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Most arresting paragraph I've read all day
For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore.
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Still burning in the 6th level of Hell, but it makes a good pizza
Up "late" (for my life nowadays, anyway). To summarize what's happened since last post ( Read more... ) -
This is gross
SO I fell in an inflatable obstacle course at our school's summer festival last weekend and bled all over the place, right? And it coalesced into a magnificent scab which I miraculously refrained from picking (mostly) which came off the other day while I was in lab. So, naturally, because I am me...I put it under the microscope. It was glorious and ( Read more... ) -
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crap. Meant to read about creating green collar jobs, wound up reading Michael Crichton on how environmentalism is a religion instead.
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Swine flu...in Chicago
5 cases of unconfirmed swine flu in Chicago. Two of them are staff at the U of C hospitals ( Read more... ) -
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Hi guys! Long time no see, but I've actually job-hunted a little and found an internship with the science-writing department at Argonne that would be really awesome. Thing is, they want someone with "social media" experience, like blogging and stuff. While I COULD send them to this blog, they would probably not be impressed with the swearing and ( Read more... ) -
omg.
i am the suck at studying. How did I even get this far? I DON'T KNOW but I might as well be watching the Oscars for all the studying I'm doing now for this mondo test I have tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
Your political factoid of the day
FACT: Obama's stimulus bill (now in the Senate) includes a provision that none of the projects go to the state of Illinois unless Rod Blagojevich is no longer governer.
HAH!
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I'm on the path for a big article on what Obama's stimulus bill might do for U of C science funding, and so yesterday I called like a million people - U of C professors and bigwigs at Argonne and Fermilab.
They all managed to call me back today at the most hilariously inconvenient times. Starting at 8 AM when the first guy called and woke me up ( Read more... )
