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Archive for April, 2008

Long-Shot

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Sciencedebate is a non-partisan campaign to make science an issue in the 2008 debate. I signed the petition and have even sent them a check. Do I think this will actually happen? Not really. Our elections tend to be focused on emotions and image, not rational discourse. Our Founding Fathers, being men of the enlightenment, […]

When I Get Time, I’m Going to Write My Own Damn Molecular Biology Toolkit

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

I’ve had it with the molecular biology software that is available. It’s clunky, buggy and poorly designed. Often this crap is proprietary and expensive.
This leads to people resisting buying upgrades… leading people to use ancient Macintosh software written for the 68020 processor on an Intel Mac. When it doesn’t work (since Apple killed 68k […]

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