Archive for January, 2011
Just a shoe: self control edition
Despite the 40% off sale, I didn’t buy these shoes today. Someone give me a cookie.
Advice for writing about science
Carl Zimmer has some pretty awesome advice for writing about science. I’m going to try and follow it. You all should feel free to point out my mistakes. I think avoiding the words on this list is a good place for me to start. I’ve particularly abused interesting, elucidate, faciliate, impact, interaction, interdisciplinary, literally, mechanism, […]
Figures Lie and Liars Figure – Under Water
If you’re new here, you might want to read the previous Figures Lie and Liars Figure posts, a public conversation on climate change between my skeptical aunt and myself. My aunt’s last question about this EPA slideshow on climate change indicators is about extreme rainfall events. The slideshow tells us that In recent years, a […]
Ayurvedic update – Failure #2
A very kind reader sent me The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies, and I’m trying the migraine remedies it recommends. The first remedy (yawning in a funny way) was a failure at treating migraines, but feels good. 2d Structure of Tyramine. Image via Wikipedia The second thing I tried was to eat a breakfast […]
Handling a Chronic Illness in Grad School
I’ve sent out applications to three of the four schools I’m applying to for graduate school and have begun a dialogue with potential major professors. I feel pretty optimistic about getting into grad school. I’m a smart cookie and I did some pretty cool research as an undergraduate. One of the things I haven’t brought […]
Open Lab 2010
The Open Laboratory is a book of the best science blogging published each year. Posts are nominated and judged by science bloggers everywhere. One of my posts was nominated this year. Even though it didn’t make the final cut, I was still flattered. I’ve never actually bought the book, but I love when the final […]
The frustrations of ruling a kingdom
Back down on the plains, if you kicked people they kicked back. Up here, when you kicked people they moved away and just waited patiently for your leg to fall off. How could a king go down in history ruling a people like that? You couldn’t oppress them any more than you could oppress a […]