07/04/2008
Interview With Atle Selberg
Sticking with the theme of the Riemann Hypothesis, the AMS has recently posted some articles to appear in an upcoming issue of the AMS Bulletin, one of which contains a long interview with Atle Selberg, who died last summer at the age of 90. Selberg had ...
~ published: 07/04 at 14:52 ~ source: Not Even Wrong ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Petabyte Scale Data-Analysis and the Scientific Method
Once again, there's a silly article somewhere, and everyone hammers me with requests to write about it. It's frankly flattering that people seethis sort of nonsense, and immediately think of asking me about it - you folks are going to give me a swelled h...
~ published: 07/04 at 14:05 ~ source: Good Math, Bad Math ~ permalink ~ points: 0
"Walden", evolution and climate change
Elizabeth Pennisi, reporting from the Evolution meetings, has turned in an article about how biologists are using the 19th century plant records of Henry David Thoreau to study how flowering times have changed in 150 years: Many studies have looked at how...
~ published: 07/04 at 13:10 ~ source: John Hawks Anthropology Weblog ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Research sheds light on the molecular basis of crib death
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome [SIDS] is a condition that unexpectedly and unexplainably takes the lives of seemingly healthy babies aged between a month and a year. Now researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, have d...
~ published: 07/04 at 11:08 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Volcanic Activity Shaped Mercury After All
Scientists have long anguished over how little is known about Mercury, the innermost of the four terrestrial planetary bodies in our solar system.read more...
~ published: 07/04 at 10:50 ~ source: Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet. ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Sanger Institute sequences a trillion bases in six months
Genetic Future comments on news from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute:At the current rate (which is rapidly increasing) the Sanger is churning out more DNA sequence every two minutes than was generated by the entire research community from 1982-1987. T...
~ published: 07/04 at 10:03 ~ source: John Hawks Anthropology Weblog ~ permalink ~ points: 0
More Presentation Preparation
We’ve discussed presentation preparation before, but I have one more thing to add: transitioning. For a research presentation, it is substantially helpful for the audience if transitions are clear. A common outline for a research presentation in m...
~ published: 07/04 at 08:01 ~ source: Machine Learning (Theory) ~ permalink ~ points: 0
Resolution of Singularities
Continuing my departure from my usual narrative, I’m going to talk about Resolution of Singularities. This is a very classical topic, and research continues in it to this day. I’ve been interested in singularities for awhile and I’m cu...
~ published: 07/04 at 04:08 ~ source: Rigorous Trivialities ~ permalink ~ points: 0