Science Surf

Mail me!

Matthias Wjst — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:53:57 +0000

Maybe you discovered also this nifty little arrow that appears in OS X Snow Leopard Mail indicating that a date is being recognized (and can be moved to ical) or an address (ready for transfer into the address book). Unfortunately Safari can’t extract dates, so I created a bookmarklet that sits at the top browser [...]

Different mindsets

Matthias Wjst — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:15:06 +0000

I confess, yea, there is a misunderstanding (sometimes) between generations. A new mindset list like the Beloit College List is therefore very handy as it explains Most students entering college for the first time this fall [...] were born in 1992. 2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail. [...]

Does population matter?

Matthias Wjst — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:29:04 +0000

I have no idea where genetics is heading now. A Nature paper last week on the “population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids” at least ends somewhere in the nowhere. Take not only 100 thousand participants but 100 million participants and you will get 95,000 loci – sorry to all my friends on the [...]

Einer ist immer besser als Du

Matthias Wjst — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:48:07 +0000

von Robert Gernhardt (Heine Gastprofessur 1986 in DÃ¼sseldorf – einer der wenigen wirklichen Virtuosen der deutschen Sprache) erschienen in “Gedichte 1954-1994″, Haffmanns Verlag, ISBN 3-251-00254-6. immer Immer einer behender als du Du kriechst Er geht Du gehst Er lÃ¤uft Du lÃ¤ufst Er fliegt: Einer immer noch behender. Einer immer begabter als du Du liest Er [...]

My favorite photographers

Matthias Wjst — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:15:25 +0000

Having been asked, here is my list of (sports) photographers that I am closely monitoring: Michael Clark, James Quantz, Dennis Murphy, Brian Baily and two local Bavarians: Andy Fox and Uli Wiesmeier. For street photography my favorites are Richard Kalvar and Joel Meyerowitz while I learned also a lot of Bert Stephani, Zack Arias, David [...]

Blogs aids creativity

Matthias Wjst — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:55:16 +0000

Today at First Monday: I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context Sara Kjellberg The number of scholarly blogs on the Web is increasing. In this article, a group of researchers are asked to describe the functions that their blogs serve for them as researchers. The results show that their blogging [...]

Camminando

Matthias Wjst — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:04:16 +0000

What the #$*! Do We Know!?

Matthias Wjst — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:18:13 +0000

It drives me crazy – the new JACI review with a detailed explanation how VDD (vitamin D deficiency) induces food allergy (FA). Unfortunately, it has never been show that FDD is related to FA – while the opposite may be true… Until we have the vitamin D feeding data ready for publication from the Europrevall [...]

More dung hills

Matthias Wjst — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:07:22 +0000

I wasn’t sure whether to continue here the 2008 dung hill blog post or just opening a new thread as a colleague just entered my office with the news of The substance is a plant sugar molecule called â€œarabinogalactanâ€ and stops excessive immune system reactions in children if inhaled in their first year, the scientists [...]

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst

Matthias Wjst — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:50:55 +0000

While science does not produce such big waves at the moment, I spent some time last week at ourlocal surf spot here in Munich while sorting out this weekend about 2,000 shots. For those of you, who have never heard about the Eisbach here is the video trailer of the new movie But note, before [...]

A living desktop for Snow Leopard

Matthias Wjst — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:28:15 +0000

There are certainly a zillion ways how to do create a nice background for your Mac. Here is my favorite method of a weather forecast, an individual calendar and the most recent emails. I created just three geeklets and loaded them in Geektool. The most difficult part turned out to get the weather icon from [...]

Please vote for my Nobel question

Matthias Wjst — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:06:28 +0000

At the Lindau Nobel site we can submit questions to Nobel prize winners. Most of them are trivial or even boring – basically how to make a career or what rank did you have in your university studentship. My proposal to ask there: “Is another information layer on top of the known DNA sequence?” You [...]