It is Friday, and I was talking with a colleague on the terrace of the staff club. It was a lovely evening, and for some reason we ended up chatting up about the modelling that is done in places like the City of London. The math they use there is pretty much the same that […]
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As this is a blog, maybe a suitable topic for a post is doing scientific research, or slightly more accurately, reviewing scientific research, by blog. In December 2010, NASA-funded scientists published a paper in Science. In an article, a senior NASA administrator said “The definition of life has just expanded,”. The response in blogs of scientists […]
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In this weeks’s Nature there is an article on X-chromosome silencing. This sounds very technical, and it is, but it has fun consequences, namely tortoiseshell cats (and tortoiseshell-and-white or calico cats, as seen in the picture). You may know that tortoiseshells are almost always females, but you probably don’t know why.
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I was in Zurich last week, attending a workshop at ETH (= Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, the university Albert Einstein went to). I enjoyed it. It was quite a small conference, around 30 people, allowing for lots of informal chatting about people’s results and what are the outstanding problems.
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