I would like to especially thank Professor blah blah for her guidance and for inspiring me with her deep love of science. I would also like to thank her for her forbearance and understanding during some of the more difficult periods of my tenure in her lab. I also thank all the other members of …

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Thank fucken godde he stopped those olde fuckers from boning in the video.

Cliff Pervocracy just published an interesting post on the concept of “The Worst Thing In The World”–TWTITW–and how what you think is TWTITW is never TWTITW. And it immediately reminded of something very intensely. One of the most vivid TWTITW experiences I have had in my life was being in downtown NYC on 9/11. And …

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After Academe has an interesting poste uppe about “finding your passion” or whatever. The relevant kind of passion is the slow burn that keeps you calmly going about your business pursuing your goals on a daily basis for years or decades, and is rare. People who yap excitedly at cocktail parties about how passionate they …

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At first I was thinking split pea with ham, but then I changed my mind to albondigas.

Is anyone else receiving multiple identical Table-Of-Contents e-mails for the same issues of many of your subscribed journal notifications? This just started happening to me this week.

If you were standed on a desert island and could only have one soup available to you, what kind of soup would it be? I will reveal my preference in a later post.

That was the most intense emotional roller coaster of a Yankee game ever. BTW, how fucking pathetic do the people who left the Stadium when the As took a 9-5 lead feel right now? This is why you *never* leave any game of any sport *ever* until it is officially over.

A career opportunity has presented itself that would allow me to leverage many of my skills and talents developed and nurtured over the years as a scientist to do something that sounds really fun and awesome. But it would likely be extremely difficult–yet perhaps not impossible–to pursue this opportunity without permanently leaving–or at least taking …

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