Soil health – It's not all biology

All biology is computational biology

Here, I argue that computational thinking and techniques are so central to the quest of understanding life that today all biology is computational biology. Computational biology brings order into our understanding of life, it makes biological concepts rigorous and testable, and it provides a reference map that holds together individual insights. The next modern synthesis in biology will be driv...

Soil Biology and Microbiology

Gesture Production during Spatial Tasks: Its Not All About Difficulty

Previous research has shown that speakers gesture more when describing imagistic information than when describing nonimagistic information. One explanation for this finding is that spatial information is more difficult to describe verbally than non-spatial information. In the present study, we designed two novel tasks, one verbal and one spatial, in which difficulty and spatiality were not conf...

Mental health: it's not all in your head.

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...