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Doc Bushwell is a biochemist and a medical writer who serves as a slavering minion of the dark lords of Big and Little Pharma; Jim is a college professor with a fondness for running shoes and drumsticks; and Kevin Beck is a self-exiled member of the clan who refuses to stay gone. Read our interview with Science Blogs.
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June 28, 2006
Category: Better Living through Chemistry
"Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo, a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 9:25 PM • •
June 26, 2006
Category: Fun with Politics
OK, I've got nothing but good things to say about Warren Buffett's announcement that he's giving $37 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well, other than that I wonder how we've managed to create a system where someone...
Posted by Jim Fiore at 6:58 PM • 1 Comments •
June 23, 2006
Category: Catablogic Blathering
Taking a cue from Coturnix's Weird Sex Friday fun entry (har), here's a snippet from Ananova which is making the blogosphere rounds. The world's oldest surviving condom has gone on display at the Tirolean County Museum in Austria. From the...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 12:17 PM • •
June 21, 2006
Category: Nostalgic Reverie
and a nod to a new comic strip. Yesterday evening as I drove along the allee of American elms which marks the passage from US Route 1 to Einsteinville's famous campus, I saw fireflies rising from the grass in the...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 8:45 PM • •
June 20, 2006
Category: My Bent Brain
The question has been raised as to whether or not organized religious fervor will eventually win out over the Enlightenment ideals of humanistic atheism, and if it does, the consequence of America devolving into a theocratic hegemony. On their side,...
Posted by Jim Fiore at 11:35 AM • 4 Comments •
June 14, 2006
Category: The View from Pharma-dur
Doc Bushwell here, pharmaceutical bogeyperson of the fast food-pharma-medical establishments' collusion against the fundamentalist fat activists (FFAs). Yes, that's right. We bench monkey pharma researchers lie awake at night, tossing, turning and vigorously scratching our nether regions, while we plot...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 8:49 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Catablogic Blathering
I just saw a few minutes of Fox's Bill O'Reilly being interviewed by Matt Lauer on The Today Show regarding President Bush's surprise visit to Baghdad along with other issues of the Iraq war. Undoubtedly, there will be some folks...
Posted by Jim Fiore at 8:27 AM • 4 Comments •
June 12, 2006
Category: Fun with Politics
Sometimes the little things mean a lot. I normally get out of bed around 6:00 AM. In the foothills of the Adirondacks in mid June, this means that the sky has been light for an hour. I like this. For...
Posted by Jim Fiore at 10:23 AM • •
June 11, 2006
Category: Catablogic Blathering
I have the great fortune of attending yet another protracted managerial development class for the entirety of this coming week. I can't tell you how delighted I am to be doing this. Do I need to add another scoop...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 12:35 PM • •
June 10, 2006
Category: Catablogic Blathering
Yikes! An "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question already? Well, had I been a SciBlog some weeks ago, I would have quickly answered in response to the question (paraphrasing here), "Which modern technology should not have been invented?" My answer: pantyhose. They...
Posted by Dr. Joan Bushwell at 9:08 AM • 4 Comments •
