Mailund on the Internet

It’s been a week, so time for me to list my favorite posts from last week.

Chimps

• Chimpanzee collects ammo for “premediated” tourist-stoning (Not exactly rocket science)
• The premeditated chimp (John Hawks)

Programming

• How to … review code (Programming for Scientists)
• How to be a program manager (Joel on Software)
• Sharpening the saw (Coding Horror)
• Ordered sublists. A brute force approach (Word Aligned)
• Longest common subsequence (Word Aligned)

Research

• The value of stupidity: are we doing it right? (Neurotopia)

It is Sunday, so time for my list of blog posts I enjoyed during the week.  Here we go…

Blogging

• It’s good to blog (Nature)
  • Nature: Don’t worry, be bloggy (John Hawks)
  • Go ‘wan, you know you want to. Blog that is. (DrugMonkey)
  • So, you like blogosphere discussion, do you Nature? (DrugMonkey)

Chimps

• How strong is a chimpanzee? (Slate / John Hawks)
• Muscle markings, chimpanzees, and Neanderthals (John Hawks)
• Marta’s (good) questions, Greg’s (oft’ lame) answers: Bonobos? (Greg Laden)

Genetics

• Estonians are not like Finns (Gene Expression)

Linguistics

• Decay processes of language lexicons (John Hawks)

Programming

• The bad apple: group poison (Coding Horror)
• Who’s your coding buddy? (Coding Horror)
• Paying down your technical debt (Coding Horror)

Research life

• Good writing needs editing (Uncertain principles)
• Zotero 1.5 Beta and more (The quantum pontiff)
• Breaking out of “the last bastion of indentured servitude” (I was lost but now I live here)
• Not dead, overloaded (Byte size biology)

Statistics

• Why I don’t like so-called Bayesian hypothesis testing (Statistical modeling)

Teaching / popularisation of science

• Some displays of evolutionary trees are much better than others (Statistical modeling)
• Danish science journalism meeting to focus on framing (Framing science)
• Problems with pacing in a large lecture course (ScienceWomen)
  • On Sciencewoman’s teaching experience and pacing of lectures (Neurotopia v 2.0)

The IT of NGS

• 1000 human genomes ! How !#@$* do you manage 1000 genomes ??! (Yokofakun)
• Three themese from AGBT and ABRF Part III: The IT problem (Finchtalk)

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