Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Biological Science changes – so are you always right?
Learning Biology is an evolving process. The science keeps changing towards a greater understanding and sometimes the conclusions that were drawn are not always right. For example, blood letting or bleeding a person used to be the treatment for some diseases. That was an acceptable form of treatment but now we wonder as to what…
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Know the immeasurable in data mining
Data mining has several methods that analyze the data and come to conclusions on the data. The tools are a mixture of statistics, mathematics and reasoning. The tools are very useful and they help in come to conclusions very well. So if you are in the business of selling a commodity to the youth through…
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Additional ways to search in Google, Yahoo or Bing
There are several ways to search for information and often times the easiest is to just type the keyword in a search engine like Google and hope that it would find the article of interest. However, things are not quite simple when you look for things and hundreds of hits come up. For example, if…
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Microarrays and data mining
There are many ways to understand data mining and there are several tutorials on the subject. Dr. Susan Holmes at Stanford has been teaching and practicing different statistical methods and has significant insight into the process of teasing out information from complex data sets. She made an interesting observation in “The Theory that would not…
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Confocal microscopy trending
When you look at this Google trends chart below that is looking for “Confocal microscopy”, what thoughts come to your mind? Is this something that you would want to do or is this something so specialized that it has only limited interest? Or what about the distribution through the world? Is US the only one…
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Membrane permeant probes for infrared imaging
Dr Kai Johnsson has been working in the area of super resolution imaging and has come up with some very useful fluorescent probes for glutamate, switchable flourophores for protein labeling, caged rhodamine derivates among other research on membrane biology. His group just showed another interesting probe that can go inside the membrane and can be…
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Intuitive calculations –loss and profit.
It is known through significant psychological research that humans are very sensitive to loss. That means the sad feeling of loss is much stronger than happiness feeling of gain. This manifests itself in strange ways. For example, in the stock market, the possibility to avoid a loss makes people take wrong decisions – they delay…
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Time technology
Currently the line of thinking is that technology is complex and we need to complex instrumentation and thoughtful experiments over a long period of time before a new technology is created. However, consider time. We take for granted that the clock divides the day into 60 minutes, with 60 seconds per minute and 24 hours…
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Marketing: Adaptation to the market by companies
There is a nice example of a company that adapted its strategy to market in the USA. The company is called SodaStream it received an acknowledgement for being in the 50 best companies by Fast Company. SodaStream realized that if it had to market in the US, then it had to adapt to what Americans…
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Inks – different characteristics but one need.
It is surprising that something has common as ink that we use for writing has been innovated in so many ways but not too many innovations are successful. The purpose of ink, whether in a pen on paper or in printer on paper has been primarily used to display objects on paper and that is…
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