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Pawel recommends
- 07/20/11 PHD comic: 'Intellectual Freedom'
- Quantification of mRNA and protein and integration with protein turnover in a bacterium
- [News & Analysis] Psychology: Searching for the Google Effect on People's Memory
- How to waste public money in one easy step…
- Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases
- Differential Producibility Analysis (DPA) of Transcriptomic Data with Metabolic Networks: Deconstructing the Metabolic Response of M. tuberculosis.
- Learning: Not Just the Facts, Ma'am, but the Counterfactuals as Well.
- Genome sequence and analysis of the tuber crop potato
- The neural basis of following advice.
- How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?
Reading list
- Structural basis for alginate secretion across the bacterial outer membrane.
- A Model of Proto-Anti-Codon RNA Enzymes Requiring L: -Amino Acid Homochirality.
- Day Old News is Fresh Enough
- Bridging the Resolution Gap in Structural Modeling of 3D Genome Organization.
- Does the potential for chaos constrain the embryonic cell-cycle oscillator?
- Sequence, structure, and network evolution of protein phosphorylation.
- A Polycomb-based switch underlying quantitative epigenetic memory
- Microbial Virulence as an Emergent Property: Consequences and Opportunities
- How accurate is the new Ion Torrent genome, really?
- The future of model organisms in human disease research.
Posts Tagged ‘scientific method’
Science as a complex system – introduction
29, Jul 2010Image via Wikipedia Which complex system? Complexity theory, that is studying complex systems, is tracked back to 18th century with classical political economy of the Scottish Enlightenment, although the real pioneers of the field are 20th century’s philosophers, economists, mathematicians and social scientists. It’s a rather young field, but it already covers quite large number [...]
On mental inertia in the biological sciences
11, Feb 2010In the recent issue of Trends in Biological Sciences there’s an article by Alexander M. Shneider (yes, the one who also wrote “Four stages of a scientific discipline; four types of scientists“) entitled: “Mental inertia in the biological sciences“. Author defines mental inertia as … the basis that precludes a scientist from taking the most [...]
- In: Memetics
- Tags: bias, cultural context, mental inertia, scientific method