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Very cool. I can't wait for a more generic data device pairings to these interfaces. I would love them for paragliding, where we have a variometer to track metrics that impact deci…

Someone needs to write a compelling article on "Why to work hard". Just because you should isn't a good enough.

All of these big research universities in CA are on major and active fault lines. My old lab at Cal sat mere hundreds of feet from the Hayward fault that runs through campus. This …

I think we all hoped it wouldn't happen but knew it would.

Try Monterey Market for produce. Really good quality and generally less expensive than Berkeley Bowl, especially for seasonal stuff. But only buy produce.

Depends on whether she has an innate interest or whether you're trying to spark interest, but I think this is the best/most fun way to start any kid with the basics: http://drtechn…

This is the basic science that pays off in the long run. You can't just turn biomedical science projects on and off. It takes time and investment to develop the techniques and tech…

Most of the people interviewed in that video are program officers/administrators at the NHGRI (an institute of the NIH) who oversaw the ENCODE project. They weren't researchers who…

I think that she was referring to the idea that, while many aspects of parenting can (and perhaps should) be equalized between the parents, the fact is that current culture places …

http://www.regardsstudy.org/ Doesn't appear to be published yet, just presented at the SLEEP2012 conference. Ruiter M, Howard VJ, Letter AJ, Kleindorfer D. Short sleep predicts str…

While learning Hadoop is a good idea, if you're bored in grad school, you're doing it wrong.

self-determination (maybe this falls under your excluded values, character traits, or philosophies), but its a rather important skill in my opinion. a second language - doesn't mat…

The new courses are great, but there's something I don't understand about these course websites. I'm doing probabilistic graphical models, but I just want the content to learn, and…

Speaking as a scientist who deals with genomic data, I wholeheartedly agree with many of the comments here. Code and raw data should be available at publication. I shouldn't have t…

Many of these suggestions are being attempted in journals like PLoS One (plosone.org) or through groups like Faculty of 1000 ( http://f1000.com/ ) for commenting/discussion. Many j…

At least for the NIH, they now allow publication costs to be funded in grant applications. Also, many institutions have now set up funds to help offset the open access publication …

For Biomed articles, Pubmed (pubmed.gov) offers free access to articles over a year old as of 2008, and sometimes sooner. Also, I often find it handy to google the full article nam…