A Long, Strange Trip: My First Year Challenging the Constitutionality of Obamacare

AFNI: What a long strange trip it's been

AFNI is an open source software package for the analysis and display of functional MRI data. It originated in 1994 to meet the specific needs of researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in particular the mapping of activation maps to Talairach-Tournoux space, but has been expanded steadily since then into a wide-ranging set of tool for FMRI data analyses. AFNI was the first platform for...

What a long strange trip it's been - or - Who took the synthesis out of analysis?

As originally conceived, watershed analysis is a synthesis of information that focuses on issues important to a particular watershed in the context of larger eco-scape scales. Some practitioners of watershed analysis have ascended a steep and unfamiliar learning curve of synthesizing between disciplines and agencies and addressing ecosystem issues at a large scale. Yet, after two years of inter...

Diary of my trip to the U.S.S.R.

Protein translocation across mitochondrial membranes: What a long, strange trip it is

Hundreds of nuclear-encoded proteins are required for mitochondrial metabolism, growth, division, and partitioning to daughter cells, and virtually all of these proteins must be imported into the organelle. Many of these imported proteins must cross two membranes to reach their destination inside mitochondria. Complicating matters, the inner membrane (IM) must maintain a electrochemical potenti...

Transgenic biotechnology in forestry: what a long strange trip it's been

In the 1980s, when the production of transgenic plants was first demonstrated and was soon followed by production of healthy transgenic poplars in the US and then in Belgium, many of us, including some of the most conservation minded in forestry science, embraced genetic engineering/genetic modification as an important new technology for forestry. We had this sense of following the yellow brick...