The posts on the blog have unfortunately been far and few between, but here's a tip about nice homepage about evolution and the tree of life:
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Tree of Life
The posts on the blog have unfortunately been far and few between, but here's a tip about nice homepage about evolution and the tree of life:
Friday, 27 May 2011
Kepler Workshop in Heidelberg
Last week I attended a highly interesting workshop organised by Marcello Delitala in Heidelberg. The topic was "Managing complexity, reducing perplecity" and included talks by both mathematicians and biologists. Some visual impressions:
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Mathematical stability
The above plot was generated by Google ngrams which, based on all documents in Google Books, calculates the relative usage of a word or sequence of words. Some subjects gain, and subsequently loose popularity, while others seem more stable.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
New year and old challenges
More than a month of snow and ice, and now end to it in sight. Good times for staying indoors and reading. My aim is to read through "Towards a theoretical biology" vol. 1-4 from the 1960s. This series was the result of 4 biyearly symposia organised by Waddington and try to define the challenges and set the course for theoretical biology as a discipline. I wonder if we succeeded?