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May 31st, 2013

5/31/2013

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A "popular science" piece highly relevant to those who work on transcription factor mutants:
http://www.biotechniques.com/news/biotechniquesNews/biotechniques-343598.html?utm_source=BioTechniques+Newsletters+%2526+e-Alerts&utm_campaign=0c46d0c032-cell-biology-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5f518744d7-0c46d0c032-87700457#.UaZEOetAuhk

Plain fun BS:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_24/caredit.a1300110

When/if you feel like complaining that grading at Temple is too harch, check out how a straight A student from a lesser university felt at Harvard:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_22/caredit.a1300108

Here's one brave dude:
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_17/caredit.a1300107

I guess you have to be pretty special to be admitted to the MD/PhD program at Stanford. 
http://www.nature.com/news/neuroscience-method-man-1.13077

Why cicadas are not a great model organism
http://www.nature.com/news/long-lived-insects-raise-prime-riddle-1.13080

Another good quote: "No success? Try to work harder."
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_31/caredit.a1300115

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May 24th, 2013

5/24/2013

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Fantastic CRISPR stuff:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/497413e.html

This is a must-read for all future scientists. Kinda obvious, but well organized.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/497433a.html

Those who hated Lac operon in Genetics will be happy to know that the man largely responsible for figuring it out has passed away. But these @#$% are not receiving this e-mail :-) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/497440a.html

What a life this guy lived.

OK, so now Facebook is a part of your porfessional portfolio. Seriously.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/nj7450-527c.html

I would have bet that many, many more people were professionally hurt by their facebook profiles than helped, but I guess I am too pre-cloud.

Continuing with the graduation theme: a bit about college costs. I obviously do not agree with half of what's said, but the other half it is absolutely true.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dear-class-of-13-youve-been-scammed-2013-05-17?link=mw_story_kiosk

A different kind of "Shades of gray":
http://www.nature.com/news/shades-of-grey-1.13029

And now even more popular science:
http://www.nature.com/news/double-vision-1.13027

I guess nobody wants to be called a bitch. But if I were a woman, I would have to consider it a professional compliment.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7450/full/nj7450-527d.html

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May 18th, 2013

5/18/2013

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Some people, you can try to compete with. Some others, you just bow and stay out of their way...
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_10/caredit.a1300094
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2013_05_06/caredit.a1300093

Let me just say that practices depicted in this cartoon are unacceptable in our lab as they violate all rules and regulations ;-)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7449/full/497309a.html

I even found a pretty good quote in this article:
"...he who never made a mistake never made a discovery" by Samuel Smiles (never heard of him, so this quote can not displace the quote by a Nobel laureate as my favorite).

An interesting bit on science in Singapore:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7449/full/nj7449-397a.html

Rumor has it, this is how Genetics textbook reads to some bio undergrads: "Spin optics provides a route to control light, whereby the photon helicity (spin angular momentum) degeneracy is removed due to a geometric gradient onto a metasurface."

I did not make it up. I could not. It is the actual abstract intro sentence. From a physics paper.  http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6133/724

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