A handbook on how to do calculations used in photobiological research with R is under preparation. The handbook will describe the use of our suite of R packages and also of functions from base R and packages from CRAN. Authors are Andreas Albert, Titta Kotilainen and myself. Further details, and possibly an early draft for download will be soon available.
Category: Books
Long awaited 2nd edition of Buchanan’s book
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition edited by Buchanan et al. will be published next May.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman (2012) Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Books, London.ISBN 978-0-141-03357-0.
I am currently reading this book. I am finding it extremely interesting. Understanding how and why we make choices, is important for everybody. If you are a scientist or aspire to be one in the future, understanding why we accept more readily some experimental results than others, why we are more comfortable with some hypotheses than others, is of fundamental importance, both to guard against bias, and to be able to present our new ideas in a way that will make them more acceptable. Continue reading
Long awaited 2nd edition of Buchanan’s book
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants, 2nd Edition edited by Buchanan et al. will be published next May.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman (2012) Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin Books, London.ISBN 978-0-141-03357-0.
I am currently reading this book. I am finding it extremely interesting. Understanding how and why we make choices, is important for everybody. If you are a scientist or aspire to be one in the future, understanding why we accept more readily some experimental results than others, why we are more comfortable with some hypotheses than others, is of fundamental importance, both to guard against bias, and to be able to present our new ideas in a way that will make them more acceptable. Continue reading