This Week’s Cool Biotech

Stopping in quickly during a break in my hectic production and writing schedules to drop a handful of links that have recently blown me away in one way or another.
First, the coolest biomedical news this year: Synthetic arteries have arrived.
Second, some really cool news on dog evolution from two fronts. There’s an article discussing [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Autodidact, Unsavory ExcursionsPosted on January 27th, 2010

Down From Ten, ep 3

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And now, Episode 3. Bumper by Mark Smith of Buffy, Between The Lines. Story So Far by Philippa Ballantine.

No Comments »Filed under: UncategorizedPosted on July 4th, 2009

Electile Dysfunction: Bungling Science pt. 3

In my post on the Entitlement Mentality I quoted Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who once said “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”  The last several election cycles in America have made it shockingly clear that Americans no longer know the difference between opinion and facts - or, if they do, [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Idle Musings, Public Policy, SciencePosted on October 26th, 2008

Electile Dysfunction: Bungling Science pt. 2

Now, let’s go on over to the Republican side of the fence and do some more sacred cow tipping.  I could pick on them for their mirror-image myopia on the same issues of environmental stewardship, but let’s go for something more fun.  Let’s take the classic Republican relationship with tradition and history.

No Comments »Filed under: Idle Musings, Public Policy, SciencePosted on October 26th, 2008
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