Biology:
Do you know that feeling one gets that is characteristic of "about to come down with something", where you have an off taste in your mouth and your head feels fuzzy, and it seems like the very best thing you...
Posted on November 28, 2007 11:06 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Every aspiring field scientist needs a good rhyme about poop.
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Posted on September 21, 2007 6:49 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Avast, ye bloglubbers! We be starin' down the crow's nest at another International Talk Like a Pirate Day, a holiday marked in these seas by the seizin' o' this bucket by the Dread Pirate Free-Ride. Aye, it happened last year,...
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Posted on September 19, 2007 11:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chad and Rob have already noted this piece of news about soon-to-be-published research indicating that the order in which high school students are taught physics, chemistry, and biology makes very little difference to their performance in science classes at the...
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Posted on July 27, 2007 6:23 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Biologists share their know-how with a wiki.
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Posted on July 11, 2007 3:39 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since it has come up in the comments on my review of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go, I'm going to go ahead and discuss some of the issues around cutting-edge biomedical technologies in the book that might, or...
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Posted on June 24, 2007 2:31 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Quoth the younger Free-Ride offspring, "The rabbits are mating because they want to have bunnies." While I would not presume to know the volitional states of rabbits, whether real or plastic, I agree with the child's assessment of the...
Posted on June 9, 2007 4:48 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On this blog I occasionally note a major motion picture that is (tangentially) related to ethics in science, not to mention seeking your advice on my movie-viewing decisions (the votes are running 2 to 1 in favor of my watching...
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Posted on June 9, 2007 3:12 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Friend of the blog LO alerted me to The Great Turtle Race, wherein a passel of leatherback sea turtles "race" from Playa Grande in Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands. The linked website it tracking the turtles via satellite, so...
Posted on April 17, 2007 1:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Score another point for my mother. My mother is a really good cook. She is also an unrepentant violator of recipes. My earliest cookbook related memory involves noticing that, while Mom had a recipe in front of her, she was...
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Posted on February 20, 2007 2:06 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have a question for the scientifically informed hive-mind: Why is it that no matter what I do, I end up with a head-cold by a few days after Thanksgiving?...
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Posted on November 28, 2006 12:01 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
