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• Richard Azuma, 1930 – 2013

  I was saddened to learn that Richard “Dick” Azuma, who was a professor in the University of Toronto Physics department from 1961 to 1994 and emeritus after that... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• America’s Cup 2013

  Today may be the last race for the America’s Cup yacht series between the US and New Zealand. Here are the highlights from the last race. Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Coase and the Nature of the Firm

  Economist and Noble Laureate Ronald Coase died earlier this month just three months short of his 103rd birthday. Coase is mostly famous for two papers: “The... Read more

  Posted on 12 September 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• TB, Streptomycin, and Who Gets Credit

  The Science Show did a feature story recently about the discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic to treat tuberculosis, which had killed 2 billion... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Population Genetics

  James Lee and I just published a paper entitled “The causal meaning of Fisher’s average effect” in the journal Genetics Research. The paper can be obtained here. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Problem with Democracy

  Winston Churchill once said that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Beware the Vampire Squid

  Before you take that job programming at an investment bank or hedge fund you may want to read Felix Salmon’s post and Michael Lewis’s article on the case of... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Childhood Growth and Obesity

  Kevin D Hall, Nancy F Butte, Boyd A Swinburn, Carson C Chow. Dynamics of childhood growth and obesity: development and validation of a quantitative... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Myth of the Single Explanation

  I think one of the things that tends to lead us astray when we try to understand complex phenomena like evolution, disease, or the economy, is that we have... Read more

  Posted on 30 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Talk at GRC

  I’m currently in Mt. Snow, Vermont to give a talk at the Gordon Research Conference on Computer Aided Drug Design. Yes, I know nothing about drug design. Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper in Nature Reviews Genetics

  A Coulon, CC Chow, RH Singer, DR Larson Eukaryotic transcriptional dynamics: from single molecules to cell populations. Nat Gen Reviews (2013). Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• New Paper on Measuring Gastric Acid Output

  This paper started many years ago when Steve Wank, of the Digestive Diseases Branch of NIDDK, had this idea to use this new wireless PH detecting SmartPill... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Houghton Opines on the Unfairness of Prizes

  I recently wrote about Michael Houghton declining the prestigious Gairdner prize because it left out two critical contributors to the discovery of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Distortion of Thresholds

  The Obama administration has decided to delay by one year the implementation of the employer health care mandate for businesses with more than 50 employees. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Problem with “just Desserts”

  The blogosphere is aflutter over Harvard economist and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to Bush 43, Greg Mankiw‘s recent article “Defending... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Body Weight Simulator iPhone App

  The body weight simulator, originally a web based java application, is now also an iPhone app (see here in iTunes). The simulator is based on the human... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Patent Perspiration Not Inspiration

  Little irks me more than the current state of US patent law. It stifles innovation and encourages patent trolls, the most famous being Nathan Myhrvold’s... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• Genes Can No Longer Be Patented

  The US Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. Here is the link to the New York Times article. The specific case regards Myriad... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Demise of Arbaclofen for Fragile X

  Seaside Therapeutics has recently announced that they would be withdrawing their Fragile X drug Arbaclofen (STX209) from further clinical trials (see here). Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

• The Failure of Science Museums (and Some Radio Shows)

  Three years ago, I posted my ambivalence about science museums. I recently accompanied my seven year old on a field trip to one and now I am of the firm belief... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE