My new favorite web application is the Google Books N-gram viewer, which I first learned about while reading “Uncharted” by Erez Aiden and Michel Jean-Baptiste […]
Reflections
The popular literature on “big data” is still fairly sparse. “Uncharted” by Erez Aiden and Michel Jean-Baptiste is a great addition. While their focus is […]
A great way to get me to read your book is to include “-ome” in the title. I read most popular works on genomics and […]
There is a lot of discussion about “Translational Medicine” but all too often the definition of “translational medicine” is based on technical concepts and terms […]
One of the themes that I will emphasize in #Research is that I believe that research is an act of compassion. This month, October, is […]
Does research matter? There are so many BIG things to worry about right now – jobs, housing, the overall economy, governmental gridlock – that many […]
During my trip to Australia in April of this year (2013), I had visions of animal encounters during my limited amount of free time. Surely […]