Famed cancer biologist allegedly sexually harassed women for decades

The Harassed Waitress Problem

It is known that a stack of n pancakes can be rearranged in all n! ways by a sequence of n!−1 flips, and that a stack of n ‘burnt’ pancakes can be rearranged in all 2n! ways by a sequence of 2n!−1 flips. Unfortunately, the known algorithms are too difficult to be used by the waitstaff of a busy restaurant. How can humans can determine the next flip from the current stack and no extra informatio...

Women who sexually abuse children.

Exerting Control Over Allegedly Automatic Associative Processes

Philosophy of a Biologist *

A quarter century is, indeed, a rather brief period to allow for the development of a philosopher, and yet, though I make no claim to such a title, I choose to preface the little I have to say by stating that it might be termed the "philosophy of a biologist." Perhaps I should also add that I can hardly qualify as a biologist, since my activities throughout the period in question have been-conf...

Interactive visualization tools for the structural biologist

In structural biology, management of a large number of Protein Data Bank (PDB) files and raw X-ray diffraction images often presents a major organizational problem. Existing software packages that manipulate these file types were not designed for these kinds of file-management tasks. This is typically encountered when browsing through a folder of hundreds of X-ray images, with the aim of rapidl...