Evidence for Evolution

Kevin Padian's Web site @ http://www.sciohost.org/ncse/kvd/Padian/Padian_transcript.html#class

On Cancer Treatments

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/research/29cancer.html, please pay special attention to the comments

and

http://www.gutsense.org/crc/crc_colonoscopy.html

Perspectives on Cyber-Security

http://www.cfr.org/publication/20562/cybersecurity.html

http://www.cfr.org/publication/21052/prioritizing_us_cybersecurity.html?breadcrumb=%2Fpublication%2Fby_type%2Finterview

http://www.cfr.org/publication/21054/capability_of_the_peoples_republic_of_china_to_conduct_cyber_warfare_and_computer_network_exploitation.html

http://csis.org/category/topics/technology/cybersecurity

Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation

In an article titled "Lessons from 60 years of pharmaceutical innovation" by Bernard Munos in the Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 8, 959-968 (December 2009) we read:

"... by analysing data on the companies that introduced the 1,200 new drugs that have been approved by the FDA since 1950. This analysis shows that the new-drug output from pharmaceutical companies in this period has essentially been constant, and remains so despite the attempts to increase it. ... the new-drug output is not depressed, but may simply reflect the limitations of the current R&D model."

See also the editorial in the same issue, titled "Escaping the pincer"

I wonder about the results of analogous studies in other research areas; physical science, software, etc.

Debugging Rules

This site - http://www.debuggingrules.com/ - contains resources to help debug mostly software and electronic hardware, but other systems as well.

Learn Genetics

Interesting interactive Web site at the University of Utah:

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/

Value of College Education

A Total Cost of Ownership tool for the value of a college education:

www.HumanCapitalScore.com

On World Economy

American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Desmond Lachman writes on lurking dangers to the World Economy in 2010:

http://www.aei.org/docLib/LurkingDangers.pdf

Best Buy

Turning stupidity into money: http://www.geekstir.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/76SC6.jpg

Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

The SEMAT Initiative

From the on-line edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal:

http://www.ddj.com/architect/222001342

Tip: Loading lmhosts File

To load/update the lmhosts file (in : \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ folder)

Open a Command Windows and type:

NBTStat -R

Sunrise from Space

Wearable Motherboards

Research on the design and development of a "Smart Shirt" for Combat Casualty Care has led to the realization of the world's first Wearable Motherboard™ or an "intelligent" garment for the 21st Century.

Learn more @ http://www.gtwm.gatech.edu/.

On RTM

In a letter to the editor of the CrossTalk Magazine, I expressed my views on the Requirements Traceability Matrix. Find the letter @
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2009/11/0911LettertotheEditor.html

Father of MP3 Player

This is surely a case of Life imitating Art - from the story "The Martian Shop" by Howard Fast, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959:

"....it was of pale yellow synthetic...Two slight depressions on the top of this box activated it, a slight touch of one depression to start it, a second touch on the same depression to stop it. The second depression , when touched, changed the category of music desired. There were twenty-two categories of music available...the music box could be compiled out of available technical knowledge, specially since the discovery of transistor electronics...that a content of eleven thousand works was beyond present day knowledge and skill..."

Data Locality Refactoring

Suggestions for locality optimizations (SLO), a cache profiling tool, analyzes runtime reuse paths to find the root causes of poor data locality, and suggests the most promising code optimizations. Refactoring using the hints of the SLO analyzer doubles the average execution speed of several SPEC2000 benchmark programs.

Learn more about it @ http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal/COURSE/READING/ARCH/refactoring%20for%20data%20locality.pdf

and http://www.jilp.org/vol10/v10paper7.pdf

Just Rocks

Scarp Art

Sculptures made out of scrap car parts by Australian artist James Corbett

The 25 Funniest Vintage Tech Ads

http://www.cio.com/article/507352/Priceless_The_25_Funniest_Vintage_Tech_Ads?page=7#slideshow

Famous People Painting

http://cliptank.com/PeopleofInfluencePainting.htm

Click on each person to be directed to the corresponding Wikipedia article.