Sacha DE CARLO - Links & Pictures
Links - super serious

 
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---------------- Work related links ----------------
Cool personal pages of buddies:
 
Image processing:
Single-particles analysis packages: SPIDER, IMAGIC, EMAN

A SPIDER tutorial on single-particles, in loving memory of my friend Nicolas Boisset (1964-2008)

An old practical approach for the CTF correction with SPIDER, by myself
Electron Microscopy for dummies, by Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Electron Microscopy Tutorial by Andres Leschziner and coworkers
 
Cryo-negative staining:
A detailed protocol to successfully achieve it (ask me for the PDF version)
My PhD work is also about cryo-negative staining ( - 42 Mb)
 
Image gallery:
An image gallery of biological samples (electron micrographs) from my Cryo-EM work
The only thing I hate about my job... making grids !
 
 
 

---------------- Digital Photography -----------------
 

I'm a member of Photo.net, @ my pictures

 

 

Links - still serious

 
----- General interest links -----
 
The Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
QuickTime Movie trailers
The San Francisco Chronicle
Scientific American (SA)
A short introduction to comparative religions
Tissot Swiss Watches
The World Clock
Why does Swiss cheese have holes ?
 
 
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Some links concerning bikes:
AIDS LifeCycle - what a great adventure!
... which I rode on an E5 S-Works...
I am definitely grateful to GIRO, see why here !
The absolute hall of fame of all time
The greatest cycling experience : ALC's SF to LA bike ride
 
 
----- Pool -----
 
Some links concerning billiard/pool:
InsidePool Magazine, all about pool & snooker
PoolCuePlus is a first choice store (I got my Fury NR-7 there...)
Michael J's Cue store has the famous Balabushka used in "The Color of Money"
Easypooltutor is an interesting website with a lot of useful links
 
 

----- At some points of my life I was passionate about... -----
 
Some links concerning books, novels, poetry:
Jacques Prévert is my favourite romantic poet
The secrets of Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château
The reporter Henry Lincoln and his personal view about the mystery of Rennes-le-Château

Luigi Pirandello, an italian playwriter and philosopher (1934 Literature Nobel Prize). My favourite are "Le Maschere Nude", "Uno, Nessuno e centomila" and "Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore"

Herman Hesse books, Siddhartha is my favourite
Antonio Tabucchi and his novel "Notturno Indiano"
Death of Romantics, Five Century of Verse, Carpe Diem and "Dead Poets Society", a good website
Arthur Schnitzler and his "Night games" and "Traumnovelle" novels
A very interesting book (Poussière d'étoiles) about all of us, as we are "stars dust", by Hubert Reeves
 
Some links concerning different things I was into:
Basile J. Luyet (1897-1974), the father of cryobiology

Any empirical possible explanation for the origin of life (except the dogmatic and boring Genesis): Carl Sagan and SETI; astrobiologist Claude-Alain Roten and interplanetary transfer, panspermia, and microogranisms resistance to meteorites impacts with Earth (in French)

My friend Gabriel Borruat and microgravity scientific experiments in Zero-G conditions, the parabolic flight campaign with the European Space Administration (ESA)
Kip S. Thorne (Caltech) and his book "Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy"
Astrobiology, little green men and the movie "Contact"
"The final proof that extra-terrestrial intelligence exists is the fact that no one ever tried to contact us", by ??? I apologize... I don't remember who said that
 

Links - serious entertainment

 

----- Video games -----

Sierra/Valve Entertainment (Left for Dead, Half-Life, ...)
Lucas Arts (Full Throttle, "Monkey Island" saga, Star Wars like, ...)
Electronic Arts (LoR, SimCity, Need 4 Speed)
Konami Digital Entertainment (creators of Silent Hill)
Capcom (Resident Evil)
 
 
----- Assorted images -----
My (actually) best rated picture on photo.net (weighted by the # of ratings)
Dr. Seth Anthony Kostek : Phinally Done !
Never Give Up
My grand-pa (in 1964) and grand-ma (in 1936)
 

 
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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