Sunday, November 30, 2008

Selected Papers 113008

genetics
Signatures of Combinatorial Regulation in Intrinsic Biological Noise

biophysics
Exciting Cytoskeleton-Membrane Waves

theoretical biology
Scale-Free Networks as Entropy Competition

biochemistry
The Molecular Face of Lipid Rafts in Model Membranes

microscopy, developmental biology
Reconstruction of Zebrafish Early Embryonic Development by Scanned Light Sheet Microscopy

microscopy, cell biology
Multiplexed FRET to Image Multiple Signaling Events in Live Cells

ecology
The Interaction between Predation and Competition

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Apron Strings 家事美人

We have more in common with each other across cultures than we think.
--Sima Urale

看完之後不後悔選了這部片子
這個評論寫得不錯
所以我不打算再寫一篇XD

框架、限制、不完美
轉身?面對?放下?寬容?

對我而言
場景與對話相當親切
議題與思想很對口味

綜觀之
顯然導演並沒有要讓觀眾有大的情緒起伏
但一股淡淡的感覺會緩緩釋放:)
Still waters run deep.
****推薦之
(雖然在台灣幾乎不可能再看到這部片XD)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Medical Education

到波蘭念醫科,正夯!!!
正反兩面都顯示出台灣社會某些價值與風氣的扭曲

反面沒什麼好說的
原作已經點明很多東西了
但正面呢?
從行文的語氣看來
我不太能感受到原作真的是替廣大的老百姓(可能的病人)發聲
反而比較像在製造恐懼來維護既得利益
而且有一種很強烈的意識型態讓我很不舒服

當然從事醫師這個行業
有很多很多的犧牲
但怎樣的reward才算夠仍有檢討的空間
社會上有更多人付出的與他們所獲得的不成比例
[e.g. 中研院生物領域實驗室的RA XD]
這些人要向誰抱怨?

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

史上最強數學家

天啊!
這個真的是太中肯了XD

不過蔡宜洵的當人率果然偏高...
看來要好好拚幾何才行

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Sunday, November 16, 2008

臺大八十週年校慶晚會

Amazing!
藝文中心成立以來真的做了很多事!

讓我surprised or touched的有──

唐捐的鐘塔前小賦格:)
(應該是今天幾首詩作中寫得最好的)

傅申教授的書法配上塞下曲:)

周華健,炒熱氣氛的冠軍

齊豫的橄欖樹清唱

胡德夫充滿人文關懷的樂音與歌聲

最後當然是校歌大合唱跟燒錢的煙火XD

不能免俗的
要祝 台大生日快樂
過去三年台大給了我很多:)

Selected Papers 111608

dynamical systems
Riemannian Geometry of Hamiltonian Chaos: Hints for a General Theory
Generalized synchronization of chaos in autonomous systems

theoretical biology
Simple Reaction-Diffusion Population Model on Scale-Free Networks

biochemistry, cell biology [review]
Structural Insights into a Circadian Oscillator

biochemistry, cytoskeleton
Dynamic Stabilization of Actin Filaments

bacteriology, cell biology
A Bacterial Control Circuit Integrates Polar Localization and Proteolysis of Key Regulatory Proteins with a Phospho-Signaling Cascade
Non-Random Segregation of Sister Chromosomes in Escherichia coli

neuroscience
Glia Are Essential for Sensory Organ Function in C. elegans

neuroscience, computational biology
Cell Groups Reveal Structure of Stimulus Space

evolution, ecology
The Origins of Ecological Diversity in Prokaryotes

ecology
Experimental Evidence for Spatial Self-Organization and Its Emergent Effects in Mussel Bed Ecosystems
Asymmetric Disassembly and Robustness in Declining Networks

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國際數位動畫短片競賽B

昨天去看了動畫B
Very impressive!

今天下午新光還有一場
沒事的可以去看看XD

整體而言個人評價****以上的有──
Stop 會"動"的漫"畫",有笑果但是探討的東西其實很深刻
Trickster 想說的東西很多但處理得太隱晦了
The Funk 人生的意義?
Shoe 作工細膩,親情加分

Saturday, November 15, 2008

海賊王におれはなる!

