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Bits and Pieces
I am exhausted! Today at lunch I did a 2.5 mile outdoor jog/walk. The weather was nice and the run went quickly. After that I came back to the office and packed up for my first move in eight years....
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Freeze-Dried Plasma
My nerdy interest du jour is battlefield medicine, tactical combat casualty care and field medicine (the non-military side of emergency medicine, used in disaster relief). The concept of triage and how...
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Why I work late
Oy. Tonight was a long one. Deadlines aren’t always as flexible as one might hope, and science sometimes does not play by human clocks. But it’s all worth it for a chance to piss off the anti-science,...
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Bugs in the City
NOTE: The Smithsonian is crowdsourcing! Read all the way (or skip) to the bottom to learn how to become an online volunteer for the Smithsonian Museum’s bumblebee records project! One thing that is...
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Boy Scouts Science, Girl Scouts Sparkle
So this was shared with me today via Facebook: H/T: Alicia Maria K. Surely the rest of the Girl Scouts science classes must be on the next page of the pamphlet, right? But nope! Nope, what is shown is...
View ArticleThe Central Dogma of Biology
Here’s a neat video that I found on YouTube. It’s from the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (posted back in 2012, but who’s keeping track?) Somebody clever – probably several...
View ArticlePenzeys Spices Is Pro-Science!
I mean, like, really pro-science. Like, write-a-manifesto/rant/call to action pro-science. The email at the bottom of the blog was sent out on March 3rd to members of the Penzeys Spices mailing list....
View ArticleJenny Bandage and the Unpronounceable A.K.R.O.N.Y.M
On Saturday night I attended a showing of a new play presented by Twin Cities-based Fearless Comedy Productions called Jenny Bandage and the Unpronounceable A.K.R.O.N.Y.M. It was very silly. There were...
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