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For 9/11 Wall, a Little Support and a Permanent Place: Steven M. Davis of Davis Brody Bond Aedas, the museum architects, advocated saving a large part of the wall, as did the engineers, Milan Vatovec, of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger,...
Posted on May 8, 2008 9:16 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My daughter collects snowglobes. Or, to be precise, we collect snowglobes for her when we travel. She has a few from New York City, one from San Francisco, one from Murtle Beach, one from Milwaukee. I badly messed up when...
Posted on May 7, 2008 10:08 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dog happy to see me. And others, of course. After 25.5 days, 4 countries, 5 airports, 8 flights by 5 airline companies, 2 panels, 2 lectures, 4 radio interviews, 2 newspaper interviews, 2 blogger meetups, and many good meals, I...
Posted on May 3, 2008 10:56 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just landed in Berlin. Flew with JAT for the first time in decades. The best flight ever. I guess their pilots, after getting some real dogfight combat flying experience find piloting a B-737-300 way too easy......
Posted on April 30, 2008 6:16 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just arrived in Trieste. It's 1am here so I am about to go to sleep. The hotel is nice, but it charges exorbitant amounts of money for Internet access (50 euro for 5.5 hours)!!!! I complained at the desk -...
Posted on April 15, 2008 7:13 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...am I? Oh! I am here. Pictures of the menagerie to follow......
Posted on April 12, 2008 6:47 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This post from May 07, 2005, was one of the rare personal posts I have ever written. Under the fold.......
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Posted on April 11, 2008 4:49 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just arrived at the Cambridge office of PLoS. Internet works fine so, after catching up with some work first, I will try to post yesterday's pictures later today. I also have another interview to post....
Posted on April 10, 2008 10:02 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A May 9, 2007 post, wondering to telecommute or not. I will be offline for a couple of days so I will not be able to post at my usual frantic pace. Instead, I decided to write something that will...
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Posted on April 9, 2008 4:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Thanks to Anton for a pleasant drive to the airport last night. Had a great flight on a B 777 and arrived in London on time. Mo picked me up at Heathrow and we went walking around town, taking lots...
Posted on April 9, 2008 8:00 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You must have noticed that there wasn't too much effort on this blog over the past couple of weeks (except for the elaborate and too successful April Fools hoax). I've just been so busy lately. So, here is a quick...
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Posted on April 5, 2008 10:25 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The trip to the UK is shaping up. Sing up here if you want to meet me during that week, or here if you want to meet me at the pub on April 9th (probably this one) or here if...
Posted on April 1, 2008 1:19 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you live in the UK and would like to meet me on April 9th, go here to organize - add a comment with your preferences of place/time/menu/events.......
Posted on March 22, 2008 9:00 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My spring traveling schedule has now crystallized. This is my schedule - if you are in any of those places at just the right time, let me know and let's meet. I'll be arriving in London on April 9 early...
Posted on March 18, 2008 10:32 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The early orders of the XO laptop arrived quickly. My wife and daughter have been enjoying them for three months now. But the late orders got pretty much stuck - they were overwhelmed with the numbers. We got a couple...
Posted on March 15, 2008 7:48 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow! This is nuts! And this is nuts in a different way! Fortunately, Scott McLemee, Chad Orzel, Josh Rosenau and Brian Switek bring in some reality to the topic: what goes on the living-room bookshelf? Commenters chime in. Good stuff....
Posted on March 2, 2008 8:50 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last night we went to Raleigh Memorial Auditorium and saw the opening ("student") night of "Annie Get Your Gun", starring Larry Gatlin, who is apparently some big name in country music, and Raleigh-born Lauren Kennedy who we last saw as...
Posted on February 23, 2008 10:47 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on February 1, 2008 10:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 31, 2008 10:52 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 30, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 29, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Many of you have been moved by my Mom's five-part guest-blogging on Holocaust Children (part I, part II, part III, part IV and part V), so I asked her to let me reproduce here her wartime story, as it appeared...
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Posted on January 28, 2008 10:52 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Conference was a blast. Did not spend much time at home, though, so it is nice to be back today. Dog was happy to see me:...
Posted on January 21, 2008 3:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Is "reshaven" a real word? This is, apparently a matter of some academic interest, according to Alex. I think "reshaven" is applicable in each of the following cases: a) when the shaven area is not an area usually shaven. Example:...
Posted on January 13, 2008 12:59 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yup, I had sarma for dinner tonight. It's been a while since the last time I had some, but Mrs.Coturnix fixed it today, inventing her own recipe along the way. It was delicious!...
Posted on December 28, 2007 10:23 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is the fifth and final installment of my Mother's travelogue. Feel free to ask questions. I will try to copy and post her published chapter from the book "We Survived" in about a month from now. Family Tuesday, November...
