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  • Scientific Clearing House http://sciencehouse.wordpress.com/

    In the past, scholars could gather in coffee houses and talk about the latest scientific or mathematical discoveries. The goal of Scientific Clearing House is to provide a venue for such discourse.

LATEST ARTICLES ( 294 )

  • Why Science is Hard to Believe

    Here is an excerpt from a well written opinion piece by Washington Post columnist Joel Achenbach:Washington Post: We live in an age when all manner of scientifi... Read more

    Posted on 15 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Plants: from Roots to Riches

    I highly recommend this podcast series from BBC on the history and science of plants, narrated by Kathy Willis, director of science at Kew Gardens. I’ve been... Read more

    Posted on 11 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • The Tragic Life of Walter Pitts

    Everyone in computational neuroscience knows about the McCulloch-Pitts neuron model, which forms the foundation for neural network theory. Read more

    Posted on 10 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Open Source Software for Math and Science

    Here is a list of open source software that you may find useful.  Some, I use almost every day, some I have not yet used, and some may be so ubiquitous that... Read more

    Posted on 08 February 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Selection of the Week

    Here is “Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March” from Richard Wagner’s opera Gotterdammerung of the Ring Cycle played by the London Philharmonic conducted by... Read more

    Posted on 31 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Selection of the Week

    The twentieth century’s greatest pianist Vladimir Horowitz (arguments?) plays Domenico Scarlatti’s Keyboard Sonata in B minor, K. 87.  Baroque composers... Read more

    Posted on 23 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • The Demise of the American Cappuccino

    Demise American Cappuccino

    When I was at post doc at BU in the nineties, I used to go to a cafe on Commonwealth Ave just down the street from my office on Cummington Street. Read more

    Posted on 19 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Selection of the Week

    Here is piece by turn of the last century British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, named after the poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Read more

    Posted on 16 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Sebastian Seung and the Connectome

    The New York Times Magazine has a nice profile on theoretical neuroscientist Sebastian Seung this week. I’ve known Sebastian since we were graduate students in... Read more

    Posted on 11 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Implicit Bias

    The most dangerous form of bias is when you are unaware of it. Most people are not overtly racist but many have implicit biases that can affect their decisions. Read more

    Posted on 08 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Journal Club

    Here is the paper I’ll be covering in the Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, Journal Club tomorrowMorphological and population genomic evidence that huma... Read more

    Posted on 07 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Selection of the Week

    Generally, any European music written before the age of Vivaldi and the Baroque Era is called Early Music.  It is often performed with instruments that are no... Read more

    Posted on 02 January 2015 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • The Liquidity Trap

    Liquidity Trap

    The monetary base (i.e. amount of cash and demand deposits) has risen dramatically since the financial crisis and ensuing recession. Read more

    Posted on 28 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Code Platform Update

    It’s a week away from 2015, and I have transitioned completely away from Matlab. Julia is winning the platform attention battle. It is very easy to code in and... Read more

    Posted on 23 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • New Paper in eLife

    Kinetic competition during the transcription cycle results in stochastic RNA processingAntoine Coulon, Matthew L Ferguson, Valeria de Turris, Murali Palangat,... Read more

    Posted on 19 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Ideas on CBC Radio

    Ideas Radio

    One of the most intellectually stimulating radio shows (and podcasts) is Ideas with Paul Kennedy on CBC radio. It basically covers all topics. Many of the... Read more

    Posted on 19 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • NIH Stadtman Investigator

    The US National Institutes of Health is divided into an Extramural Program (EP), where scientists  in universities and research labs apply for grants, and an... Read more

    Posted on 07 December 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Race Against the Machine

    One of my favourite museums is the National Palace Museum (Gu Gong) in Taipei, Taiwan. It houses part of the Chinese imperial collection, which was taken to... Read more

    Posted on 12 November 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • Crawford Prize

    The SIAM activity group on dynamical systems is seeking nominations for the J.D. Crawford Prize. J.D. was a marvelous applied mathematician/theoretical physicis... Read more

    Posted on 08 November 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE

  • How Does the Cortex Compute?

    Gary Marcus, Adam Marblestone, and Thomas Dean have an opinion piece in Science this week challenging the notion of the “canonical cortical circuit”. They have ... Read more

    Posted on 06 November 2014 BIOLOGY, SCIENCE