Stuff
An assortment of things.
Science
Dr. Folkman's War: Angiogenesis and the Struggle to Defeat Cancer - Robert Cooke Link to review of book
On the Cancer Frontier: One Man, One Disease, and a Medical Revolution - Paul A. Marks MD Link to book
Lost in the Twentieth Century - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Link to short article
My PhD Mentor's website - cellmechanics.org
Definitive paper that established there to be 46 chromosomes in humans, not 48. [The Chromosome Number of Man - Tjio, HT, Levan, A. 1956]
Discovery of the Rous Sarcoma Virus A SARCOMA OF THE FOWL TRANSMISSIBLE BY AN AGENT SEPARABLE FROM THE TUMOR CELLS - Rous, P. 1911
An important and innovative in vitro cancer assay Characteristics of an Assay for Rous Sarcoma Virus and Rous Sarcoma Cells in Tissue Culture - Temin, HM, Rubin, H. 1958
Valuable cancer research model based on Abelson virus Lymphosarcoma: Virus-induced Thymic-independent Disease in Mice - Abelson, HT, Rabstein, LS. 1970
Education
Cut Students Some Slack Already
Oak Lane Day School - some interesting thoughts on education
Micro Finance
Kiva.org Link
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader's Website: Link
Ralph Nader and Newt Gingrich Debate Link
Ralph Nader 'Breaking Through Power' Link
Ralph Nader interview 1976 Link
Ralph Nader 1971 Link
US Government Websites
US Department of Labor Link
Library of Congress Link
US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1875 Link
Books I want to read
- The Philadelphia Chromosome - Jessica Wapner
- Making Modern Science: A Historical Survey - Peter J Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus
- Headstrong: 52 women who changed science and the world - Rachel Swaby
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
- Scientific Autobiography and other essays - Max Planck
- You Bet Your Life - Paul A. Offit
- I Contain Multitudes - Ed Yong
- The Emperor's New Clothes - Joseph L. Graves Jr.
- The Survival of the Wisest - Jonas Salk
- The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture - Evelyn Fox Keller
- The Periodic Table - Primo Levi
- Disclosing the Past: An Autobiography - Mary Leakey
- Science in History - J.D. Bernal
Quotes about education
- “Education can only be stimulated, never produced, by external institutions. The means which are legislatively applied to promote the moral education of citizens are appropriate and useful only to the degree to which they favor the inward development of people’s capacities and inclinations. For all educational development has its sole origin in the inner psychological constitution of human beings, and can only be stimulated, never produced by external institutions” - Wilhelm von Humboldt 1789
- "The most educative influence on human beings is variety of life situations. The true aim of man--not any which is suggested by changing preference but that which is prescribed forever unchangeable reason--is the highest and best proportioned development of all his capacities, in order to form a wholeness of himself. Freedom is its first, indispensable condition. But it demands something more than freedom, something which is connected with freedom, to be sure, and that is : variety of situation. The freest, most independent human being cannot develop properly if he is placed into a monotonous situation." - Wilhelm von Humboldt 1792
- "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." - Thomas Jefferson - Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 September 1820)
- “It doesn’t matter what we cover. It matters what you discover.” - Victor F. Weisskopf – MIT Physics Professor
- “What’s important for a person, at any level, is cultivating their own abilities to think for themselves.” - Noam Chomsky interviewed by Arianne Robichaud 2013
- "Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!' -- that is the motto of enlightenment" - Immanuel Kant 1784
Articles about education
