Biology
- Why do we sleep? (Neuroskeptic)
- Codon optimization is not bunk? (Omics! Omics)
- “Micro homology”. Wut? (Byte size biology)
- How prehistoric sea monsters sorted males from females (Not exactly rocket science)
Evolution
- A punk-size T-rex and an Eagle that ate children?! (Fresno)
- Five essential things to know about evolution (Ars Technica)
- Did the Cambrian really give Darwin nightmares? (Laelaps)
- The greatest show on Earth: The evidence for evolution (Pharyngula)
- Raptorex shows that T.rex body evolved at 100th the size (Not exactly rocket science)
Genetics
- “The worm in the fruit of the mitochondrial DNA tree” (John Hawks)
- Kin are a group (Deep thoughts and silliness)
Next generation sequencing
- The informatics of new sequencing technologies (Genetic future)
Programming
- Apple opens Grand Central; challenges impede Linux adoption (Ars Technica)
- Is Python the Apple of programming languages? (California dreams)
- Checked exceptions, I love you, but you have to go (Google testing blog)
- Modern computing paradigms and the life sciences (bbgm)
- Writing your own toy compiler using Flex, Bison and LLVM (gnuu)
Statistics
- A coincidence occurred. Film at 11. (Revolutions)
Teaching
- The death of science (The education reform blog)
- The purposes and problems of labs (Uncertain principles)
…and some posts I cannot easily categorize:
- The people’s republic of Google (I, Cringely)
- Google Docs has an equation editor (Google operating system)
- Unscientific Australia (Evolving thoughts)
- Is String Theory an unphysical pile of garbage? (Starts with a bang)
- Article-level metrics at PLoS – Download Data (A blog around the clock)
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