This past weekend I attended Hillside Festival in Guelph, Ontario. Apart from a terrific musical line up, the festival prides itself on making as little as possible negative impact on …
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At an open field day at Stanford in 1971, a group of people enacted protein synthesis. The fun part starts at about three and a hlaf minutes into the video. …
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The annual Toronto Fringe theatre festival just came to an end. One of plays at the festival was “The Lab” by Theatre SKAM. It was written and performed by Matthew …
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At Artem Medicalis, Belgian artist Pascale Pollier makes very detailed medical illustrations, of anatomical concepts, or of microscopic images. Most of her work is related to skin pigmentation, and my …
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Nature profiled the top 5 science blogs. They base their list on Technorati rankings. I personally don’t believe in Technorati’s rankings very much anymore after they interpreted 200 incoming links …
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Folding @ Home – help researchers study protein folding
Folding@Home is a project of Stanford University, studying protein folding. The way in which proteins are folded three-dimensionally is crucial to their function. Many mutations that lead to disease are …