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)
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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)