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Papers is an application to help you find, organise, read, and search all those PDFs that you accumulate during research. It is written by two nerds—sorry, scientists—in the Netherlands (and now UK), and won an Apple Design Award in 2007.
I downloaded the demo to help me with a biochem assignment. So far it only searches [...]

“Great, I found the article I was looking for! But wait, what’s this? I can only see the abstract? Oh yeah, I forgot to log into the proxy.”
If this happens to you as often as it does to me, you might be interested in using this bookmarklet: Proxy it. Just drag that link to your [...]

I’ve applied to the unrelated bone marrow donor registry. I’ll be having my blood drawn for marrow typing in the next few weeks.
People seem surprised, which I find surprising. Let’s take a look at some info:

There are “more than 215,000″ donors, but only around 800 (or 0.37% of 215,000) have ever donated. Bear in mind [...]

I got back into the city on Labour Day, and I’ve been busy ever since. Most of my time has been sent sitting in the Goat, working on med school applications. I think they make the application process as painful and tedious as possible in order to weed out those who don’t want it. By [...]