My wife and I like to joke that stores do their market research by figuring out what we like a lot and then discontinuing those items. That’s how I feel about Apple’s decision a couple of iOS upgrades ago to decouple Podcasts and iTunes U from Music. I like to listen to podcasts. I listen to […]
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Human subjects and education research
At Retraction Watch, there’s a story of a paper about ethics training retracted due to IRB human subjects protocol problems. We tend to think of human subjects research as involving things like drug trials, but a lot of it is things like this: This was an IRB-approved paper-pencil study investigating how certain features of ethics […]
Genomes and phenomes
Via Jonathan Eisen, NSF is using a wiki to get input on genomes and phenomes BIO seeks community input on Genomes-Phenomes research frontiersJohn Wingfield, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO), is pleased to announce the posting of a Wiki to seek community input on the grand challenge of understanding the […]
Updating to Mavericks Server
We have a mini that we got to support a program to train undergrads in bioinformatics. Over the past week or so I’ve been working on updating it to run Mavericks and Mavericks Server. I first decided to go with OSX servers back when I had a G5 blade running Panther Server for the user-friendly GUI […]
Rescuing US biomedical research from its systemic flaws
That’s the title of a new opinion piece in PNAS (pdf). I’m using this post to gather links to other people’s thoughts on this (I may or may not opine myself later) Derek Lowe Mike the Mad Biologist Drug Monkey Neurocritic phys.org homlog.us says central planning is the problem More as I find them….
Open source communities are different
Via Althouse, Farhad Manjoo argues in the NYT that Brendan Eich had to resign because: Mozilla is not a normal company. It is an activist organization. Mozilla’s primary mission isn’t to make money but to spread open-source code across the globe in the eventual hope of promoting “the development of the Internet as a public resource.” As […]
Does OKCupid know…
…that Brendan Eich invented Javascript? Not much to add to what these people said
Whiteboard restoration
The whiteboard in my office is pretty bad in terms of being actually erasable. Trying this trick of using WD-40 to fill the pores. Seems to work ok. Don’t spray as much as I did; a little goes a long way.
Shrimp and grits for Christmas Dinner
Basing in on this recipe from Anson Mills, although we didn’t see their grits at HEB, so I’m using a yellow grits/polenta corn product. Grits: Presoak in water starting at 1:45. Cook with lots of stirring and adding more water. Add salt about halfway through.Add butter and black pepper at the end. Is this grits […]
Sous vide beets
Partly this is because these pictures look so good, and partly because I want to try sealing with liquids in the ThriftyVac. Preheat Nomiku to 82°C (=179.6°F, close enough to 180 for other root veg recipes) I peeled and cut the beets in half so they would fit better in the 1 qt ziploc bags. […]