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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: 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...
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Scientific curiosity: 12/01/2006 - 01/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Saturday, December 23, 2006. An Example Of Altruism? This instance has been noted as a true act of altruism by any definition since the chimpanzee was not of relation to the researcher (not in the last 1000 years at least) and this act was a cost to itself with no benefit. Therefore, I stand corrected on the notion of altruism.it seems to exist after all. Tuesday, December 19, 2006. Why We Should Always Question. So why the myth began. Unive...
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Scientific curiosity: A layman’s tutorial to the dark side II
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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...
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Scientific curiosity: 04/01/2007 - 05/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Saturday, April 14, 2007. New Hope For Infertility. In July 2006, Prof Nayernia. Published a paper in Developmental Cell where he showed that he and colleagues had created sperm cells from mouse embryonic stem cells and used these to fertilise mice eggs, resulting in seven live births. Now, he has published in Gamete Biology another breakthrough paper. A team of scientist lead by Professor Nayernia. Cells While in most men, the spermatogonial.
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Scientific curiosity: 03/01/2007 - 04/01/2007
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An attempt to answer questions with a scientific frame of mind. Thursday, March 29, 2007. Longevity- What needs improvement? Robert N. Butler, and Bruce A. Carnes. Ask a simple question, What if Humans were designed to last? In the latest issue of The Scientist. Maturity in the face of a hostile environment and the toxic debris that the. I particularly like that the authors say,. Our goal is not to create new methods of combating disease, but rather, to. And then working to make it so. What do you think?
