Nature and Imagination
15 years ago when I was getting immersed in computational genomics I had a conversation with my good friend David Lipman. I was observing that when I was working in Artificial Intelligence and Computer...
View ArticleFor aspiring visionaries…
“You have to be a little clueless to be a real visionary”… Simon Kasif — but I don’t recall if I heard/saw this somewhere…
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“There always is a big difference between those who are fashionable and those who truly made a difference”. Zak Kohane.
View ArticleOn scientists and boxers
I just ran into an article in Boston Globe on how John Quack enbush is planning to fight cancer by boxing. Anyway to fight cancer should be a good thing. What provoked me in this article is the quote:...
View ArticleGoodbye to “orgo” ? A new engineering based medical school…
I just learned from Gene Robinson that University of Illinois is opening a new engineering based medical school. This is a novel and interesting development ! I recall as a faculty at Johns Hopkins...
View ArticleTowards “Agile and Lean” Education: Learning about “Learning” from Bacteria
“We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are” Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani, as quoted in the Talmudic tractate Berakhot (55b.) from quotation investigator… Putting this old wisdom together...
View ArticleWisdom from the young generation: We fear “the new”
From BDC WIRE: “Emily Bruell, a valedictorian at Roaring Forks High School in Carbondale, Colorado, delivered a powerful message to her fellow graduates. Objectively, it was about labels. But the...
View ArticleCan conflicting opinions be both right ?
New York Times recently reported that John Paulson donated $400 million to endow Harvard Engineering School. Many of us affiliated with science and engineering were rather thrilled about this generous...
View ArticleBD2K2U2B
NIH recently announced a BD2K initiative. A number of new centers were funded. I am honored to be included on the roster of one. Is it progress? Yes absolutely. Is it the end point? I don’t think...
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