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Activities
Officially underwater: Nanowrimo update 3
Day: 18 Goal word count: 30,000 Word count: 25,013 Mood: Overwhelmed Prognosis: Need to sit down and write. So much…
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Activities
Writing by the seat of my pants: Nanowrimo update 2
Day: 10 Goal word count: 16,667 Current word count: 17,781 Mood: Circumspect Prognosis: I did a lot of cleaning up…
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Events
Why not just write a novel: NaNoWriMo update 1
This year, for the first time in a few years, I’m participating in Nanowrimo. For those of you who might…
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Activities
That time we went to NASA
This past weekend, Nasa Ames had an open house to celebrate their 75th anniversary — something that hasn’t happened in…
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Activism
Nature, Nuture, and Social Justice
Over the past week, several articles have come to my attention for various reasons that stress the “nature” part of…
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Biology
Caveman genes — what our shared history with Denisovans means
A recent article in Nature determines, fairly conclusively, that a certain variant of a certain gene which allows Tibetans to…
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Biology
Life is not a ladder. Or, really, a tree.
I’m going to stand on a soapbox for a second and talk about life. In particular, I’m going to talk…
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Biology
Not-So-Jurassic Park
Here’s a question for you: What do you get when you put a mammoth genome into an elephant egg? Is…
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