Can Bioinformatic Analysis Save Greece from Bankruptcy?
You are possibly aware that European countries are going through a major financial crisis. For those who are not, following video provides a good summary of what is at stake. After all other options...
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Why the Nobel Peace Prize is an Insult to Ordinary Europeans’ Intelligence
Media and blogosphere had been full of buzz about Nobel peace prize awarded to European Union, with questions ranging from who would attend the Stockholm ceremony to receive the award check to whether...
View ArticleDrowned Subway System and Interest Rate Swaps
NY Subway May Take Weeks to Restore Service, 5 Million Affected; 80 Flooded Homes Destroyed by Fire; Stunning Flood and Fire Images Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. People around...
View ArticleBioinformatics versus Real Life
We asked few days back – If you want to measure GC of a genome of size 300 million bp, and computing is so expensive that checking each nucleotide costs $3, what is the most logical solution? The...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Die Today?
A Meaningful Speech ‘Everybody knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently,’ Morrie said. ‘So we kid ourselves about death,’ I (Mitch) said. ‘Yes, but...
View ArticleThe Myth of American Meritocracy
Here is an interesting article on admission policies at elite universities of USA. Key points * Most ‘elite’ US universities treat Asians badly, Yale and Harvard being the worst. * Caltech and MIT are...
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