Barrick Lab :: Links

Advice

• Advice for graduate students (Saw this linked by Tim Cooper)
• Advice for Young Scientists (Andrew Hendry)
• The Serial Mentor (Claus Wilke's Blog)
• Postgraduate research advice (The University of Queensland)

Aphorisms

• Jacula Prudentum

Architecture

Alden B. Dow Louis I. Kahn (Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban) San Marco Cathedral Introduction to Mazes and Labyrinths Emergence Architect

Art

Yves Klein and Blue Man Group Hieronymous Bosch Christo Félix González-Torres Edward Gorey Icebergs: Camille Seaman Fabio Kacero Anselm Kiefer Joan Miró Odilon Redon George Rickey Klari Reis - Petri Projects

Astronomy

• On Blue Moons
• Space Weather

Blogs

• Telliamed Revisited (Richard Lenski)
• Andy Ellington's Blog

Conodonts

An introduction to conodonts, a kind of microfossil, by James E. Barrick (my father). «PDF»

Data Visualization

• Time Line Curator
• Vizipedia – different ways to represent data
• Wormbook – very cool representation of central metabolism
• The Histomap of Evolution

Educational Sites

• Evolution Teaching Activities
• Useful Biological Numbers (Bionumbers)
• Science at a Distance: Properties of Microbes
• DNA Cocktail (DNAquiri)

Evolution

• PicBreeder | EndlessForms
• Electric Sheep Screen Saver
• Wright Fisher Animator
• Exploring Life's Origins (Szostak Lab)
• BEACON, Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
• Interactive visualizations of evolutionary dynamics (Bedford Lab)
• Gouldilocks

Genomics

• Pathway Tools

Grants

• Look up funded NIH grants

Library (UT restricted resources)

• SciFinder (Chemical compound search by structure)
• Web of Science

Literature

• Jorge Luis Borges
• Herman Melville
  • Moby Dick Marathon at the New Bedford Whaling Museum
  • Moby Dick Big Read
• Edgar Alan Poe
• Teela Brown

Mnemonic Devices

• We can all use a few more.
• And even more.

Microbes

Giant Microbes® Knitted Bacteria Microbial Art – painting on Petri dishes Glass Microbe Sculptures (Luke Jerram) 10 Cool Microbe Websites ASM's MicrobeLibrary - galleries and protocols DNA uptake by Haemophilus influenzae illustrated with candy (Rosie Redfield)

Molecular Biology

• "Hershey's Heaven" - Alfred Hershey
• The chemical makeup of peptone, tryptone, ...

Open Source / Scripting / Programming

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project

Poetry

• W.H. Auden "A New Year Greeting"

Publication Humor

• The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block
• Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men
• The 9 Circles of Scientific Hell

Statistics

• Handbook of Biological Statistics
• The Really Easy Statistics Site
  An introduction to experimental design and statistics.
• An Introduction to R
  • Error Bars in R
  • 1D Root Finding
• 2D Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test

Synthetic Biology

• Motion graphics essay visualizing future technology of Synthetic Biology

Systems of Knowledge

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs
• Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

Writing

• 30 Writing Tips

Other

• Marshmallow Catapults
• Miracle Fruit
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