Thanks, Jamy Ian Swiss, you’ve opened my eyes and I will no longer consider myself a “skeptic”. I am a scientist, and from the talk he gave tonight (which was pretty much exactly the same as his TAM talk, except for the additions where he called me stupid and a liar), it is clear that …
Category Archive: Science
May 03 2013
What I taught today: FINAL EXAM TIME!
I’m in Arizona, on my way to Orange County, but that doesn’t stop me: I’ve given my students a take home final exam. I wouldn’t want them to be bored over finals week, you know. 1. In the last lecture, I tried to give you a little context, and explained that a dynamic picture of …
May 03 2013
Friday Cephalopod: Free fallin’
From a lovely article in the New York Review of Books about octopods:
May 02 2013
“Frack” should be the new obscenity
Read this article on fracking and you’ll agree with me. The oil companies have reached new despicable lows in their efforts to poison the air and water. Like any good little privileged American, my first thought was…is this going on in my back yard? And the answer is no, it’s not, there is no fracking …
May 01 2013
What I taught today: toroids!
It was the last day of classes for us. I brought donuts. Dammit, I just realized I missed a golden opportunity. I should have talked to them about Thrive and Pivar and Fleury and Andrulis. Crackpot fringe developmental biologists all seem to have a thing for donuts. Rats. Well, I’ll just send all my students …
Apr 30 2013
Animal-rights activists are the danger to animals
It is possible to have a conscientious opposition to research on animals, and every university has channels by which activists can register their dissent, and by which they can also influence ethical decisions made by institutional animal research review committees. There is a right way and a wrong way to protest. And the wrong way …
Apr 29 2013
What I taught in the development lab today
After our disastrous chick lab — it turns out that getting fertilized chicken eggs shipped to remote Morris, Minnesota during a blizzard is a formula for generating dead embryos — the final developmental biology lab for the semester is an easy one. I lectured the students on structuralism and how there are more to cells …
Apr 29 2013
Bad laws for science and all growing things
Now it’s getting personal. When the Republicans were just dedicated to making the poor poorer and the rich richer, I could shrug it off. When they kept arguing for the righteousness of bombing foreigners (well, Democrats do that too), I could console myself that they weren’t bombing me, yet. But now they’re aiming to destroy …
Apr 29 2013
What I taught today: a send-off with an assignment
Today was the last day I lecture at my developmental biology students. We have one more lab and one final class hour which will be all about assessment, but this was my last chance to pontificate at them…so I told them about all the things I didn’t teach them, and gave them a reading list …
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