Today is World TB Day!

The NewsHour did a segment on TB and AIDS coinfection, it is very good. It illustrates precisely why my project was so important.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/video/share.html?s=news01s227fq818

aaaaaaand all the paper work is turned in and signatures are signed and copies are turned in to be bound and fees are paid and I have my receipt!

yay!

I have a masters degree!!!!!!!!!

that would be, Sara Hudson, MS, thank you very much!

:D

"Well obviously my mind is way better than a computer. A computer can't calculate the last digit of pi, but I don't fucking care"

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This one is a take-action link! The Oceana Campaign works on seafood issues from climate change to pollution. This campaign specifically works to get chlor-alkali plants to transition from using mercury-based technology to the newer, mercury free production methods. Of the 9 US chlorine plants, 4 still use mercury. The link takes you to their ( Read more... )

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"Product labels listing HFCS as a first or second ingredient may contain detectable levels of mercury if the HFCS was manufactured with mercury grade chlor-alkali chemicals ( Read more... )

I'm defending my thesis on the 9th of March

My written thesis is due to my committee on the 23rd of February

That is a month and a day from today

I have an outline, and a few more experiments to do

I know that I am capable of doing this, but...

YIPES!!!!!

Almost exactly year ago, I got an out-of-the-blue im from someone I hadn't talked to in years ( Read more... )