節錄自《一生當中,不交往過一次你會後悔的星座男女》

男生篇:

第三名:射手男

跟射手座“談戀愛”還不錯喔~為什麼?因為很好玩。他們是那種說走就走,騎著摩托車載你環島、上山、然後去沖浪,去揚帆出海喔,就是很水手、很流浪的性格。跟他在一起,你會覺得天不怕地不怕,不知天高地厚,兩個傻小子就這樣子到處玩,好玩的不得了。還有一點呢,他外表看起來陽光可愛,可是內在卻非常地成熟沉穩。而且基本上他是一個還蠻有智慧的人,他喜歡盯著你成長,他喜歡看你成長,他也會督促你成長,他會給你很大的發展空間,就是說他也不會去拘束你,他也不會覺得女生就應該要怎麼樣,他不會限制你,他覺得你就努力發展你的個性,他會很欣賞這樣的一個女孩子。 所以跟他在一起,就是過癮兩個字,還蠻不錯的。

看到只有一個感想
我要成為海賊王XD
我一直很難理解為什麼魯夫是金牛座的...

Friday, November 14, 2008

Selected Papers 111408

終於有時間來過濾papers了
Selected Papers重現江湖:)

prokaryotic cytoskeleton
Caulobacter Requires a Dedicated Mechanism to Initiate Chromosome Segregation

bacteriology, single-molecule technique
A Stochastic Single-Molecule Event Triggers Phenotype Switching of a Bacterial Cell

biophysics, genetics
How DNA Coiling Enhances Target Localization by Proteins

biochemistry
Emergence of Symmetry in Homooligomeric Biological Assemblies
Probing the Origin of Tubulin Rigidity with Molecular Simulations

cell biology
Selective Roles for Cholesterol and Actin in Compartmentalization of Different Proteins in the Golgi and Plasma Membrane of Polarized Cells

cell biology, theoretical biology
Cytokine-Induced Signaling Networks Prioritize Dynamic Range over Signal Strength

theoretical biology
Number Theoretic Example of Scale-Free Topology Inducing Self-Organized Criticality
Synchronization Interfaces and Overlapping Communities in Complex Networks

theoretical biology, genetics
A Genetic Timer through Noise-Induced Stabilization of an Unstable State

theoretical biology, evolution
An End to Endless Forms: Epistasis, Phenotype Distribution Bias, and Nonuniform Evolution

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Thursday, November 13, 2008

讀書會

有機會開真正的讀書會了:)
感謝XOO的熱血

可能會唸這本
有興趣的一起來吧

講到讀書會
就不能不提一下去年Abel獎的得主Varadhan
他們當時一夥人的讀書會真的是典範啊

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Friday, November 07, 2008

Nationalism

Comment faire un monde
Sans misère
Et sans frontières?

There is a picture by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. In it, an angel is depicted who appears as if trying to distance himself from something that he stares at. His eyes and mouth gape wide, his wings are stressed to their limit.

The Angel of History must look this way; he has turned to face the past. Where we see a constant chain of events, he sees only a single catastrophe incessantly piling ruin upon ruin and hurling them at his feet.

He would probably like to stop, waken the dead, and correct the devastation - but a storm is blowing hard from Paradise, and it is so strong he can no longer fold his wings.

While the debris piles toward the heavens before his eyes, the storm drives him incessantly into the Future that he has turned his back upon.

What we call Progress is this storm.
-- Theses on the Philosophy of History, Walter Benjamin

這次事件焦點似乎已經轉到liberty跟democracy上了
不過nationalism才是最近一連串紛擾背後的ghost
讀讀Anderson的Imagined Communities(中譯本)應能讓眼光清澈一點
思想與論述缺乏深度並不是一件太好的事情

Monday, November 03, 2008

數學系

聽說數學系搬到天文數學館後
舊系館會拆掉T^T
學校怎麼老是喜歡拆舊建築呢?
應該請金次去抗議一下


說實在話
我對數學系的感情比生科系還深厚
在系館專心聽課享受數學的奧妙
期中期末考時的振筆疾書或百思不解
都是相當難忘的記憶啊

積微成歲月
微積有風景

除非這一年內遭受什麼重大的衝擊
否則跟台大數學系的緣分就只剩這兩個學期
在數學系老師助教同學的砥礪下
四年積微而成一段甘苦的歲月
盼在數學系所學的
未來能微積化為一片美好的風景

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Sunday, November 02, 2008

中埔山

今天早上本來只是想到富陽跟福州山頂繞繞
結果亂走就走到中埔山去了
(見地圖
紅色為上山路徑
藍色是下山路徑)



這是第一次走這條路
之前沒走過的原因是
我通常是傍晚才會去富陽逛
很怕亂走就走到亂葬崗裡頭然後天黑出不來XD

今天這條路還滿適合流汗的
推薦之

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下次來試試這個好了

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