Jun's Blog

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Entries from 2022-04-01 to 1 month

Děčín, Bohemian Switzerland in Czech Republic, The Bastion Bridge in Germany

I traveled Bohemian Switzerland in Czech Republic and The Bastion Bridge in Germany recently. Those areas are around the border between the Czech Republic and Germany. It's north of Prague, and south east of Dresden. So, let's see the trav…

Biology online courses FutureLearn, Coursera

When I want to find online courses for biology. I found the Wellcome Connecting Science providing free online courses on the learning platform called FutureLearn [1]. [2][3] Unfortunately those courses are not always available, and there a…

Memo: New 4th metro D and extended metro lines in Prague

Metro D (blue color) will be completed in 2022. But more exciting thing is metro A's extension current Motol to airport. Not sure when it will be completed. Construction starts on Prague’s long-delayed metro D line - Prague, Czech Republic…

Highligher, marker plugins on Firefox

When reading papers on web browser, saved text highlight is useful to read, memorize and see it again. I saw someone using Super Simple Highlighter plugin on Brave browser, maybe that is Chrome based. When tested the plugin on Brave, it wa…

Reference management tool: Mendeley

Mendeley [1][2] is a tool to manage and work with papers. I was looking for a way to read papers effectively. And it can be good for that. It's to import PDF files, and parse the metadata, and add annotation on the paper. I like the functi…

Paper summary: The hoverfly and the wasp: A critique of the hallmarks of aging as a paradigm

This page is a summary of the paper "Paper summary: The hoverfly and the wasp: A critique of the hallmarks of aging as a paradigm" [1][2], and my thoughts. The paper is a critique for famous paper "The hallmarks of aging" [3]. The "hoverfl…

Memo: List of countries by life expectancy

List of countries by life expectancy - Wikipedia Source: Life expectancy and Healthy life expectancy Data by country - WHO Countries ranked by life expectancy - www.worldometers.info