When Helping Hurts

When Helping Hurts

As someone who occasionally (or sometimes more than occasionally) says the wrong thing in an attempt to be helpful or comforting of "fix" the situation, I was particularly terrified by a recent…
Systems Biology Has Become Meaningless

Systems Biology Has Become Meaningless

Since when has systems biology been a synonym for genomics? This is from a Perspective piece in the Oct. 2 issue of Science: The relative value of discovery aimed at hypothesis generation versus…
Television content over the Internet

Television content over the Internet

In a recent post on my personal blog, I talked about television content delivery and pricing. What I didn’t mention in that post, particularly when I talked about the lack of choice, is that there is…
Brainshark Presentations Top 25 Million Views

Brainshark Presentations Top 25 Million Views

WALTHAM, Massachusetts, January 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainshark, Inc., the leader in on-demand presentations, today announced a significant company milestone, with cumulative Brainshark presentation…
What's Going On Around

What's Going On Around

I have been lagging behind lately with my usual browsing of other physics blogs. So let me catch up here and suggest a few posts which should be interesting to read. Peter Woit is always an…