Oh Roswell!
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If ever you are in Downtown Roswell, (and why wouldn’t you be?) You may see
a very singular place. As a matter of fact you’d have to be blind and
pretty me...
A Platypus Describes Humans
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Ryan Gregory invents The Platypus Fallacy to illustrate an important
concept in evolution. Here's how a platypus describes humans. See if you
can spot the ...
WANT Part XIV: Citric acid for blood
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Of *course* I want one of these!
It would give me something to eat while crawling through service corridors
looking for the cat.
*Tip o’ the sawed-off ...
Recuperation
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Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919) (During
recovery) Edvard Munch: Self-Portrait after Spanish Influenza (1919)
(Later in recovery)
A delusional life on film
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A curiously recursive case of psychosis, reported in the latest issue of
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, about a person who worked on a reality TV show
who had ...
Explosions of activity
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Detail from Incredible Hulk Anatomy.
Recent news from my studio:
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The *Incredible Hulk Anatomy* image did very well.
- Published it on Symbiartic, g...
Time traveling polaroids
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Earlier today I came across this "feel-good" article at the *Los Angeles
Times*. Old Polaroid yields eerie development — a long-dead uncle
A random garage...
Dr. Watson, Mr. Holmes and Faraday
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Apparently, Michael Faraday evaluated two proposals to electrify the
lighthouses — one by Dr. Watson and another by Mr. Holmes according to
Frank A J L Jam...
But I don’t even *like* tyrannosaurs…
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I mean, I don’t not like them, but they always seemed bit … gauche you
know? Like truck nuts or something. No, no … truck nuts are obviously
odious, but fo...
Scientific turnover and the fate of old theory
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The Arts and Sciences are often seen as non-overlapping complements, as
naturally opposed as North and South, or the two sexes male and female.
It's there...
Lens Flare in the Eye of the Beholder
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We’re all familiar with lens flare, those circles of light that appear in a
photo or video when the camera points too close to the sun. When the scene
is t...
Why mistakes are often repeated?
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*“Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different
results.” *
- Narcotics Anonymous
I have been wondering about this for a long long...
And that would be desirable because...?
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As an atheist, I'll be the first one to admit that I don't always
understand why people do things. I don't get praying or speaking in
tongues, I don't real...
ACHOO
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Some people sneeze when they look at the sun. This trait, known as thephotic sneeze reflex, or ACHOO (Autosomal-dominant Compelling
Helio-Ophthalmic Outbu...
Who's afraid of the N.R.A.?
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Fuck the National Rifle Association! "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hand"? OK! We can do that!Look, you NRA people are all pussie...
Dog Bites Man
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This was a typical headline today: Why is that news? They don’t start every
day with the headline: Earth Still Spinning on its Axis Some things just
aren’t...
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Our Corporate MastersAs an academic I interact with many groups of professionals on a daily basis. Students, colleagues from various disciplines, and adminis...
Sneaky Catch-22 in Higher Ed
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stolen from a friend's FB:Apparently there's a push to measure "student success" in higher education based solely/primarily on retainment and graduation ra...
Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
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Many people proudly boast of their preparations for catastrophic emergency scenarios, such as nuclear war, plague, or - tangentially related - a zombie apoca...
A Change of Scenery
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After blogging on Blogger since 2006 I've decided to give WordPress a try.
There is a lot of juvenile baggage on this page and I think a move will
help me ...
Tons of Resources for High Resolution Melt Analysis
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In this self-guided slideshare presentation you will learn the basics of
High Resolution Melt Analysis HRM, applications, important considerations,
assay ...
Time-lapse video of slightly darkened Tokyo
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+ Video By fading back and forth between scenes of pre- and post-quake
Tokyo, this time-lapse video by YouTube user darwinfish105 shows how the
metropolita...
Quotes Roundup- Fall- Winter 2010
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Anatole France: An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory,
or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what
you do k...
