Eight years old with flour sack cape
Tied all around his neck
He climbed up on the garage
Figurin’ what the heck
He screwed his courage up so tight
The whole thing come unwound
He got a runnin’ start and bless his heart
He headed for the ground…
Until Jamie wrote his guest post a few weeks back, it never fully occurred to [...]
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Spread your arms and hold your breath and always trust your cape
Mendel’s Garden #26: A Few of My Favorite Things
I’m quite pleased to host this month’s Mendel’s Garden – a blog carnival featuring the best genetics writing on the internets for the last month. Since it’s my party, I’ve picked out a few of my favorite topics to feature. But in the way of introduction for the neophytes in the crowd, let’s define our [...]
R.E.M. - "Gardening At Night (Alternative Radio Sampler Version) [4:48m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadIrony, heredity and serenity
I’ve literally got students coming out the wazoo today, so I’ll keep things short and simple…
After ranting about premature Christmas decorations and my general disdain for the holiday, I’ve been tasked with coming up with a personalized message for my company’s Christmas cards. This is, by far, the most difficult three or four sentences I’ve [...]
Podcast Video: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download The Bouncing Souls - "Serenity" [2:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadAnalysis and freaky sensitivity
Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, started to study the mechanisms of heredity after observing variations in flower color in his garden pea plants. He began to notice patterns from season to season and ultimately was able to predict the frequency of one flower color occuring in subsequent generations versus another. What started with attention to [...]
And then I see a darkness
As you very likely know, Dr. O’C has taken on a chunk of the writing duties here at A Free Man while your underwhelming correspondent is burning the employment candle at both ends. What you may not know is that she’s largely taken over the photography duties as well. Pretty much any photo of Baby [...]
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "I See A Darkness" [4:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Johnny Cash - "I See A Darkness": Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadScience Tuesday: Back into the hornets’ nest
Call me a glutton for punishment, but despite the hornet’s nest that I wrote myself into a couple of weeks ago, I’ve a second post on autism for this Science Tuesday. The controversy over the MMR vaccine and the alleged links to autism and the passions that it evokes inspired me to keep on reading [...]
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