Stupid Brain

Dear Brain,

Sometimes you make me mad. You trick me. Play jokes on me. You lie to me. But, I cannot live without you.

Love,
Josh Continue reading “Stupid Brain”

Trends in Genetics

Although it may not be obvious here, I also occasionally write formal scientific stuff, like a review article for Trends in Genetics:

Joshua T. Witten and Jernej Ule, “Understanding splicing regulation through RNA splicing maps,” Trends in Genetics (1, 2011). Continue reading “Trends in Genetics”

Rope for sale?

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In it’s common usage, I’m not sure this is a strong critique of capitalism. Continue reading “Rope for sale?”

Cinde-really? Part 1

The Frogger loves Disney‘s Cinderella, mainly because she thinks Cinderella’s ball gown in pretty, likes dancing, and loves all the cute animals[1,2]. As a result, I have had many opportunities over the past few months to observe this film in great detail, repeatedly. These posts resulted from subjecting the normally active mind, thirsting for stimulation, to triplicate viewings whilst traversing the wintry wastelands of the Midwest, with the first of two presented here, wherein I shall examine what we can infer about the kingdom in Cinderella is set and why you might not want to live in that land of Fairy Tales. Continue reading “Cinde-really? Part 1”

Near Santa Maria della Salute

 

Near Santa Maria della Salute (Dorsoduro, Venezia, Italy) - Photo by Josh Witten (Oct 2010)
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