Sci-fi mania
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Greetings to one and all! Yeah... so that thing about being back. Turns out
that breaks are great times to start up on pet projects. It's something I
highl...
In a Muddle
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Captain of the Obvious states, “I have not been blogging.” This is really
because I have no idea what to blog about. I found a job, finally (FINALLY)
defen...
Heaping in count data
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Survey questions are often open for interpretation for the respondent. One
type of question may ask the respondent for the 'number of times' something
has ...
The Carnival Is Over
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It has preyed heavily on my mind over the last year - every time a
colleague or a student has asked me about my PhD I have felt like more and
more of a fra...
This Blog Has Moved
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Laelaps is back up and running at my author website, http://brianswitek.com.
Go there for new posts and updates on where this blog will ultimately
settle...
What in the larval world is this?
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No one at Duke seems to know what this is. Southern Fried Scientist has
allowed me to copy verbatim his post in the hopes that maybe someone out
there in T...
I am not wasting my Ph.D.
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I suppose the common assumption is that, in taking on other types of jobs,
all of my knowledge and training will go to waste.
Hiatus
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So, the more observant of you may have noticed this site has been quiet for
the last two years. I guess I've said most of what I felt I had to say.
However...
Not Blogging
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Not been blogging and don't feel the need to anymore. :)
Still do read blogs, esp. wifey's... maybe I'll do some guest posts for her
once in a while... (alr...
A play about cancer
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Sarah’s Daughters” is an example of the use of theatre in healthcare
education for the purpose of education and to influence health care policy.
“Sarah’s ...
What’s that bright ball of fire in the sky again?
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From this article: ALTERNATIVE ENERGY We’re using thermal, which is far
cheaper than solar. (There are) panels on our roof, but instead of using
sunlight, ...
Illusion contest: The break of the curveball
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“The Break of the Curveball” won first place in this year’s Best Visual
Illusion of the Year contest. I created the illusion with Zhong-Lin Lu
(University ...
Quote of the Day
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Always nice to have context for other people's shitty lives, to compare to
yours. Fuck My Life is a great site for that. Recent favorite:
Today, I received...
Farewell
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Today marks the end of our tenure here at Discovery Channel. We've enjoyed ourselves here over the last few months and appreciate the opportunity afforded to...
Cthulhu's Bar and Grill for the Holidays
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Just in time for the holidays, I'm happy to announce the grand opening of Cthulhu's
Bar & Grill! It's a one-stop shop for vaguely Cthulhu-related t-shirts a...
Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder
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*Answer:
*Metastatic carcinoma from the bladder
*Exposition:*
*Criteria for diagnosis clinically:* Violaceous papules, but mostly plaques
of shapes b...
If Humans were on the Microscale
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As usual, I've been way too busy to write all the posts that I really want
to write about for this blog in progress. Eventually. I promise.
For now - I gues...
Improving EvoDevo blog
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Dear all,
I just added a sitemeter to my blog today. It created very powerful
motivation for me to improve my blog.
If there are any comments which you wo...
Singapore Wildlife Stampede
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Singapore's first parade for endangered animals and environment, led by Dr.
Jane Goodall, happened on 2 November 2007 4-7 pm at Singapore Botanics
Garden. ...
Check one off the list
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Remember that stuff about loving thy neighbor and helping the underserved?
Apparently the agnostic and atheists of the medical world are actually more
like...
The Scoville scale of dangerous questions
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Taped to the wall just next to where I am writing this is a cut-out from an
old issue of "New Scientist" that describes the Scoville scale. This scale
desc...
Polymers can get “older than universe”
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Maybe CDs and DVDs won’t lose their data so fast after all? New research
has shown that certain polymers may actually have cosmic life spans. read
more | d...
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Have you been following the Mentally Scarring PSA Tournament? Some of the entries there are really freaky...
Yes, quite creepy, especially the drink driving one.
Not sure if it's just me, but the scariest part of this ad I posted is the cackling, buzzing sound that slowly comes on.
It instantly tells me that something is not right...
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