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Scientific curiosity: 02/01/2008 - 03/01/2008
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Sunday, February 24, 2008. From birds and fish to cells [*]. A physicist’s view of collective transport in biological systems. Let me motivate what I want to say today with a couple of videos. First up, an amateur video of a flock of starlings in. Or see this one. Where the flock cohesively responds to a predator. A Starling is a small bird,. Why would a physicist concern herself with that? Do you see the complex flow patterns they exhibit?
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Scientific curiosity: 06/01/2007 - 07/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Thursday, June 28, 2007. Could life have started with Simplicity? 1] Biochemistry - Stryer. 2] Singularities - de Duve. 3] Wechterheuser - Evolution of the first metabolic cycles - PNAS, 87:200-204, 1990. 4] Wechterheuser - On the chemistry and evolution of the pioneer organism - Chemistry and Biodiversity, 4:584-602, 2007. 5] Orgel - Self-organizing biochemical cycles - PNAS, 97:12503-12507, 2000. 7] Wikipedia entry on Citric acid cycle.
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Scientific curiosity: 08/01/2007 - 09/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Thursday, August 09, 2007. Classification of Protein Structure. How are they so specific in what they do and specific to the reactions that they catalyze? Classification of Protein Structure:. 1] - Biochemistry by Stryer. 2] - Introduction to Protein Structure by Branden and Tooze. 3] - A perspective on enzyme catalysis by Stephen Bankovic and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer. 4] - RCSB protein database. 6] - Multi-domain protein families and domain p...
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Scientific curiosity: From birds and fish to cells [*]
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Sunday, February 24, 2008. From birds and fish to cells [*]. A physicist’s view of collective transport in biological systems. Let me motivate what I want to say today with a couple of videos. First up, an amateur video of a flock of starlings in. Or see this one. Where the flock cohesively responds to a predator. A Starling is a small bird,. Why would a physicist concern herself with that? Do you see the complex flow patterns they exhibit?
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Scientific curiosity: 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Tuesday, July 03, 2007. Scientific Communications in Web 2.0 Context. This is a slightly out of context post that covers, instead of a particular aspect of science, some recent developments that may change the paradigms in scientific communications. Where scientists are being broadly discredited through active political agendas). With a majority written by active science researchers. Recently launched a site called the Nature Precedings.
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Scientific curiosity: 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Friday, January 26, 2007. A Species Concept.How hard could it be? People have thought about the origins of closely related species for decades. In fact, scientific research on speciation can be traced all the way back into the early 19th century. By looking at older literature, we can understand old arguments, as well as, provide us with ideas toward current problems. As you can see, this is not as easy to define as it initially seemed. ...
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Scientific curiosity: 11/01/2007 - 12/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Tuesday, November 20, 2007. A layman’s tutorial to the dark side II. In the previous post. We tried to answer the question “What is dark matter? 8221; In this post, in the same reductionist spirit, we try to answer the question “What is dark energy? The first question you might ask is “Are you sure? 8221; or “How do we know this? 8221; I do not want to discuss red shifts and the Hubble constant here. So I refer you to wikipedia. 2] This is f...
