Could we take a sample of your DNA and predict what your face looks like? Maaaayyyyybe? Maybe. … Okay yes, but also not really. Craig Venter, a pioneer in human genetic research and sequencing recently co-authored a paper saying if someone got your DNA, they could use it to reveal your face. In the paper, […]
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Computational Biology: From Genotype to Phenotype – Teresa Przytycka, NIH Scientist
>>My name is Teresa Przytycka, and I am a senior investigator here at National Center for Biotechnology Information. My group is a purely computational group. We don’t do any wet lab experiments, but rather we do experiment with computers. We collaborate a lot with experimental biologists here at NIH, and actually one of the main […]
Intro to Algorithms: Crash Course Computer Science #13
Hi, I’m Carrie Anne, and welcome to CrashCourse Computer Science! Over the past two episodes, we got our first taste of programming in a high-level language, like Python or Java. We talked about different types of programming language statements – like assignments, ifs, and loops – as well as putting statements into functions that perform […]
The Science Behind Hollywood Explosions
What we focus on is the simulation of complex natural phenomenon. We are mainly concerned with it from an aesthetic perspective — so essentially what looks interesting. We use a lots and lots of the same tools that they use in physics or computer science, but we of course adapt them to our own special […]
Cryptography: The Science of Making and Breaking Codes
This probably looks like gibberish to you, and it should because it’s a cryptogram, a message in code. But, if I told you that all I did was shift every letter in the sentence to the next one in the alphabet, then you’d know that it translates to this. To encrypt a message, you need […]
Beauty in physics, mathematics and biology, Gregory Chaitin (Copernicus Center Lecture 2016)
Witam wszystkich Moja żona i ja jesteśmy zachwyceni, że możemy być tu w Polsce zwłaszcza w celu uczestniczenia w spotkaniu poświęconemu pięknie. Nie wiem, czym jest piękno, ale jestem jego entuzjastą. Zanim zacznę i przedstawię kilka koncepcji piękna, chciałbym oddać hołd wspaniałym polskim matematykom, zajmującym się zwłaszcza teorią mnogości i logiką. Z tego powodu jest […]
