http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome
which is a map of the neural connections in the brain.

I highly recommend watching this vid, demonstrating the "New Imaging" methods, its also quite humorous.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/sebastian_seung.html

I have been contacted by a "confidential" Finnish company requesting QT developers with Meego experience. I have not read the FA, just the title.

I have the Qt experience, but not the Meego, I just though this could be relevant.

If Oracle is intending to change the name of Open Office, I cannot think of any better name than OrFice

batman killed it in 1992

I am a programmer, who works closely with scientists in scientific computing in the fields of fluid mechanics simulation, and aerodynamics simulation.
Your question is really not clear, in both these fields that I work on, the requirements vary vastly, and it also varies to the users I support (over 100 scientist). some of them have huge data sets, spanning up to 600 GB/file, a single simulation run can give a geologist a 1 TB file.
Others, have a few hundred MB of data. Each is handled differently.
The data itself, can be parsed and stored in in a DB for analysis in some cases, and in others, that is very impractical and will slow down your work.
Each scientist has a different way of doing things.

So the bottom line, if you want any useful answers, be more specific. What field of science (i can tell you are a chemist?), what simulations/tests do you use, how fine are your models are your data sets and what is their format, what kind of data are you interested in, you should seriously consider an archiving solution because i guarantee you will run out of space.

The most complicated set of roads and intersections you can ever imagine, they were designed to get you lost, a GPS would fry in despair trying to figure out what is going on (I think that's why they banned it for so long:)), the rest of the world looks like a straight road to me.

that question flashed very unpleasant images in my head!

Good old X code...sheesh.

On a more serious note however, I seriosly feel their pain. It is a mess.
Unless you are writing code to run in batch mode and user interactivity is not on your list of requrinments, you are fine.
The minute you say I need to add a button, or a window, you are presented with the questions :
1) QT or GTK
2) Maybe I should just drop both and build the GUI in Java, so I do not have to get screwed across distributions and glibc updates.
3) Nah, java is limiting, I will use Python, but it looks ugly..

Been there, and its a mess, specially if you try to get into such a conversation with mangment.

As for the audio, dont get me started.

and I keep them here:
http://www.marthastewart.com/goodthings/magnetized-pin-box

It looks cute, girls get interested in the field.

What Iran is doing...they just want to test their whiskey
So just leave them alone!