Science Day in India, posting whole series of Scientists, their inventions or discoveries.
Duane Michals - Madame Schrodinger’s Cat (1998)
This is beyond ridiculous
is-r:
I don’t usually like describing my own work as “beautiful,” but with your permission I will make an exception today. There have been some requests for scripts illustrating the plotting of network diagrams with ggplot2, and today (for the winter solstice) we’re bringing you a really…
Humor. Sweet, sweet humor. I hope.
is-r:
I’ll be subbing today for Chris, as we continue to explore some ggplot2 basics. Today, imagine that you have data distributed in two dimensions, and that you would like to convey differences in point density over space.
As with many things, this is fairly easy to do with ggplot2, but it’s not…
is-r:
Whenever possible, I try to save R graphic output in a vector format, typically pdf(). I also like to use the handy ggsave() function to do so, as it streamlines the process, and makes it easy to be consistent across formats.
However, at times it is necessary to use a bitmap graphical…
Diane Kelly: What we didn’t know about penis anatomy
We’re not done with anatomy. We know a tremendous amount about genomics, proteomics and cell biology, but as Diane Kelly makes clear at TEDMED, there are basic facts about the human body we’re still learning. Case in point: How does the mammalian erection work?
Apoptosis (moral vision for children)
Via Facebook (Trust me, I’m a Biologist)