Last week in the blogs
Another week, another list…
Computing/programming
- HPC and abstractions (bbgm)
- Innovation or committee (bbgm)
- Does support for open source applications really suck? (Greg Laden)
Flu
- Swine flu: humans, a dangerous species (Effect Measure)
- How do we know how many people die from flu each year? (Effect Measure)
- H1N1/2009: where are we? (Effect Measure)
Genetics
- Human population structure, part n (Gene Expression)
Genomics
- Major themes from Biology of Genomes meeting (Genetic Future)
- Cold Spring Harbor Biology of Genomes meeting (Genetic Future)
- Why don’t we finish the human genome first? (Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
Paleontology
- Bone crushing super wolf went extinct during last ice age (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
- A curious skull from Calaveras County (Laelaps)
Research life
- What to do when your boss says: “Keep your head down” (Adventures in Ethics and Science)
- What? I need to find a post doc position a year in advance of my defense? (DrugMonkey)
Statistics
- “Buffett and Munger: Stay Away From Complex Math, Theories” . . . On the other hand, knowing some math can keep you from being fooled by silly formulas (Statistical Modeling)
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