A real blast from the past, when it took real ingenuity to work out what was going on in DNA.
Good, thoughtful piece from Tracy Durnell about some of the choices she makes to blog. The comment about bits of personal life being interesting, while to much can be, er, too much, is encouraging
Very thoughtful piece from James G., examining his loneliness and, more to the point, how he successfully overcoming some of the patterns of behaviour developed over the past three years. Highly commendable on all fronts.
Interesting to read Ryan’s thoughts about being Not That Online and whether that affects the incredibly handy tools he makes for others. Maybe I’m overthinking my own dilemmas.
This is the exact opposite of my experience, as a certified old fart. I learned to code Fortran on an IBM 370, then we got PDPs and I embraced Basic and later a bit of assembler. Then went dormant for a while so I missed everything. Now catching up.
I wonder what it would take to adapt the WithKnown Twitter plugin to use V2 of the API? Might need to look into that before throwing in the towel completely.
It has been a very long time since my last refereed paper was published, but here we are again. What is Wrong with Biofortification makes the case that staples with enhanced levels of micronutrient are not a good way to tackle micronutrient deficiencies. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gvaP7sxZ%7EFqY4
A battle lost to protect the privacy of website visitors.