Posted on December 28, 2007 9:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here is the fourth installment in the series - the fifth is coming tomorrow. Please comment and my Mom will respond. Fulfilled lives of Dina and Jovan Rajs Sunday, November 11th The Hotel Dining room could accomodate all 800 participants....
Posted on December 27, 2007 9:59 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the second part of my Mom's travelogue from Israel last month: Trauma of baptized Jews Friday, November 9th The Conference continues to work in groups. The topics are interesting but I had to choose one for the morning...
Posted on December 25, 2007 10:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A few weeks ago, my mother took a long trip to Israel to attend a conference of Holocaust Child Survivors. She wrote a diary of her trip and it was, in a slightly edited form (omitting most of the...
Posted on December 24, 2007 7:48 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On Friday morning, there was a bang on the door and the UPS guy shoved a little cardboard box into our hands. Yeay! Our first XO laptop arrived. It is my wife's, and she named it Svetlana, after the character...
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Posted on December 23, 2007 6:44 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Matt and Mrs.Whatsit tagged me with the 7-meme and 8-meme and I have been struggling with the ideas as to how to respond. I am usually a sucker for memes. I always do them. But there is nothing - weird...
Posted on December 15, 2007 11:55 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The other day, Kate wrote an interesting post about inter-species relationships, in particular the cases of inter-species adoption and parenting. In her post, she mentioned a paper that immediately drew my attention - Influence of various early human-foal interferences on...
Posted on December 3, 2007 10:59 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I tend to give annual thanks on New Years' (I may have skipped a couple of years, but this year I have a lot to be thankful for, so come back here on December 31st for the extensive list). Enjoy...
Posted on November 22, 2007 1:09 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last Wednesday I went to Wine Authorities, the new wine store in Durham, for our monthly Durham Blogger Meetup. Afterwards, I could not help it but go home with three new bottles of wine. The best is the one I...
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Posted on November 18, 2007 4:43 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, back home and rested - it's time for a pictorial report, in two parts. This one is social, the other part will be about the conference itself. All of it under the fold......
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Posted on November 11, 2007 8:19 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I don't think I ever refused a meme, even if I have done it already, especially if a lot of time passed, or one can provide new answers every time. But this one is tough, as I would barely change...
Posted on November 11, 2007 4:06 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
...from Boston. Exhausted. Dog happy to see me. Cats, too. Wife, too. Pictorial report tomorrow....
Posted on November 10, 2007 11:37 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Landed safely in Boston. Anna picked me up at the airport and took me to a tour of Harvard (after a breakfast/lunch of crepes), and now I wish I did read the descriptions of Harvard Square under various weather conditions....
Posted on November 8, 2007 4:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I know, it's the name of a bar. In Boston. I'll be there tomorrow night around 8pm. Warming up for Publishing in the New Millennium: A Forum on Publishing in the Biosciences. Alex will be there. Anna will be there....
Posted on November 7, 2007 7:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Back at Scifoo I met Anna Kushnir. And then we met again. And then, inspired by the conversations at Scifoo, Anna decided to organize a day-long, student-hosted conference about the future of scientific publishing - Publishing in the New Millennium:...
Posted on November 5, 2007 10:52 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yup, Chris Surridge, Managing Editor of PLoS ONE (and the author of the legendary comment) swung by the Chapel Hill office last night. Since my initial stint was in the San Francisco office, and Chris is working in the Cambridge...
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Posted on November 3, 2007 3:39 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Biscuit and Marbles:...
Posted on October 25, 2007 1:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My brain is fried. My flight home was horrifying - the pilot warned us before we even left the gate that the weather is nasty and that he ordered the stewardess to remain seated at least the first 30 minutes...
Posted on October 24, 2007 5:36 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No time to experience Clifford Simak's Wisconsin, but Mocha (124 W. Wisconsin Ave.) in Milwaukee is very comfortable, mocha is excellent and wifi is strong (and free). I'll be able to check in the room in an hour or two...
Posted on October 22, 2007 9:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I just realized that I stupidly did not notice that my flight to Milwaukee tomorrow is at 6am instead of 6pm and I apparently cannot change that now. So, I am in a panic, trying to get some work done...
Posted on October 21, 2007 6:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday, Chris Clarke wrote a post that I read three times so far, then finally submitted it myself for Reed's consideration for the anthology. Most science bloggers are excellent writers, but rare is the gift that Chris displays in many...
Posted on September 28, 2007 10:10 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This was Anton's idea, at the dinner the other night, but I will get it started here anyway. An interesting animal I had I never owned an unusual species of animal. As a little kid I had small turtle named...
Posted on September 26, 2007 11:06 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow - this was a busy and exhausting week! But Trackbacks are in place and (mostly) working. I did not even have time to unpack everything from last weekend's pseudo-move - the house is nice and clean but still looks...
