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This week we're going to take a look at exactly what you DO with the photographs after you've made them. And, once again, frankly we could devote a full six week course to just this idea alone--presenting your work. But we'll try to cover this topic as best we can in just a couple of tutorials for you for this week. So let's start with a few figures just to dissect them and get you to think more about how you create figures with your images. Let's first take a look at a figure that the researchers made for a grant submission. And here we see a host of the pieces of devices, and the full devices, all labeled. They wanted to show what they were capable of creating--of course which is important. But there's so much going on, the question is whether we want to bother looking anywhere. By the way, just a note, I didn't make any of these images of the research, but I knew that a few of the original images were in color. So first of all, why not use t...

This week we'll be talking about probably one of the most important aspects of photography, which is light. As in photo-graphy [spoken phonetically], writing or drawing with light. It's a very content-rich conversation, we're going to have, and could really, easily, take up a full six-week course. But for our purposes here, we're going to give you something of an overview, showing you various forms and characteristics of some light sources. We can't address every conceivable possibility. But what we can do is tweak your curiosity, I hope, so that you pay attention, very close attention, to what you're seeing as you change your own light sources, looking at the shadows for example. How do they and they and the highlights change as you move your light source? And observe exactly what's going on when you make even some very minimal changes. Let's start with a very simple piece of equipment, a lightbox. It's really easy to use when you...

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ATUL BUTTE: So last week I talked about-- what did I talk about? I talked about an introduction to molecular biology for about 10 or 12 slides. And then we were going pretty quickly I covered a lot of this material on gene measurement techniques. And so we've already had one question, or one request, to talk about something that I actually flipped pretty quickly through, this concept of SAGE and how is SAGE used to measure microarrays. And actually it's a measure of RNA, and it's quite important that we actually talk about SAGE, I think. But I'm going to start the discussion with SAGE talking about microarrays again for a second. So I we talked about microarrays, how these are made grids of DNA. Each spot in the grid is looking for one particular RNA. And in fact, more than one spot might be actually hybridized into one RNA. It doesn't have to be one to one It could be many to one. And I just want to talk about the differences of the two technologies f...

Welcome to our week six. It's time to negotiate the next generation social contract. So I'm looking forward to a really exciting and fruitful week. All the instructions are now on the platform on week six, so all you need to do is to go to it. You'll see instructions for how to find your team, your role assignments. Then you go through, and you'll complete the preparation survey, you'll negotiate online with your counterparts, hopefully in the same time zone where you are located. And then as you complete the survey form at the end, to record your settlements, those of you who are taking the course for certification and for a grade will get some extra credit as described on the platform. So we're excited about it. We're looking forward to hearing what you have in mind for shaping the future of work. As a bonus, we will provide a facilitator. One of our MBA students, what we call our community TAs, will be assigned to your group. What is a facil...