So today was busy, as I prepared for my extended absence this weekend. I worked all day on PathGen and finally got it to incorporate microarray expression levels. You can even upload an expression file, and have it color them according to that. I was pretty excited. This is a 4-step map from SHH to DYRK1A with some expression information I found on the server that Steven was working with almost a year ago.And my civ class was crazy. I'm taking this history of civilization class, and our teacher is a little.. well, he a religion teacher, so he isn't the most founded-in-the-facts person in the world. After several weeks of inner anger experienced immediately after class, I realized that I was getting upset because the claims he made were not logically based. And then after a while, I came to the conclusion that my civ class is like reading the tabloids. There is a certain society that enjoys base pleasures such as knowing who married whom, and who had an alien baby with three heads. And that is just fine. But there is also another society that does not read tabloids because the picture evidence is touched up, the sources are not trustworthy, and frankly, they don't care. I think I fall into the second class of people, and enjoy deciding for myself whether a claim is true based on the facts presented. And in my civ class, there are no facts... just large inferences. For example, the teacher claimed that 'No ancient Greek person ever believed for an instant that the world was flat.' Unfortunately, the description of the creation of the earth involves a flat earth with corners. And today in class, things became more like a tabloid as we discussed Lysistrata by Aristophanes. The professor stated that he hoped that we didn't find the material titillating. I agreed. It was repulsive. Of course, I wouldn't really know. I just read the spark notes version, and saved myself the obscene details.
Anyway, that's life.
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