If you read a lot of scientific papers, or I guess academic papers really, and you care about where the information is coming from, you develop a habit.
I guess I, have developed a habit. I can’t speak for others but I think it’s fairly common.
That habit is to look for references whenever an assertion is [...]

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I have a couple of pairs of iPod headphones. One of them is a set of lanyard headphones for the nano, which I absolutely love. It keeps me almost entirely cord-free. They’re great for listening to podcasts while walking around town, listening to music at work, or whatever.
Today, I found them to be affected by [...]

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I love reading xkcd. It appeals to my nerdish side. However, normally I keep xkcd comics to myself, or post them on my LiveJournal. Not today. Today’s xkcd is perfectly fit for a cardiac electrophysiology blog. And here it is:

Hehehe. I won’t be incorporating that into my research, sadly.

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Sorry for the clichéd title, I couldn’t help it. Here in Baltimore, there’s a “bike project” called Velocipede. There are two main aspects to this project.

The Co-op
The “Bike Shop”

The co-op part is that they have a full complement of bicycle maintenance tools, which you can use to repair your bike. There are also a [...]

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Molly just pointed me to a predator-prey type analysis of zombie populations and efficiency at killing and consuming humans.
I think this should become the standard for differential equations and epidemiology courses, rather than foxes and rabbits or something totally lame like that.
After students grasp that, I think you could have them move on to a [...]

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