Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Science changes the world, sometimes the world changes the science, we are overdue
Dr. Monica Anderson talks about reductionism vs holism in science. She also suggests that artificial intelligence failed because intelligence is too holistic and by its nature it always attracted the hardcore reductionists. One of my favorite quote from this talk [...]
Futurama of science: My Picks
In a recent issue, Scientific journal Nature ran a story about how different scientific disciplines will evolve over next ten years (for interested readers article is freely available here). Nature asked a selected groups of leading researchers and science policy [...]
"Voodoo science" rocks the boat of IPCC
I generally don’t write about climate science and global warming. For me this is a highly controversial topic and I always keep a distance from the discussions related to global warming. Climate change has supporters and skeptics. I am neither [...]
What you call this? Linguistic morphology of chemical names and lost in translation
Here is a real world example how Linguistic morphology of chemical names may have unwanted secondary effects For example, English search engines such as Google and Yahoo! are unable to find “chlorobenzene” by searching for “benzene”. Interestingly, in other languages [...]
Lowering Pharma firewalls: Just for Bioinformatics or Chemoinformatics also
Notion of pre-competitive collaboration has been in under experiment steadily for quite sometime now. Notable examples are the Airbus consortium of European aircraft manufacturers, the Sematech consortium of US semiconductor manufacturers, banks working together to launch Visa and Mastercard, our [...]
Gladwell states as guidlines for a better omics data management
Universal application of high throughput omics technologies have enabled scientists to measure tens of thousands of data points in a single experiment. As a result of this scientific world has become deluged with data. This has greater implications the way [...]
Here Comes Science
They Might Be Giants’ album, Here Comes Science, is collection of thought provoking audio/video content for kids. A musical melody which covers a broad range of topics in science starting from why science is real and why it is so [...]
Stunning images from Wellcome Image Awards
Yesterday Wellcome Trust announced the winners of the tenth Wellcome Image Awards, featuring 19 stunning images. These images are simply incredible, many of them are technically very difficult to achieve and require specific coloring skills. I have just selected a [...]
Big data, Big challenges
Image by Photo Blog 0001 via Flickr Recently New York Times has published a tech article about big data. According the article some of the largest technology companies like I.B.M. and Google think that students from elite American universities students [...]
