Chemistry is too dangerous!
Jun 2nd 2006nerd alert
So apparently, it’s getting rarer and rarer for kids to have chemistry sets at home, because safety concerns mean
Yahoo news says it all
Oct 18th 2004General
“UN Urged to Ignore Bush Plea for Human Cloning Ban” “‘Frankenfish’ Caught in Great
travelog – tuesday
Oct 7th 2004General
“Hardcore” conference day… went to the forensics talks and the poster session in the morning, couple random ones in the afternoon. It was the usual mix, about half interesting stuff and half not-so-interesting. The better forensics talks mostly focused on dogs as analytical instruments – which sounds odd, but they actually make very good “instruments”: [...]
Nice neighbors (of the animal kind)
May 14th 2004General & nerd alert
Saw a deer on the way home from work today. I was walking along through the engineering campus, which still lots of nice woodsy areas, and there was a youngish-looking white-tailed deer by the side of the road. He (?) let me get to within about 25 paces before he sort of strolled off into the woods. Sometimes I really really like this town.