The Deed is Done
Category: Lab Life
*** Major announcement *** Effective July 1st I will be joining the Department of Biochemistry at ...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:14 PM • 20 Comments •
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From the bench top to the public square.
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Alex Palazzo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at The University of Toronto.
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January 30, 2009
January 29, 2009
The Stimulus - How much is marked for science funding?
Category: Science & Society
About $10 billion is going to be pumped into research. Now is the time to fix the pyramid scheme.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 9:10 AM • 0 Comments •
January 28, 2009
Lou Dobbs understands the problem, but not the answer
Category: Science & Society
Lou Dobbs, if you really care about the future of Science in the US, lobby the government to change the wage guidelines issued by the NIH and other governmental agencies.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 1:02 PM • 10 Comments •
January 27, 2009
Institutions, why they matter and how science and liberalism have strengthened them
Category: Science & Society
Contrary to what David Brooks asserts, it is conservatives who oppose government intervention and scientific findings who are crippling our public institutions.
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
January 26, 2009
Weird International Family Chat
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Yesterday, I was diligently working on my computer when my brother suddenly appeared on MSN's instant messenger. His engineering firm had recently sent him to Doha, Qatar, to work on a new factory being built near the harbor and I...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 2:47 PM • 1 Comments •
My Year in a Picture
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
This has become a yearly tradition. I usually posted near the end of the year, but this time around I had many "distractions". Better late then never: Click here for a full size version. Previous years: 2007 2006...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 8:33 AM • 4 Comments •
January 25, 2009
Lazy Sunday Morning after a Wild Week of Theory Busting Science
Category: Lab Life
So this week I tried to gain evidence that supports my supper dupper theory, based on my unexpectedly amazing mass spec results I told you about a few weeks ago. Fortunately I had a staight forward way of testing the...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:49 PM • 2 Comments •
January 19, 2009
Quick Message
Category: art, food, music, citylife and other mental stimuli
Hello world. Once upon a time, I had a laptop. As time went on, its hard drive filled up with pdfs, music files and an enormous (well, relatively enormous) operating system. This pattern of exponential expansion continued for a few...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 12:44 PM • 6 Comments •
January 6, 2009
Happy New Year
Category: Lab Life
Yes it looks like I've abandoned my blog, but to be honest in the past few weeks my world has been rocked, scientifically. You see to be a scientist is to be obsessed. Now like some crazed psychotic individual I...
Posted by Alex Palazzo at 10:12 PM • 11 Comments •
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