It has become apparent to me that I’m taking too many classes. I’m going to drop one tomorrow or the next day. The homework is swamping me, and I’m not getting any research done. This is also why I haven’t been posting much lately — no time to spare for the blog. I’ve been unsubscribing [...]

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My lab workstation (a PowerBook G4 17″) was upgraded yesterday with 2GB of RAM. Observe!

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After all of the drama, including some developments I posted about recently, Guidant has chosen to merge with Boston Scientific (warning, their page renders poorly on Firefox) over Johnson and Johnson, after J&J opted not to raise their bid any further. Many news outlets are reporting on the details.

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Hubmed Page: Reentry in heterogeneous cardiac tissue described by the Luo-Rudy ventricular action potential model (with abstract)
The primary focus of this article is the effect of a gradient of action potential duration (APD) on spiral wave dynamics. The authors ran several simulations of a spiral wave using the Luo-Rudy I ionic model, and tracked [...]

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“The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.” Eric Lipton, White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers, New York Times, [...]

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