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T. taxus: 05/01/2009 - 06/01/2009
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Tuesday, May 26, 2009. In the Land of Invented Languages. I promise that I'll return to science blogging soon, but I wanted to write something about a book I've just recently read - Arika Okrent's "In The Land of Invented Languages". And after all, linguistics is a science, just not the one I generally write about. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). In the Land of Invented Languages. San Diego, CA, United States. What You...
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T. taxus: 03/01/2009 - 04/01/2009
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Sunday, March 08, 2009. Is the name "Sea Star" more accurate than "Starfish"? It has become common in recent popularizations. 160;to suggest that echinoderms of the family Asteroidea. A taxonomic analysis suggests not. Let's consider stars, the sea, fish, and starfish. How can we compare such diverse entities? These characters can be encoded in a PHYLIP matrix in the following manner. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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T. taxus: Gary Olsen's Talk on Lateral Gene Transfer at SDSU
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Friday, October 08, 2010. Gary Olsen's Talk on Lateral Gene Transfer at SDSU. Who was my Ph.D advisor at the University of Illinois. Gave a talk here in town at SDSU. The listed title was "Lateral Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes", which I was going to kid him about as Gary is a former postdoc of Norm Pace. Codon usage showing the "rabbit head" pattern initially proposed by Médigue. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, CA, Unite...
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T. taxus: 12/01/2012 - 01/01/2013
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Monday, December 31, 2012. As you may have heard, Carl Woese died of pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of 84. I had the honor of working with Carl in grad school at the University of Illinois where my advisor, Gary Olsen, ran a joint lab with Carl. Genomics, metagenomics, and evolutionary biology has lost one of its greats - but his legacy lives on. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). San Diego, CA, United States.
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T. taxus: 12/01/2009 - 01/01/2010
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Tuesday, December 15, 2009. Google Celebrates 150th Birthday of Zamenhof. You may notice that today Google has a little Esperanto flag. This is in celebration of the 150th birthday of L. L. Zamenhof. The creator of the language. Esperanto. Is a fascinating little language, and works as diverse as The Lord of the Rings. And The Origin of Species. Not to mention Volapuk. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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T. taxus: 09/01/2010 - 10/01/2010
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Saturday, September 25, 2010. Bubbly" Pauline and the $1000 genome. I'm currently reading Kevin Davies' new book, "The $1000 Genome". An important next step was to compare the data from Venter and Watson, which was first done by Pauline Ng, a bubbly Venter Institute researcher.". Pauline is a colleague and friend of mine who now leads a group at the Genome Institute of Singapore. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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T. taxus: 09/01/2012 - 10/01/2012
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Tuesday, September 04, 2012. Archaea in "Bizarro" Comic. Just thought today's comic was pretty amusing - even if "an archaeon" would be more grammatically correct. Also, the phrase "primordial soup" is actually from Alexander Oparin. S 1924 work, although Darwin's comments in regard to a "warm little pond" suggest he subscribed to a similar heterotrophic beginning of life. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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T. taxus: Carl Woese 1928-2012
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Monday, December 31, 2012. As you may have heard, Carl Woese died of pancreatic cancer yesterday at the age of 84. I had the honor of working with Carl in grad school at the University of Illinois where my advisor, Gary Olsen, ran a joint lab with Carl. Genomics, metagenomics, and evolutionary biology has lost one of its greats - but his legacy lives on. Http:/ go.illinois.edu/carlwoesememorial. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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T. taxus: 11/01/2009 - 12/01/2009
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Reflections on science, literature, and history by an American Badger. Monday, November 30, 2009. RIP Milorad Pavić (1929-2009). Today Milorad Pavić died at the age of 80. He was the author of numerous novels, in particular the before-its-time hypertext Dictionary of the Khazars. Links to this post. Tuesday, November 24, 2009. Today, 150 years ago, the first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species. So I guess everyone's responsible for their own entertainment on this one. Read in in another language!
