low-throughput

some random thoughts and quotes about organised (and disorganised) science

Thursday, 27 September 2012

the end of the world as we know it?

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I don’t think so. Not this year anyway. Instead, we have the next best worst £!@#$%* thing. Today, the Spanish government announced it...
Saturday, 21 July 2012

editing the uneditable

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My classes were not going that well . And so, some time last month, in a moment of weakness (which lasted couple of days actually), I sent ...
Saturday, 9 June 2012

Einstein was right, so what?

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I don’t know about you, but I am really disappointed with the “news” that neutrino , after all, does not exceed the speed of light. Accordi...
Saturday, 26 May 2012

putting the spheres back into tetrahedra

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This post has its roots in a discussion during the coffee-time, inspired by an almost empty jar of condensed milk. It seemed obvious that s...
Thursday, 17 May 2012

dead don't read emails

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Over the last twenty or so years, I have changed several email addresses. Not too many — less than my postal addresses, in fact. It’s not a...
Tuesday, 15 May 2012

Hottabych principle

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Two Young Pioneers , Volka and Zhenya, take the old genie Hassan Abdul-rahman ibn Khattab, aka “ Hottabych ”, to the football match. As the...
Friday, 9 March 2012

against intellectual property

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From Against Intellectual Property by Brian Martin: Few scientists complain that they do not own the knowledge they produce. Indeed, th...
Saturday, 21 January 2012

an absolute sinecure

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From Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams : Indeed, it was not entirely clear if Reg had ever taught anybody at al...
Friday, 30 December 2011

sniff talks to the professor

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From Comet in Moominland by Tove Jansson : “But how do you know that the Observatory is on that peak especially?” asked Sniff, craning ...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011

to collaborate or not to collaborate

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A few quotes from a fascinating new book, Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research (Wiley, 2011): Even within...
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