One flaw with a small school in a remote location is that we only occasionally get great speakers to come all the way out here to give lectures. Now look here: Rutgers has Alan Leshner coming out to speak on Evolution’s Impact on Science and Society, while Princeton has Sean Carroll speaking on Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species.

On the same day and time.

This is no fair. I want them to release one of them and ship them out to Morris, Minnesota. I promise, there won’t be much competition.