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What do new years’ resolutions have to do with a growth mindset?
It’s that time again, the first few weeks of the year when everyone dusts off their best selves and resolves…
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Crafting
Show Us Your Ugly Things: Pattern Matching Edition
A while back I got obsessed with pattern matching in corsetry — how to have a pattern planned out to…
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Biology
Heritage and Challah
This past weekend was Rosh Hashana, which is the Jewish new year. Which is all well and good, but why…
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Context, content, and understanding the genome
In my last post, I talked about how as a biologist I often feel I am drowning in data, and…
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Biology
Yet another high profile paper about yet another epigenome that says the same thing, yet again.
A recent study developed a new way of probing the genome for “accessible” sites, and found the same things that…
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Biology
The stars in our cells
A relatively recent study showed that transcription factors tend to hang out in specific areas of the nucleus, clustering like…
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Kaatsu: a shortcut to more muscle, but maybe not better health
Last week, Anne asked the backchannel about a workout trend she had come across called Kaatsu, sending along this link…
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Fiction
On Failure: Nanowrimo Update 4
In which, two months later, a novel is still not written, most of my planning fell to the wayside, and…
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