24-year-old biologist and PhD candidate in neuroscience at Uppsala Universitet, Sweden. Interests include evolution, neuroscience, music, drawing & painting, the internet and that strange and wonderful place where they all meet.
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I've gone to at least one of the Nobel lectures here in Uppsala every year for some years now, but in the last few years they've scheduled them on weekends, which sucks, and right now I have a ton of things that need to get done here at home. Luckily...
Right now a graduate course in statistics is taking up a lot of my time, so this quote seems only appropriate.
... it is not the business of science to discover 'truth', because 'truth' cannot be judged to be such, in any absolute way. To put it...
... On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. A momentous day for humanity to commemorate, no question, and one of the reasons this year is celebrated worldwide as Darwin year, along with the bicentennial of his birth....
I just went and got vaccinated for the influenza A/H1N1/swine flu here at work. They're skipping schools and universities ahead of everyone else seeing as most of us here are young people who have no previous immunity to this particular type of...
It's yet another great Nobel season for biology! This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for the isolation and crystallization of ribosomes, and the elucidation of their structure...