Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

National Geographic

Transit Distortion

National Geographic magazine featured a distorted sun with a black dot on its face in a picture of the 2012 transit of Venus. S. Pelech notes that Venus despite a size that is only about 13% smaller than the Earth's, appears as a speck in front of the sun. Considering that Venus orbits the Sun at an average distance of 108 million kilometres away, and during the transit between the Earth and the Sun, it is also about 41 million kilometres from the Earth, one get a true sense of the scale of the Sun. Read More...