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Killing to Live
Carol Kaesuk Yoon, who happens to be married to one of my professors, has an interesting article in the New York Times about the sticky moral questions we confront when we decide it's OK to kill and eat some organisms but not others. No Face, but Plants Like Life Too is a thoughtful article which I highly recommend reading. I don't entirely agree ( Read more... ) -
WTF Western?
This is really fucked up:
Important Registration/Waitlist Information: Registrar staff has determined that in some isolated cases, Waitlist Notification messages have been routed to student junk mail folders instead of the students' inbox. We strongly advise students expecting waitlist notifications to check junk mail folders for notifications ( Read more... ) -
Ugh
Seriously, this is what is wrong with science education. There is just so much wrong with it I don't even know where to begin. It's supposed to teach students the order of the steps and the major inputs and outputs in the fundamental processes that power all plants and animals. But sliding those tiles around is unnecessarily frustrating and time ( Read more... ) -
Big Gun Control
Here's a new one, to me, anyway:
“I call into question the very reasearch that you tout as truth, these very studies are bought and paid for by the anti-gun lobby and frankly not worth the paper they are printed on!!!”
I'm always a little suspicious when people dismiss large numbers of studies on the sole basis of the supposed funding source, but ( Read more... ) -
Última día
Last day in Mexico... I wish I could stay longer, but school starts in two days and it´s time to get back to reality. It´s been awesome, will post pics and stories in the next week or so... -
Holidays in Mexico
I´m in Mexico and it´s wonderful... I´ll write more later, but who wants to be on the Internet on vacation ( Read more... ) -
Mmm, arsenic
OOOOOOOMG ARSENIC-BASED LIFE!!!!111
Eh, not quite. To quote PZ: “…researchers have found that some earthly bacteria that live in literally poisonous environments are adapted to find the presence of arsenic dramatically less lethal, and that they can even incorporate arsenic into their routine, familiar chemistry.” He points out in an addendum that ( Read more... ) -
Morality and the Meaning of Life
What is the meaning of life? I certainly would not claim to know, but I do believe that our lives have "meaning" in some sense of the word. At the very least, they are meaningful to us individually. My life and well being are important to me, and I extend that to my friends and family, and even to complete strangers non-human organisms. I just read ( Read more... )
