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From the CDC:

We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via Zombie Preparedness; and as our own director, Dr. Ali Khan, notes, “If you are generally well equipped to…

Andrew Huxley (right) passed away on May 30th at age 94.

Above is a BBC interview with Hodgkin and Huxley shot in my living room in 1985. Wolpert does an excellent job introducing…

For small things, I pick vendors based on a few key criteria, the biggest one is how easy it is to find what I want on their web site. (The other factors are delivery…

The Labrigger editorial team was a little disappointed in the consistently excellent xkcd when the recently posted list of approximations included:
Number of seconds in a year = 75^4 (accurate to 1…

Nature has a special issue on the future of PhDs. It’s no secret that unlike the US MD program, PhD programs are not regulated and produce way more PhDs than there are jobs for PhDs.

The articles in the issue offer some suggestions. Many seem straightforward and pragmatic, such as studying the demand for PhDs…

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Sebastian Seung has a new book out, and to promote it he’s having a debate with Tony Movshon. The event sold out in less than two hours. So they added a…

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