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Abel Pharmboy is the nom de plume of David J Kroll, a US state university educator and cancer researcher who holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics and BS in Toxicology. He writes on natural product drugs and dietary supplements, issues of under-represented groups in the STEMM disciplines, science and medical journalism, the science and culture of North Carolina, Florida, and Colorado, making and listening to music and, with the help of his colleague, Erleichda, wine appreciation.
"Why Terra Sigillata?" will tell you more about the origin of the blog name.
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For the record, this is a personal blog and any content or opinions expressed are solely the author's and do not reflect those of his university employer or funding agencies. He does get a bit ornery from time to time.
August 29, 2008
Category: Guest blogger, Coracle
Science and Progress blogger Coracle provides you with a guest post - if you're at the London Science Blogging Conference this weekend, please buy him a pint.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 3:02 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 28, 2008
Category: Blogging community
Just thinking out loud.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 1:02 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Chemistry
When a press release claims the smashing of a century-old rule in biochemical pharmacology and physiology, one must take a few minutes and examine a bit of the literature from those intervening hundred years. Sorry, but Overton is not overturned.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 9:03 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 26, 2008
Category: Women's health
[Sort of a repost from the last two years, updated appropriately - APB] Six years ago at 11:24 am EDT (1624 GMT), your humble blogger was handed the keys to a whole new vocabulary of love. The gift came in...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Colorado
DNC in Denver reminds me about Rep Diana Degette's book. If you've read it, how does it compare to Chris Mooney's 'Republican War on Science"?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 25, 2008
Category: Colorado
If you're reading this from Denver, pick up an actual hardcopy of 5280 Magazine.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:55 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 22, 2008
Category: Colorado
It's probably just confirmation bias. And I can't even remember the name of the champagne.
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August 20, 2008
Category: Quackery
I bought six packages of Airborne and all I got was a measly $48 - and some very nice attention from a BusinessWeek blog.
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 8:02 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2008
Category: Academia
I'm sure this question has been addressed in the educational literature to which I do not currently have electronic access. The question for the day is whether a department that has, say, a 10-year record of awarding tenure to every...
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 7:14 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2008
Category: Blog carnivals
I am officially embarrassed. It was recently brought to my attention that my previous post misattributed the new Praxis blog to Bora Zivkovic. Bora did indeed host the first edition of Praxis, the new blog carnival of academic life. However....
Posted by Abel Pharmboy at 10:20 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
