April 2008
3 posts
"Not you, naan bread! Get back on your mango...
I’ve been working in a genetics laboratory at Vanderbilt University for about nine months now, and I’ve learned quite a bit. Most of the things I’ve picked up have been science related, like ‘don’t pass your bare arm over an open petri dish, unless you want to contaminate it’ or ‘black mice are inherently more aggressive than white mice’ (actually...
October 2007
9 posts
Wow...
As of 5:07 PM central time, CNN, BBC, and Argumenti i Facti are reporting over 110 people died in bomb blasts targeting Benazir Bhutto. It’s unimaginable to me that a group of people could have such a venomous hatred for women in power that they are willing to not only attempt to kill her, but do so in a manner that destroys over one hundred lives instantly. But, you know, religion of peace...
My hands smell like agar...
While I was waiting for some stuff to finish up at work today, I started thinking about all the different ideologies represented among the 2008 presidential candidates. Although Obama and Clinton are closest to what I feel is my own personal moral/ethical scaffolding, neither of them are really dead on. Basically, my entire philosophy boils down to one of my favorite quotes: “From each,...
'Cause I wrote it ten times or more
David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” has always been one of my favorite songs. It’s one of those tunes where just hearing a bit of the music or lyrics gives me that weird feeling of half-remembering something (how do you half-remember something?). I know I’ve heard my parents talk about songs that make them remember different times in their lives, I guess that’s sort...
Wha-happen?!?
Ok, there are a few things in the news that just make absolutely no sense to me politically. 1) The House Foreign Affairs Committee has voted to declare what Turkey did to Armenians 80 years ago a genocide, this at a time when over 70% of all troops and supplies going to “the Iraq” fly through or over Turkey. Bravo, House Foreign Affairs Committee. I mean, really, it takes a special...
I’m sitting at work taking a short break after a seminar and I thought I’d start a blog. I’m sure I won’t have very much to say that will be of interest to anyone other than myself. Mostly, I just want to use it as a place to write out some of the political and scientific ideas that bounce around in my head without ever being teased out. For example, why are people so...
