Archive

2017

Responses to James Damore's Google "Manifesto" — August 12, 2017

2016

At Dinner — June 10, 2016
Writing code and prose — January 31, 2016

2013

2013 in review — December 31, 2013
Physician career satisfaction vs. salary — April 30, 2013
Quick BibTeX capitalization-preserving one-liner — March 29, 2013
Switching from R to Python — March 26, 2013
Publication Bias — February 27, 2013
Showing your work — February 26, 2013
Aaron Swartz, RIP — January 12, 2013
More science solves everything — January 02, 2013
Looking back at 2012 — January 01, 2013

2012

Marcia Angell, the Bad Penny — December 03, 2012
Really neat elections timeline — October 15, 2012
Ask Patents — September 20, 2012
Simple Bash virtualenvwrapper — August 27, 2012
Tyler Cowen's Unusual Final Exam — August 21, 2012
Strange numbers — August 09, 2012
Private Sharing on Mac OS X — August 07, 2012
Apple v. Samsung — August 06, 2012
Do more in CoffeeScript — August 03, 2012
Let (and make) men chip in — August 03, 2012
A paired Dirichlet test — August 02, 2012
The game theory of the Olympic badminton forfeits — August 02, 2012
The PhD Job Market — July 11, 2012
The Dirichlet distribution for cell-cycle flow cytometry statistics — July 08, 2012
Softserve.py — June 22, 2012
An Interesting Journal Business Twist — June 12, 2012
"We have John Carmack." — June 07, 2012
iFixit's call to action about the new MacBook Pro — June 06, 2012
Using pylint with Vim QuickFix — May 22, 2012
Tech M and M — May 22, 2012
Punchcards and Terminals — May 15, 2012
BLAS-tuning by hand — May 11, 2012
Flight Control Racket — March 26, 2012
Tau — March 14, 2012
The Voice of Hemingway — March 13, 2012
Gatekeeper — February 16, 2012
I apologize for bugs — February 02, 2012
The Swarm is Coming — February 02, 2012
Artifacts of UNIX History — January 27, 2012
Confucianism is a religion? — January 27, 2012
A chicken hypothesis — January 24, 2012
Carolyn Maloney parroting Elsevier lines — January 16, 2012
Pre-rigor to Rigor to Post-Rigor — January 05, 2012
A new blog format — January 01, 2012

2011

How we think — December 27, 2011
Awesome molecular biology reagent ad — December 23, 2011
Reminder: Tis the Season Not to Be an Ass---Whatever — December 23, 2011
PSA: Stop everything and go watch — December 20, 2011
Science museums for adults — December 12, 2011
Users Know: STFU About What Women Want — December 12, 2011
Low Expectations — December 08, 2011
Selective use of technology---The Endeavour — December 08, 2011
Oblivious Supreme Court poised to legalize medical patents — December 07, 2011
Five Sci-Fi Children's Books That Should be Written — December 07, 2011
The Innumeracy of Educators, or Mark Twain Was Right — December 07, 2011
Don't be a Free User — December 06, 2011
Evolution always wins. Always. — December 06, 2011
The Reason Android is Laggy — December 06, 2011
Evernote Clearly — December 01, 2011
Patient sues dentist over gag order, gets Medical Justice to backtrack — November 30, 2011
Science Experiments for Unimpressed Kids: Surface Tension — November 30, 2011
Weekly links roundup — November 16, 2011
Weekly links roundup — November 07, 2011
More evidence for diseases of protein misfolding — October 07, 2011
Stephen Wolfram on Steven Jobs — October 06, 2011
Andy Grove's Idea For Opening Up Clinical Trials — September 28, 2011
Bodycount is out now, it's $60, and it's terrible — August 31, 2011
Doctor Who Definitions, part 203 — August 31, 2011
Comics for Beginners — August 01, 2011
Pigs Return to Earth: Federal Circuit Reinstates Most---But Not All---of Myriad's Patents — August 01, 2011
Gauss Facts — April 22, 2011
Ars Technica feels Google's stance on H.264 is backwards and hypocritical — January 13, 2011

2010

Is long term solitary confinement torture? — December 31, 2010
Amazon Wins — November 06, 2010
An Introduction to Modern Chemistry: Experimental and Theoretic; Embodying Twelve Lectures Delivered in the Royal College of Chemistry, London. 1866, by A. W. von Hofmann — November 05, 2010
The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald's Burger That Just Won't Rot (Testing Results!) — November 05, 2010
Quintiles' Dennis Gillings Profiled in Forbes — November 05, 2010
Firefighters allow a man's house to burn because he didn't pay the yearly fee — October 05, 2010
Dr James L. Sherley et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius et al. — August 24, 2010
An Apple ][+ music video — May 12, 2010
Square-ing money — May 11, 2010
A Dicer-Independent miRNA Biogenesis Pathway — May 07, 2010
Lunch with a Michelin guide inspector — May 03, 2010
Nature News article on the growing problems of plastic contaminants in the lab — April 24, 2010
A bug hunt — April 09, 2010
The best iPad review so far — April 07, 2010
Well, are plants like humans or not? — April 02, 2010
Pogue's take on the iPad — March 31, 2010
Genomics Law Report summarizes the Myriad decision — March 31, 2010
Genome-wide siRNA timelapse screen for mitosis — March 31, 2010
Myriad's BRCA1/2 diagnostic patents are down for the count — March 31, 2010

2009

Looking at the (microRNA) Stars — November 23, 2009