I came upon this poem in “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Part 1″ by Karl R. Popper. It is of course, much older than that work, its author, Critias, living from 460 to 403 BCE.
I think one could read much into this poem these days, and it bears several interpretations.

Then came, it seems, that [...]

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The thing that makes our research difficult, the main reason we need big, powerful computers, is a system of a equations known as the “Cardiac Bidomain Equations”. They are a way of representing both the insides and outsides of cells, as well as the membrane in-between, throughout a piece of tissue. A former member of [...]

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There’s a relatively new service available on the interwebs at PublicationsList.org. It’s basically Cite-U-Like specifically tailored for on person’s papers — your own.
You can import common bibliographic formats such as RefWorks and Bibtex, and for those in the medical field, directly search for and add papers from PubMed. It then appears (though I haven’t [...]

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retorno a la unidad

Originally uploaded by cocoronela

Translations welcome.

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The other shoe has dropped! If you missed his first bit on derivation, it’s here. Please make sure to let him know if anything is unclear, regardless of your level of mathiness.

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