in San Diego. The JMM is next week, and I am looking forward to meeting fellow students from other universities and interacting with mathematicians from around the country, and the world. I’ve used the scheduling tool and imported my schedule to Google [...]

January 04, 2013

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3:06 PM | Keeping it light

Reblogged from The Science Bit: I had the privilege of visiting India the other week. Seriously, no kidding, I totally did. To an outsider India is a highly complex and puzzling place, a complete assault on the senses, and so thought-provoking as to leave your brain sore. On the one hand, there’s all the entrepreneurship, the innovation, the [...]

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8:07 AM | Amazing science facts that will blow your mind pt. 2. You and...

Amazing science facts that will blow your mind pt. 2. You and your viewers will hopefully enjoy it! :) -AsapSCIENCE

January 03, 2013

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6:44 PM | 10 Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D. – Matt Might

Computer Science professor at the University of Utah Matt Might has written an article titled 10 Easy Ways to Fail a Ph.D. He claims that this list relates to PhD’s in any discipline. Dr. Might’s list is as follows: Focus on grades or coursework – He says that no one cares about grades in grad school. He also [...]

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5:20 PM | Just...

I see this gif and think in your tumblr. automatically. My first contact. Nice to meet you....

January 02, 2013

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3:02 AM | 2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 87,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that [...]

January 01, 2013

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12:09 PM | Falling Walls Lab Berlin 2012 - Competition

Falling Walls Lab finalist Quirin introduces his project and discusses his exper...

December 30, 2012

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11:32 AM | Falling Walls Lab Berlin 2012 - Preliminaries

Today, Falling Walls Lab finalist Mai talks about her passion for clear science ...

December 29, 2012

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10:57 PM | Reprogramming Shape By Timothée Vignaud, Qingzong Tseng, Manuel...

Reprogramming Shape By Timothée Vignaud, Qingzong Tseng, Manuel Théry, iRTSV in Grenoble, France Micropatterning can also control a cell’s size and shape. Here Thery and colleagues apply adhesive molecules (e.g., fibronectin) on glass slides in varies shapes—a “T” (top right) or an “H” (bottom right). When they plate one or two cells onto the micropattern, they adopts a convex “envelop” shape around the whole micropattern: the single cell becomes triangular on a T pattern […]

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2:02 PM | Falling Walls Lab Berlin 2012 - 3 minutes, 1 day

This is probably the most exciting event I've come across yet for Coference Cast...

December 28, 2012

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December 26, 2012

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8:24 PM | Dr. Igor Siwanowicz HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus Ashburn,...

Dr. Igor Siwanowicz HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus Ashburn, Virginia, USA Specimen: Moth proboscis. Median (inner) side of an unassuming, tiny gray moth’s proboscis, covered in mechano- and chemo-sensory hairs. Technique: Confocal microscopy with image stitching

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8:19 PM | Cold fusion is a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction that...

Cold fusion is a hypothetical type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature, compared with temperatures in the millions of degrees that is required for “hot” fusion. It was proposed to explain reports of anomalously high energy generation under certain specific laboratory conditions. It has been rejected by the mainstream scientific community because the original experimental results could not be replicated consistently and reliably, and because there is no […]

December 25, 2012

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8:34 AM | #TheekHai: The King’s Speech. NOT!

Merry Christmas, dear readers. Unfortunately, this season of festivities, which has turned secular in India and is celebrated by Christians and non-Christians (like me) alike, has been jarred by a series of unfortunate events, one of which is an exhibition of insipid, uninspiring leadership by the world’s largest democracy. I am not a political person. [...]

December 24, 2012

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7:20 PM | The Woven Brain To the unaided eye, the most striking feature of...

The Woven Brain To the unaided eye, the most striking feature of the human brain is its squiggly pattern of bumps and grooves. But within those curves is a latticework of nerve fibers that cross each other at roughly right angles (above), according to a study published in tomorrow’s issue of Science. The researchers used a recently-developed method called diffusion spectrum imaging to infer the position of nerve fibers in the living human brain from the way water flows through and around […]