Kills cancer cells in a petri dish Thank-you, XKCD, for putting this favorite line of many newspapers (“Kills cancer cells in a petri dish”) in perspective. +Ben Goldacre would be proud, I hope… 🙂 http://xkcd.com/1217/ xkcd: Cells ; >|. Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/1217/ Image URL (for hotlinking/embedding): http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png. Selected […]
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The Cockcroft-Walton Koffler particle accelerator at the Wiezmann Institute of Science. This was posted on Google+…
We just got a small glimpse of how America found itself fat. Jodi went into a store at the airport to buy a small bag of chips – something to put in her stomach to settle it until our in-flight lunch. She went to the counter to pay for her […]
This semester has been a strange one. This is a teaching leave for both Jodi and me. At SMU, we get such a leave after our third year, to work on the things that need attention ahead of our tenure reviews. I’ve been spending most of my time at CERN […]
One of my friends insisted I document the process of having a basal cell carcinoma (scary name, 99% treatment success rate) removed from my face. I was hesitant at first, but it seems silly not to write about the process of having this surgically removed. After all, what is the […]
People talk about getting cancer like they talk about winning the state lottery. Winning the state lottery is, by design, an extremely improbable event. Unlike the state lottery, most of us stand a fair chance of getting cancer at least one time in our lives. And unlike for winners of […]
Here is a review of my favorite “blog moments” from 2012. Here’s to many more adventures of my pet hamster in 2013. I better have a bunch . . . otherwise, why write at all? Favorite Photos Here are some of my favorite photos from the year. Park Falls: Nature […]
The best part about Christmas when you’re and adult is reliving the ones of your youth through the fresh eyes of your nephews. Same toys, new generation. You go, Santa!
Facebook recently added a “Your 2012 Year in Review” feature. It claims to show you the “20 biggest moments” in your life in 2012. It sucks. In no way did it capture anything that was important in my life this year. Why? Well, first and foremost, I don’t post strongly […]
Meet the robots in our family! 🙂 R2 – named in honor of R2-D2, and also because this was the second Roomba robot we owned. Bumblebee Our first Roomba, Maximilian, gave out a few months ago. Rosie, our Scooba, is still working great.