Dr. Reed Cartwright has successfully defended his doctoral dissertation. Reed's a Panda's Thumb contributor and theoretical population geneticist. We'll forgive him for the second point, seeing as how he did have my academic grandfather as an advisor. The Panda's Thumb was the great inspiration for me to start blogging. I found a link to the website from EvolDir, and the rest was history.
I'm a day late on this. Some of us are still working toward that elusive dissertation and fall behind on things like blog reading.
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