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It seems I blog less when there is good news. Read whatever you want to into that. There has been good news over the last week. Dad was stronger every day. He was sitting up. He was drinking. A couple of times he even ate solid food. He kept his eyes open and he tried to answer us when we asked him questions. He was rarely able to make a ( Read more... )

Laura just first felt a thing! From the baby! In her belly!

Unbelievably, my dad has rallied. He is now able to sit up for a while each day, and to drink thickened liquids. He can't eat, but he is getting some nutrition from Ensure. He might be stable in this condition for a while. It is just astounding to me ( Read more... )

Of course, the result is no result. The experiment did not work for technical reasons. Because I'm still a little maudlin about the whole thing, I'll give you some of the gory details. I needed to recapitulate conditions used in a published experiment. However, the published experiment used mammalian cell culture, and I was using live fly ( Read more... )

See, I'm doing the research project. I've been working on it for almost exactly 4 years without publishing anything about it. In biology these days, that's a painfully long time. Granted, there have been a lot of detours and distractions, but no one but me will ever know or care about those. Right now, my research is focusing on two genes that ( Read more... )

When MoveOn.org sends you an email titled "Dick Chaney is right," you know they must have found something pretty strange. The video they found has pinned the needle on my outrage meter! Its an interview from 1994 in which he defends the decision not to take out Saddam during Desert Storm. He describes in great detail what kind of mess that would ( Read more... )

The latest issue of Science has a HUGE section on sustainable energy. It is probably only accessible if you are at a university though.

Sometimes you can't control who you get email from. This one is from someone I can't put on my spam list. Oy. I think you will be stunned by the hatred and idiocy in this message ( Read more... )