Archive for January, 2005

Choose Your Own Adventure

In just a month or two, I’ll be choosing what Professor and lab I’ll be working with for my next 4 or so years of graduate school. That’s a big, scary choice, and so I have a lot to think about. So I’m soliciting advice– take a look! (continued)

“Wiggle While You Work: Fidgeting May Fight Fat”

So I rather suspected this was true but it is reassuring to hear an article on NPR about how important fidgeting is to weight gain/loss. (continued)

Scholarly

If you haven’t yet discovered the joys of Google Scholar, you’re missing out. It searches practically every journal known to man or mollusk. (continued)

Coffee Houses

Coffee Houses are such an interesting social experiment to me. (continued)

How Quickly a Science Education Become Out-Dated…

So my general biology (EBIO 1220) prof, just a few days ago, was telling us about the “Great Dying” of 250 million years ago, and now I find this article that gives completely different reasons for this mass extinction than I was just taught. (continued)

CU Bio Prof Talks about “Science” with Bill O’Reilly

I came across a transcript of a segment where one of the Environmental and Evolutionary Biology professors, and a person some of us reading this worked with in the Undergraduate Acadamy, was on O’Reilly’s show to talk about Intelligent Design. Depending on how you look at it this can be really funny or really sad.

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Poker, Card Games, and Woohoo

So, last night I went to a poker night and quadrupled my money. It got me thinking about card games in general, as well as feeling pretty damn happy about the whole thing. (continued)

Anybody like feathers?

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Ghastly Comic

Jenny found this yesterday
warning: not work-safe (continued)

Animals Sensed the Tsunami Coming

So I heard this after the tsunami hit, but did not believe it until I looked into it myself recently — very, very few animals were killed by the tsunami (besides people). (continued)

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My first first-author paper!

Just wanted to share that my first first-author paper is now online! In the journal Stem Cells and Development, here’s my paper on “Roles of Integrins in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth on Matrigel and Vitronectin.”


The Future of Scientific Publishing

Just read a fascinating (if lengthy) essay on disruptive technology and the future of scientific publishing. Well worth the read!


Deflation!

Just wanted to share Mint.com’s Visual Guide to Deflation, which is quite explanatory.


All Things Stem Cell

Hey all Paradoxdruid readers! I recently started up a blog on stem cells that I’d love you all to take a look at: http://www.allthingsstemcell.com/


Barely Literate: The Fermata

I participated in another Barely literate book review podcast, this time on Nicholson Baker’s “The Fermata”. Give it a listen!


Time for Change

Obama has outlined a strategy for America, in great depth. Read all about Change.gov!


Free Rice

Okay, I’ll admit that it’s entirely possible that I am the last person to learn about this website*, but it’s really addictive. 
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