Fresh Wallaby Juice

For those who haven’t seen it yet, apparently they’ve found out that dinosaur bones (most notably a T. rex) may contain soft tissue: Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution. Some regions of the demineralized bone matrix are [...]

My roommate doesn’t get mentioned here very often (just in case he ever stumbles across it), but this isn’t

My advisor emailed me late last night about a statistics lecture one of our brand-new collaborators was giving today. He had to leave early today, so guess who got to go instead? It was actually a lot better than I’d feared — it was indeed a non-technical survey of “non-linear dimensionality reduction by manifold embedding”, [...]

1. Recruiting weekend! Didn’t have to do a lot for it, thankfully; I seem to have dropped off the list of people asked to hang out with the prospective students, which I don’t miss. We did show a group poster during lunch on Saturday, so I stood beside that and answered a ton of questions [...]

Went to the CSIE seminar today on “building a diverse faculty”. This began, of course, with the assumption that we want a “diverse” faculty, because Diversity Is Good. Period. What struck me as interesting was the combination of two points: First, that men and women don’t have any innate difference in capacity to do science, [...]

March 15, Third International Eat an Animal for PETA Day