January 2010
22 posts
Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?
or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis
by Y. Lazebnik
Melster pointed me to this fantastic article that compares the way that biologists and engineers formalize their approaches to complex problems.
The pdf of the file can be found and downloaded here or you can read it in html form here.
I’m currently massively busy being a first year biology grad student, so a critique of the...
Badger tickling: proceed with caution →
Marine Biology: Deep-Sea Pacific Crustacean Eats...
Found a very interesting article in Marine Biology about Munidopsis andamanica, a pacific squat lobster which consumes terrestrial cellulosic material which falls to the bottom of the ocean.
Using specialized mouthparts and symbiotic bacteria to digest the wood, these organisms play a key role in the environments created by wood falls. I strongly recommend that you read some more about this very...
Egypt: Where med students think masturbation... →
Israel's "Auto Kill Zone" →
Doesn’t actually say whether target acquisition and action is automated… Anyway, it is interesting.
I sincerely hope to not hear too many people proposing we use a similar scheme at the Mexican border. Of course, idiots have been saying it for at least a decade in Arizona, I just don’t want it to come up anymore.
Bono, you are a prat. →