I was asked to say something about how Ethy and I think about giving to the Fellowship.
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Here is E's lovely description of the trip.

Also, pictures

Journal log from last month, lightly edited to scrub names.

( Mar 2010 )

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We've been in Italy now for a little over three days, at Riva del Garda. I'm not wanting to waste time here at the computer (though I have had some urgent work tasks that have kept me out of the streets). So I'll point to a link of someone else's pictures to document our hike the first day -- before the maize genetics conference started for E. (I' ( Read more... )

While I'm logged in, might as well dump the last month's journal entries. I keep six daily logs, as text files edited in vim. Each is very terse. At the start of each month, I start a new set from scratch. Topics of the the logs: "exercise", "work hours", "journal," "thinking," "mail notes," "to-do." Here are the entries from "journal" from Jan and ( Read more... )

We had a memorable last two weeks, with purchase of some land for gardening and orchard. But I'll wait to say anything about it, and point to much more important weeks for redmed and fdmts. I greatly admire their willingness to drop the demands of their busy lives and go to Haiti for a medical mission. More at their sites (above).

Again, I am happy to post an essay of Mom's. This comes from northern Utah, where being a supporter of Obama means feeling like an embattled minority. This was written in anticipation of the State of the Union address, which will be given later today. Herewith ( Read more... )

Here is a nice, accessible description of the sequencing project by the lead author, Jeremy Schmutz. He describes things pretty clearly and gives some good science in his four and a half minutes.
http://www.scivee.tv/node/15632

Amidst the desperate news, I will also note publication, finally, of this paper -- culmination of a project that I have put several years of work into (I, along with a lot of other people). It has some importance as the first sequenced model for several dozen domesticated species in this group of plants.