Posts

August 31, 2010

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1:44 PM | A week in California? For science? Well, OK...

As all real scientists know, the only organ worth studying in any system is the brain. It's the control center for everything important and the rest, at the organ/system level, is just sundry pumps, filters and other sticky bits. And...

August 17, 2010

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3:11 PM | Do it Yourself Science!

Somewhat related to my last post, and certainly a recurrent theme throughout the comments, was the thought that some theories or observations can act in a vacuum. I'm not going to pick at old scabs, but anyone who followed...

July 30, 2010

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8:58 PM | Can we agree to disagree?

Note: After almost 3 weeks of decent activity, some fun discussions and some wacked out batshit crazy rantings (not always by me) I need to move on from this post. So, as of 9am, CST August 16th, I am no...

July 21, 2010

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6:32 PM | He's only mostly dead!

Screenshot from Scienceblogs.com, today Bloody hell it's morbid over there right now. the face page of Scienceblogs contains "highlights" from an assortment of the most popular blogs in different fields. Of the 15 focusing on science or technology (bottom...

July 20, 2010

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4:26 PM | wherein the idiots take over the asylum

Do you remember sometime last year the great Nature Network vs. Scienceblogs debate? I'm sure you do. Every(wo)man and hir dog from Scienceblogs was bragging about how awesome Scienceblogs is and how Nature Network is populated by wannabes and is...

July 19, 2010

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8:42 PM | Out with the old and in with the new, maybe

I've been busy lately. Really busy. Blogging has fallen by the wayside, as I see from the fact I haven't posted properly on this blog since the end of April...that's a fairly serious lapse on my part, especially because one...

June 22, 2010

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7:31 PM | Homeopathic Pets

yeah yeahm absentee landlord, whatever. I'm busy. Thanks to ScaryDuck for providing this full of WIN gem which allows me to keep "Meandering Scholar" alve and stop M@ from killing me to DEATH and deleting my profile... Quoth The Duck:...

May 20, 2010

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9:44 PM | Where have you been!?

I really need to get back to this dusty old blog don't I...it seems hardly fair after all the hard work the Network crew did to give us a shiny new site, that I've been busy at The Other Place...

April 29, 2010

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3:39 PM | What's my name!?

An excerpt from an email from one of our colleagues who attended the Appropriations Hearing on Capitol Hill yesterday, _"Hey everyone, I attended yesterday's Appropriations Hearing and wanted to mention that Dr. Collins spoke about meeting with us and our...

April 20, 2010

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2:43 PM | Fair Funding for Fellows, redux

Support is growing in the blogosphere for the National Postdoc Association letter writing campaign. Just to flagellate this expired Equus equus a little more, in case you have haven't been paying attention, President Obama has asked for a 6% increase...

April 13, 2010

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9:32 PM | A Call to Arms, my Brethren!

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our...

March 25, 2010

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5:50 PM | Grant Somes, PhD. 1947-2010

Update: April 30th, 2010: To UTHSC Faculty, Staff and Students: The Mississippi State Crime Lab, Office of the Medical Examiner has identified the remains of Grant Somes. Dr. Somes, former professor and chair of the UTHSC Department of Preventive Medicine...

March 20, 2010

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5:24 PM | To postdoc or not? Culled from 'Mind the Gap'.

Over at Jenny Rohn's blog a there is a great discussion raging about the role of the postodc and future of science. Susan Yee, a grad student approaching the end of her degree makes a very good point and I...

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5:38 AM | You are out of LINE1 mate!

I am in...at...Lake Barkley State Resort Park, in Cadiz, Kentucky, near the Tennessee - Kentucky border. As an immediate aside, my European reader will note immediately that there is a Cadiz, KY? We drove through Paris, KY and Milan, KY...

March 18, 2010

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8:37 PM | A miracle of modern technology!

Is NOT how I would choose to describe Microsoft Word. It is an unusable bag of faults, failures, and pointlessly, utterly risible attempts at creating a useful API. It is so buggy it is virtually unusable now. I have Word...