Colin Firth Published a Biology Paper!!!

2011 is a fruitful year for Colin Firth. Not only did he win the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Best Picture a few months ago, he also managed to publish a paper on Current Biology!!! It's a pretty cool journal with its impact factor>10!

Check this out:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VRT-52JV2HC-2&_user=492137&_coverDate=04%2F07%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000022719&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=492137&md5=6da78ce77f421fd8c497dae4af40bf97&searchtype=a

It's about the correlation between political orientation and brain structure.

Nowadays the biological basis of human behavior has become an extremely interesting and hot field. A few weeks ago another group from China published a paper on Nature about the genetics basis of Gayness:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09822.html

Extremely entertaining and cool!

Grad School Rules!

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=411756580&ids=0RcjwNdjwPcjgIdjATej8VdP0Qb3oTc3sMc38Nd2MMd3kUc3AMcjgIc3wRdzkTcj4Q&aag=true&freq=weekly&trk=yiaag-68

Psychosis and Microbes

The other day I was wondering if someone was trying to look at the microbiology of psychosis. I mean it sounds crazy right. No pun intended!

Well, turns out that people are! ( scientists never cease to surprise me!)

This is an article where the link between pnuemoniae (pardon my spellings) and mental disorders is investigated. Though it seems to be rare occurrence, there is a connection. How cool!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19780379

Now we know why Ammar's DNA is all over the place

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/17/science/17genome.html?emc=eta1
By NICHOLAS WADE
Human genetic material found in nonhuman genomes probably came from researchers who prepared the samples, scientists say.

Yay!!!

We are all done with the finals!!!Cheers!!!
Sorry guys I missed (yes, again...) today's Happy Hour...
I hope you all had a great time...
Happy Holidays!

The Economist: "The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste of time"

I just happened to notice this, and haven't finished completely reading it carefully yet but after reading just the title, I felt like I should share this:

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223

Since I haven't actually read it that carefully and I should be studying right now, I can't comment yet. But, it seems like an interesting article!

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