Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
How Cancer Begins
by Dan on May 12, 2008
Every major field has its leading thinkers, and the biology of cancer is no different. What makes their impact heard better is when one of those leaders writes a book about it. Given my interest in molecular biology of cancer, (read on...)
Defining Life Itself
by Dan on May 5, 2008
What is this thing called 'Life?' One popular game in the relevant area of philosophy is to provide robust counter examples, which reveal failures in operational definitions of life. Failed attempts include physiological, (read on...)
Enduring Grant Writing Edits
by Dan on May 1, 2008
Staying in science - getting funding and getting peer reviewed - is tough.
That's one of my main gripes with creationist simpletons who imply that scientists are uncritical of their peers, and that criticism is directed solely (read on...)
What is your Life Changing Book?
by Nick on April 23, 2008
Leading scientists in a variety of fields gave their recommendations on life changing books at New Scientist yesterday. This makes pretty interesting reading - and certainly throws up some ideas for adding to your (read on...)
Genome Structure and Modularity
by Dan on March 20, 2008
A minireview recently in Genomics caught my eye with the title Coexpression, coregulation, and cofunctionality of neighboring genes in eukaryotic genomes that sounded just like a passage that I recalled from Richard Dawkins' The (read on...)
Top 5 Books from Experimental Biology
by Dan on February 27, 2008
I just got done reading Ernst Mayr's The Growth of Biological Thought, which is on the history and philosophy of biology, from Aristotle to ~1980 (written in 1982). Of particular interest to me was the section on the Modern (read on...)
Quickly Boost Your Writing Skills
by Nick on January 29, 2008
Reports, grant applications, theses, manuscripts, essays, patent applications, your Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
As a scientist, there are so many things you have to write. And writing them well is important. Writing clearly (read on...)
The Math of Free Will
by Dan on January 10, 2008
One of the common arguments from religionists against scientific determinism is that of Free Will. Clearly, we humans possess the capacity for making choices, and have some influence over the direction of our lives. Our cells, (read on...)
