Money and Finance
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Why Warren Buffett's son isn't the heir apparent [H/T Will] (LINK)Related book: Berkshire Beyond BuffettAndrew Smithers: Quantitative easing and the Tokyo market (LINK) John Kay: Why do we welcome innovation to products more readily than...
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- The Cancer Lobby – By Nicholas Kristof
WHO knew that carcinogens had their own lobby in Washington? Don’t believe me? Just consider formaldehyde, which is found in everything from nail polish to kitchen countertops, fabric softeners to carpets. Largely because of its use in building materials,...
- John Endler's Guppy Discovery
This experiment is one of my favorite studies mentioned in The Greatest Show on Earth. It also makes an appearance in Tim Harford’s book, Adapt. When evolutionary biologist John Endler began studying Trinidad's wild guppies in the 1970s, he was...
- Naked Mole Rat Genome May Point Way To Long, Healthy Life
Since Charlie Munger has talked about the naked mole rat, I figured this was fitting. Found via the Naked Capitalism blog. This comment from Yves Smith after she linked to this article was interesting: “Yes, but I saw Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control....
Money and Finance
Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis – By Y. Lazebnik
A quote from this article that I think relates to investing: “It becomes slowly apparent that even if the anticipated gold deposits exist, finding them is not guaranteed. At this stage, the Chinese saying that it is difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat, comes to mind too often. If you want to continue meaningful research at this time of widespread desperation, David said, learn how to make good tools and how to keep your mind clear under adverse circumstances.”
This article by Yu. Lazebnik, Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis has already been published in English (Cancer Cell, 2002, 2, 179-182) and in Russian (Uspekhi Gerontologii, 2003, No. 12, 166-171). Nevertheless, we have undertaken its secondary publication in our journal for two reasons: first, our journal has different readers, and, second, the great significance of this manifest of Yuri Lazebnik. The author in bright and clever form shows the emerging necessity to create formalized language designed to describe complicated systems of regulation of biochemical processes in living cells. The article is published with permission of Cancer Celland Uspekhi Gerontologii.
This article by Yu. Lazebnik, Can a Biologist Fix a Radio? or, What I Learned while Studying Apoptosis has already been published in English (Cancer Cell, 2002, 2, 179-182) and in Russian (Uspekhi Gerontologii, 2003, No. 12, 166-171). Nevertheless, we have undertaken its secondary publication in our journal for two reasons: first, our journal has different readers, and, second, the great significance of this manifest of Yuri Lazebnik. The author in bright and clever form shows the emerging necessity to create formalized language designed to describe complicated systems of regulation of biochemical processes in living cells. The article is published with permission of Cancer Celland Uspekhi Gerontologii.
- Links
Why Warren Buffett's son isn't the heir apparent [H/T Will] (LINK)Related book: Berkshire Beyond BuffettAndrew Smithers: Quantitative easing and the Tokyo market (LINK) John Kay: Why do we welcome innovation to products more readily than...
- Factory Of Life
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms and then working...
- The Cancer Lobby – By Nicholas Kristof
WHO knew that carcinogens had their own lobby in Washington? Don’t believe me? Just consider formaldehyde, which is found in everything from nail polish to kitchen countertops, fabric softeners to carpets. Largely because of its use in building materials,...
- John Endler's Guppy Discovery
This experiment is one of my favorite studies mentioned in The Greatest Show on Earth. It also makes an appearance in Tim Harford’s book, Adapt. When evolutionary biologist John Endler began studying Trinidad's wild guppies in the 1970s, he was...
- Naked Mole Rat Genome May Point Way To Long, Healthy Life
Since Charlie Munger has talked about the naked mole rat, I figured this was fitting. Found via the Naked Capitalism blog. This comment from Yves Smith after she linked to this article was interesting: “Yes, but I saw Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control....