They say that all criminals have one thing in common: They all claim they are innocent. As I am getting older, I am beginning to think that in many cases, they might as well have valid reasons to feel this way. For the first time in our history here in Cyprus, traffic accidents caused by Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #46: Who to blame?[…]
People in the IT industry use this term all the time. Almost always when there’s an update of a software, you can see in the changelog the line “Various quality of life improvements.” But what do they mean by that? “Quality of life improvements” in the field of the IT industry, are software improvements meant Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #45: Quality of life[…]
Last Thursday morning, I had the misfortune of listening on the radio to the views of the President of the teachers’ union here in Cyprus (“OELMEK”). It was a real extravaganza of molded views, the foulness of which almost permeated my car through the radio, making concentration difficult and driving, near impossible. But I think Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #44: Measuring education results[…]
Apoptosis (from Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις “falling off”) is a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, chromosomal DNA fragmentation, and global mRNA decay. The average adult human loses between 50 and 70 Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #43: Apoptosis[…]