As many of you already know, funding for basic research in Canada is under a lot of pressure. The future does not look very good as far as I can’t tell. A group of colleagues in the mathematical sciences from across Canada have started a very interesting blog on any issues related to funding and [...]
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Canadian science minister, evolution, budget and more
I am sure many of you have seen this already as it happened a week ago already but I thought I would post this as it was published in Nature. Click here to see the original article. Of course I am not going to comment on the belief or disbelief of our minister. But I [...]
The perfect penalty kick!
Well, here is a break from computational biology. Scientists have discovered the secret of the perfect penalty kick. The formula is “hit the ball at a speed of at least 65mph and aim for one of the top corners.” Well this is really a breakthrough I would say. Until today I thought it was better [...]
