Last two weeks in the blogs…
Ok, with the RSI I didn’t collect a list for last week, so here’s a list spanning the last two weeks instead…
Fun
- How Gay Marriage Causes Earthquakes (Green Gabbro)
Genetics
- MHC & Mating (Gene Expression)
- Richard Lewontin: “[T]oo rapid for genetic adaptation” (John Hawks)
- When whole genome sequencing becomes passe (bbgm)
- American Journal of Bioethics special issue on personal genomics (Genetic Future)
Geology
- Return of the Quaternary (All of My Faults are Stress Related)
Programming
- Short bioinformatics Hacks, ch. 1 (Byte Size Biology)
- Short bioinformatics hacks, ch. 2: chunk it. (Byte Size Biology)
- The 4 levels of making code work (Programming for Scientists)
- A short list of things I don’t like about Python (Jesse Noller)
- Using polymorphism with boost::shared_ptr (The Lone C++ Coder’s Blog)
- Plotting in Python: matplotlib vs. PyQwt (Eli Bendersky)
Public health
- One more time: Vaccine refusal endangers children (Respectful Insolence)
Research life
- The “Ida” fossil: on missing links and media circuses (Ars Technica)
- A few thoughts on “Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor” (Laelaps)
- Top five annoying questions at scientific meetings (Byte Size Biology)
- EndNote maker’s lawsuit over open-source Zotero dismissed (Ars Technica)
- On the challenges of conference blogging (Genetic Future)
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