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Either Science or Nature (I can't find the item now) had a blurb noting that a Chilean observatory will play a prominent role in an upcoming James Bond movie -- the hideout of the villain (original press release here). A bit later in the item it is mentioned...

In case it hasn't been obvious from the occasional post, I am a spaceflight aficionado. As a very young child I watched some of the last moon landings. Many hours of play were spent imagining riding a rocket, playing with toy rockets, and building Lego spaceships....

In general I try to ignore the various bleatings of stock pickers. Given the mountain of evidence in favor of the efficient market hypothesis, claims of successful stock picking should be generally lumped in with schemes for perpetual motion machines.However,...

At the banquet I attended recently, the high school senior I sat next to asked me two very interesting questions about his future education, one I had thought a lot about and one that I hadn't. I'll tackle the first one now: what math should he take in college?My...

Hsien-Hsien is frequently asking 'What's in your DNA?', and a correspondent of mine recently pointed out that "it's in our DNA" is becoming a bit of a corporate cliche. Indeed, there is at least one TV advertising campaign on those lines, though the ad writers...

When the human genome was still terra incognito (or, at least our knowledge of the sequence was something like my view of the world sans my glasses oft mistaken for bulletproof glass), a key question was how many genes were present. It was widely cited by textbooks...

Yesterday while getting my car serviced, I noticed that Toyota's brochure about its latest vehicles says on the back that "Moving Forward is in our DNA," and became annoyed. "X is in our corporate DNA" has become an incredibly popular marketing buzzphrase lately,...

==Receptors: Can't Live With 'Em, Can't Understand 'Em (In the pipeline)==At various points in my drug discovery career, Ive worked on G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets. Most everyone in the drug industry has at some point a significant fraction of...

At various points in my drug discovery career, Ive worked on G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets. Most everyone in the drug industry has at some point a significant fraction of the known drugs work through them, even though we have a heck of a time knowing...