Hyperlinked Contents

In order to more easily access the material on this site, I’m creating this table of contents in a loose outline. As of Early January 2014, I am just starting to catalog my material here, so please come back again later to see if you can find new(old) material. Please let me know if you find any errors / bad links, etc.

I.              Science
                A.             General

• One snake or two?
• Fred Sanger: the giant of genomics
• A Photoautotrophic Animal
• Coffee or Espresso?

                B.             Biology

1. One base at a time…
2. The Human Genome… genes on chromosomes
3. Splice Variants
4. Signal sequence and translation of secreted or membrane-bound proteins
5. I Think…    but I do not Know
6. A thoughtful article on the use and abuse of antibiotics
7. Epidemiology
8. Milk and Oreo Cookies (on Lactose Intolerance)
9. This week in General Bio: Diffusion and Osmosis
10. Systemic circulation and pulmonary circulation
11. Getting Oxygen Where It’s Needed
12. Speaking of Blood Types
13. Mitosis Animation
14. A look into cell division
15. Chemiosmosis and the work of Peter Mitchell
16. RNA World and the Origin of Life
17. Biotic Potential – Unrestricted Growth
18. Photosynthesis: Turning CO2 into O2 – or maybe not.
19. “Life is nothing but an electron looking for a place to rest”
20. Cool Virtual lab for my Micro Students
21. Kreb’s Cycle, the Lehrer Way
22. Evolution and Natural Selection
    • Evolution animated
    • Population Genetics and A Modest Proposal
23. Gene Regulation
    • The Lac Operon
24. Drift
25. Tumors
    • Devilish Tumors
    • Cell Division, Contact Inhibition and Cancer
26. Immunology

• Using Antibodies as vaccine delivery vehicles
• Magic Bullets
• Three posts on Antigen Presentation
• Antigen Presentation #1: Macrophages
• Antigen Presentation #2: B Cells 
• Antigen Presentation #3: MHC Class I
• Immunology’s ‘dihybrid cross’ : Antibody response to different antigen
• Herd Immunity
• Another Measles Outbreak puts 2013 on course for another peak year

                C.             Physics               

                D.             Chemistry

• All I know about is a bunch of damn gangs that live in a round neighborhood
• Venus Flytrap explains the atom (same as above)

                E.              Scientific Method / Skepticism

• 1023: The Limit of Credulity
• Dawkins and Chopra
• What can we prove?

II.            Personal
                 A.             Movies

•  Link to 100 Films in 100 Days
• Ahhh. Something good at last
• One day, two bad movies
• The Omen

                  B.             Book Reviews

• Vitamin Supplements: Vital? or Rubbish? 
• Finished Dr. Sleep; Started The Invention of Air

                   C.             Music Reviews

• Don’t Know Dorothy’s Debut EP, Above My Head easily a winner
• Friday Night in the Listening Booth

III.          Observations

• Who isn’t fascinated by Ötzi?
• Why is this the image the public has of biotech?
• Poor Science Communication endangers public health
• It’s not just the caffeine (a video post)
• An interesting question

IV.          Education

• This is not a game: Why gamification is becoming a multi-billion dollar way to motivate people
• Paul Offit’s Vaccine class
• Finishing Offit’s Vaccine Course
• The question we gotta ask is:   “Is our kids learning?”
• Experimental Flaws -Uncontrolled variables
• Your Inner Fish on PBS
• iBooks
  • Mythic Chemistry: The Thirteenth Labor of Heracles 
  • The Thirteenth Labor of Heracles Released on Apple Bookstore

V.         Programming

• iOS and mac development: Apple’s Provisioning Profiles
• Getting into the Apple App Store
• More on Provisioning and Contracting through oDesk
• Programming Mastermind in Javascript: An Outline
• Objects and Methods
• Mastermind: A Function to Compare Guess to Answer
• Mastermind: Function to Accept guess from user
• Mastermind: Function to Generate a Secret Code
• Mastermind: Function to get numeral range for Secret Code
• Mastermind: Function gets number of secret code digits from user
• Full Code: Javascript Code for Mastermind
• Can I use mastermind to make something real?

(note to self: resume at page 6/23)