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This grew out of a discussion at The Art of Teaching Science. My reply was getting to be rather long so I moved it here instead. This’ll make rather more sense in the context of that post, at a very interesting site for anyone interested in how science is (and should be) taught.

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I’m curious. People read this, according to server logs. Some of you are family (hi mom!), some are friends, some of you I link to, most arrive from random search results or a tag that catches your eye. Perhaps it’d help, in this busy and not-particularly-motivated time, to know just who’s here [...]

Two months until I defend. Give or take a few days, that is; I haven’t picked a date quite yet. Last week of April, most likely. This is mostly a public checklist of stuff I need to get done:
Labwork:
* Impulse experiment — the controls are done, just need specimens.
* Aged/young murine study [...]

There are some things that scientists can do. Actually, there’s a lot that scientists can do, but not all of it is necessarily a good idea. (There’s a character in a book I recently re-read (”The Chaos Balance”, by LE Modesitt), an engineer-turned-wizard, who muses that his tombstone probably ought to read “it [...]

My bank is having a party for their childrens’ savings account members. The good news? “Children’s Dino Club Party Features Live Bats”. Because banks and bats have always been close, at least in small dictionaries. Or maybe they flock to low interest rates.

Spent two hours or so yesterday helping someone from another lab set up the camera they’d borrowed from us. Yes, it was slightly less fun than it sounds. The main problem they were having was that there were actually two capture cards installed in the computer — same model of card, but with [...]