A faded memory: My old school

Biology: my old girlfriend

Biology: my old girlfriend e animals are influenced by experience; we learn, sometimes. I was shacked up with biology for almost twenty years. That was some experience. We weren't really well suited, me and biology, so what brought us together? Partly it was that as a child I loved animals; I spent happy years roaming the hills and deserts and shores of southern California, chasing life, catchi...

How old is my gene?

Gene functions, interactions, disease associations, and ecological distributions are all correlated with gene age. However, it is challenging to estimate the intricate series of evolutionary events leading to a modern-day gene and then to reduce this history to a single age estimate. Focusing on eukaryotic gene families, we introduce a framework that can be used to compare current strategies fo...

Faded Images of Old Tidore in Contemporary Southeast Seram: a View from the Periphery

Some published accounts—generally, but not exclusively, older ones— describe the activities of Ternate and Tidore with respect to their historic peripheries in terms of boundaries, territories, and conquest, and speak of entire “islands” being “subject” to these centers of power.2 The prevailing view seems to have been of two polities dividing up Maluku into spheres of influence, Ternate to the...

Excerpts from my old lectures on spinors

The development of ideas connected with spinors shows, once more, how important and beneficial is the interaction between mathematics and physics: spinors were discovered by mathematicians, but their importance comes from the role they were shown to play in physics. The initial misunderstandings and errors committed when trying to introduce spinors on manifolds, have shown how important it is t...

Mathematical Statistics Old School