Posted on September 21, 2007 11:04 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
To Chris (and yes, what a great birthday present!)....
Posted on September 20, 2007 9:19 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mrs. Coturnix and I (amidst all of the packing and cleaning), are also celebrating our anniversary today. I just put some champaign to chill and, just in time for this, the mailman brought us something to drink out of:...
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Posted on September 15, 2007 4:54 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, I was busy with work and everything, but behind the scenes, Mrs.Coturnix took some vacation time and started completely re-doing our apartment with a help of two of her best friends. It already looks better than ever and feels...
Posted on September 13, 2007 5:32 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New pictures, under the fold...
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Posted on August 31, 2007 8:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I mentioned that I met Tanja and Doug on Sunday. They just sent me some pictures from the meeting (under the fold) and you can also see their wildlife pictures here....
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Posted on August 29, 2007 11:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There is a good reason why scientists in general despise MS Excel. It is cumbersome, non-common-sensical, and the stats cannot be trusted. The graphs are ugly. I am sure it took a lot of hard work to design Excel (and...
Posted on August 27, 2007 1:06 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday I had lunch (and coffee and another coffee - this lasted a while because it was so much fun) with Tanja and her husband Doug. Regulars here probably recognize the commenter who goes by the handle "tanjasova" - that's...
Posted on August 27, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since I came back from California, I've been trying to get Time Warner to remove one of the firewalls from my cable connection so I can get into the belly of the beast of PLoS. The wifi in the apartment...
Posted on August 11, 2007 3:15 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I predicted, bloggers have waited a day or two before they wrote much of substance abour Scifoo. First, you don't want to miss out on any cool conversations by blogging instead. Second, the experience is so intense, one needs...
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Posted on August 10, 2007 4:36 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, it's been a long time since I posted pictures of my cats, and a month since I last saw them and photographed them, so here they are (under the fold):...
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Posted on August 8, 2007 1:31 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Finally got home - after a month! So nice to see my wife again, and my son (daughter is at the beach). Dog and two of the cats (Orange Julius and Biscuit) were very happy to see me - I'll...
Posted on August 6, 2007 11:16 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I am writing here in my hotel room in Mountain View, getting ready for the beginning of the Science Foo Camp. I rode here in a cab (really a limo, driven by the most professional driver I have ever...
Posted on August 3, 2007 5:27 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A pictorial guide to drinking bloggers...
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Posted on August 3, 2007 3:32 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I started my stay in San Francisco with a dinner at Incanto and ended it tonight with a dinner at Incanto again. Last time, the duck fries were not on the menu, but this time I had better luck. Delicious!...
Posted on August 2, 2007 1:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Just came back home from a very pleasant dinner with Matt Nisbet. What luck that our trips to San Francisco coincided so well! Oh, and of course, Profesor Steve Steve was there as well......
Posted on July 25, 2007 1:28 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday, I extricated myself from PLoS for lunch, because I really wanted to go and meet one of my most regular readers and commenters, who goes around here as Michelle. We had a most delightful conversation over lunch at Jack...
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Posted on July 24, 2007 12:09 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, if one stays in San Francisco for a month, it is bound to happen one day... On Friday early morning (just before 5am) I woke up to an earthquake. I've been through a bunch of earthquakes before - Balkans...
Posted on July 22, 2007 3:31 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I missed this by weeks, but Dave asked a set of questions that I was pondering on, but found no time and energy to answer until now. PZ, Janet, Martin, Chad and RPM responded (I am assuming some people outside...
Posted on July 15, 2007 7:10 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wow - this was (and still is) a very busy week. On most days, I just crashed early, without having the energy to blog very much (at least very much for me). In the last dispatch, I forgot to mention...
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Posted on July 13, 2007 12:56 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, so I've been here for about a week now. It's been so far an exciting and overwhelming experience - there is so much to learn! And I am impatient with myself and want to get in the groove right...
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Posted on July 11, 2007 6:27 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This Tuesday at 7pm, you can come with me and learn everything you want to know about sea urchins at the Ask a Scientist event. Then, next Friday or two, altough it is in the middle of the workday,...
Posted on July 8, 2007 7:26 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
And some other non-descript meats. And great Italian wine. In the great atmosphere of Incanto. In the company of some wonderful people, including, among others, my SciBling Sandra Kiume:...
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Posted on July 8, 2007 3:14 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jennifer Ouellette has the whole story, but here are a few more pictures (under the fold). We met at Betelnut restaurant last night - Jennifer, Kristin Abkemaier (formerly of the 'Radioactive Banana' blog), Jeff and Curtis of the Jeff's Bench...
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Posted on July 7, 2007 3:52 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Enjoying the computer. Everything works! More pictures and stuff later - I am exhausted (and
