low-throughput

The Pareto principle , widely known as 80-20 rule, has been used, abused and ridiculed innumerable times. Perhaps the funniest joke involvi...

I am getting tired of constant rewriting of my CV. (Not that I did any this year, you understand, but this is besides the point.) But then,...

Ten years ago or so, I attended the lecture of Sydney Brenner . And what a treat it was. He managed to keep the audience’s attention for an...

In one of Friends episodes , Ross is getting tenure and is very excited about it. (You can tell that the series was drawing to the end.) ...

In her brave, honest and funny book, The Wisdom of Whores , Elizabeth Pisani kicks a lot of asses and sacrifices quite a few sacred cows “o...

From the Weasel Words Website by Don Watson: networking To exchange business cards, glances etc. Have a drink, take tea, dine with. ...

From The Ape and the Sushi Master by Frans de Waal : Instead of marching onward with perfect vision, science stumbles along behind lea...

The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out is a collection of Richard Feynman ’s short works. Perhaps the most famous of these is his 1974 Caltech...

Earlier this month, Sue Keogh gave a seminar entitled “ Seven Steps to Great Web Copy ” at the EBI. Good thing that EBI Interfaces publis...

Drug Design: Cutting Edge Approaches , published in 2002, is a collection of highly enlightening reviews, even if some of the approaches ma...