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Sorry it has been such a long time since the last summary.  With the flu and finishing the orangutan genome paper, I haven’t been around for a while, and not even had enough time to keep up on the blogs…

Anyway, with only a bit of reading over the last three weeks, this is all I have selected.

Algorithms and Programming and Stuff

• Python language moratorium (Jesse Noller)
• Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures (good coders code, great reuse)
• Including R plots in LaTeX (Michael Knudsen)
• Computers aren’t science (Evolving Thoughts)
• Next permutation — when C++ gets it right (Word Aligned)

Genetics and Evolution

• Revisiting FOXP2 and the origins of language (Not exactly rocket science)
• Portraying the fact, but losing the theory (Laelaps)
• deCODE Genetics declare bankruptcy, will sell core business to US investors (Genetic Future)
• Reviewing the clock, and phylogenomics (John Hawks)

Physics

• Why look for life on Mars? (Starts with a bang)
• Colliding galaxies for fun and for science (Starts with a bang)

Research Life

• Why I left math (Random observations)
• Lazy manager theory (Evolving thoughts)
• A brief analysis of commenting at BMC, PLoS, and BMJ (I was lost but now I live here)

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Fingers crossed that DeCODE survives the bankruptcy in some form!

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I’ve been down with the flu all week.

It seems to be very popular these days.  A lot of people get the flu around here.  Personally, I don’t really see the attraction — I didn’t enjoy it one bit.

Anyway, I’m finally mostly recovered, so I’m up and about again, and getting ready to go to Hinxton for a meeting in the Gorilla Genome Consortium tomorrow.  I’m pretty happy that I recovered just in time, ’cause this is a meeting I’ve been looking forward to.

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