While some take a relatively dispassionate view of criticism (essentially that criticism is jaded and interchangeable, because those who “can’t” spend their time criticizing others out of childish envy), I’ve always subscribed to the notion that the critic shows as much individuation as the artist. They are able to attain a certain level of […]
The second season of the online sci-fi serial The House Between is now online. To learn more and view each episode from season one, visit the official website. Myself and webmaster Bobby worked on this show, as jack-of-all-trades on the technical side and even moonlighting as actors in later episodes.
A new blog on science/evidence based medicine caught my eye. It is written mostly, if not completely, by practicing doctors - most of them seem to be academic researchers. They plan to have a daily entry reviewing the evidence for some medical topic or debunking a medical modality that is not supported by […]
A new article (subscription required) in Ecology Letters, a prestigious research journal, outlines an ecological and evolutionary research program on the relatively new area of epigenetic inheritance. Epigenetic refers to traits that are heritable across generations but that are not encoded by DNA. The most common form of epigenetic regulation involves methylation (binding […]
Given the widespread coverage of the New Hampshire primary, I debated whether it was worth even writing about. Unfortunately, I think there’s a clause somewhere that requires all blogs to sound off on the issue, and so we boldly toss The Modest Proposal’s hat in the ring. Since everyone else is parsing the results, I’d […]