By the time the dust settles in places like San Antonio, Morgantown and Jacksonville on Saturday night we’ll know who will be playing for the NCAA football National Championship. For the first time since I have been an alum of any school, one of my alma maters has a shot at playing for the crown [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Being There
“had a dad big and strong turned around found my daddy gone he was the one made me what I am today its up to me now my daddy has gone away…” -Jane’s Addiction – “Had A Dad” It has been a rough week around the ranch this week. I realized that my Thanksgiving turkey [...]
Stem Cells: Clean Your Own Side of the Street
My friend and fellow scientist Jason has been hassling me to write a post about the recent stem cell breakthroughs that have been all over the news for the last week. Two research groups, one led by Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University and the other by James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin, have published [...]
Wordless Wednesday: Tillandsia on Madeira
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Science Tuesday: Baby Morality and Worm Longevity
This week in Science Tuesday we’ll focus on research with implications on the beginnings and the ends of human life. First, a study from Yale looking at the morality of infants and second, a paper from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Seattle suggesting that a certain class of anti-depressant can increase the lifespan of [...]
Z’s Music Monday: I’m From Barcelona – “Let Me Introduce My Friends”
“Please press my rec and play
’cause I want to save this moment
This will be my favourite song
This will be my favourite album…”
-I’m From Barcelona – “Rec & Play”
I find most “kids” music tooth-achingly annoying. It tends to be oversimplified versions of traditional or classic top 40 songs performed by sub-par musicians or saccharine sweet Disney [...]
The Objective Media?
Oh, come on. On my My Yahoo home page, leading the Reuters U.S. National News this morning was this headline:
Walmart.com offering online holiday deals all week
How, exactly, is this the most important U.S. news story of the day? How is this news at all? Has Reuters been purchased by Wal-Mart? If you read the story [...]
I’m backing Barack
I have been following the election melodrama in the States pretty closely – I’m a sucker for political theater. While some people bemoan the extended schedule for next year’s presidential election, I’m thrilled by it – the expanded schedule means months and months of debates and polls and baby kissing and
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Georgia 31, Georgia Tech 17
Seven in a row over the North Avenue Trade School. It was a wild and weird game – as Georgia – Georgia Tech usually is – but a solid win for the Bulldogs. Senior tailback Thomas Brown was the Big Dawg of the day with 139 yards rushing and one touchdown.
It’s a great way to [...]
Missouri 36, Kansas 28
Today was a good day. In my last college football related post of the weekend, Chase Daniel and the Missouri Tigers had a great night in Kansas City with a decisive win over Kansas. Daniel connected on more than 80% of his passes for over 361 yards and three touchdowns – a performance that should [...]
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