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Iowa/Vander Plaats update

I mentioned the situation with Lieutenant Governor candidate Bob Vander Plaats and his support of intelligent design last week (posts here and here). A group of us have put together an editorial discussing Vander Plaats' position and why it matters to Iowa voters (letter and signatories can be found here at the Iowa Citizens for Science site). Yesterday, a columnist for the Des Moines register also wrote up the story, and our response to it: Town and gown are often mutual strangers when it comes to political involvement. But the Iowa governor's race this year is attracting the involvement…

Why haven't we learned our lesson?

In the last few days, we have all been in a state of shock over the situation in Utah. Like several of my colleagues, I have been praying for the trapped Utah miners and their families and friends. I have been tuning in to the press conferences with mine owner Bob Murray, and I have been refreshing CNN's website over and over again to get the latest news on the rescue efforts. Today, I walked passed a yellowed newspaper article from the Washington Post we hung on the side of a filing cabinet 20 months ago, in January 2006. "Senators Say Budget Cuts Have Left Mines Unsafe" the headline…

Sago Victims Offer Support to Utah Miners' Families

Marty Bennett was a coal miner with 29 years of experience, including work at operations thatÂ practiced "retreat mining."Â He died atÂ age 51 at theÂ Sago mine in January 2006, along with 11 other coal miners.Â Today, his family organized a letter of supportÂ for the Crandall Canyon miners' families from victim-families ofÂ previousÂ coal mining fatalities.Â Their letter wasÂ publishedÂ in theÂ Salt Lake City Tribune.Â (Full text below)Â Â To the families,Â Not many people can actually say what your hearts are feeling. We want you to know that this family can.Â We are the family of…

FEMAâs Toxic Environment

By David Michaels We are pleased that the Washington Post has come to the same conclusion we have here at the Pump Handle (see here and here): something needs to be done to shake up the attorneys at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In an editorial today entitled FEMA's Toxic Environment, the Post tells FEMA director R. David Paulison that âknocking a few heads in FEMA's general counsel's office would be a good first step" in sending a strong signal that the beleaguered agency needs to undergo major changes. The environment at FEMA is certainly toxic to the Katrina victims, many of…

Senate to Hold Asbestos Hearing Tomorrow

Tomorrow (June 12th), the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing entitled âAn Examination of the Health Effects of Asbestos and Methods of Mitigating Such Impacts.â The first witness listed is Senator Patty Murray, who for the past several years has been pushing to ban asbestos in the U.S.; as chair of the Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety (of the Committee on Health Education, Labor, and Pensions), she held a hearing on asbestos on March 1st. Tomorrowâs hearing includes a total of nine witnesses: Panel I U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) Panel II…

Friday Blog Roundup

Revere at Effect Measure updates us on the medical communityâs latest plea for Libya to release the six health care workers unjustly sentenced to death for âdeliberately infectingâ children with HIV, and links to Physicians for Human Rightsâ campaign to get the U.S. government to exert more pressure on Libya to free the nurses and doctor. Time is running short: The Libyan Supreme Court may hear the health workersâ appeal as early as the end of the month. The IPCC Working Group II published their âSummary for Policymakersâ on the impacts of climate change, and reports surfaced about…

Adding viruses to your food--on purpose

I blogged previously on the potential of bacteriophage, viruses that infect--and often kill--bacteria, in treating bacterial infections that are resistant to our current antibiotics. This is an area that's really just opening up, and while there is a lot of promise, there are also a significant number of obstacles. One thing I didn't mention, however, was the potential of bacteriophage for other public health measures--such as a bacteriocidal food additive. (More below) A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes…

Optical Allusions

Jay Hosler has a new book out, Optical Allusions(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). If you're familiar with his other books, Clan Apis(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) and The Sandwalk Adventures(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), you know what to expect: a comic book that takes its science seriously. Hosler has a fabulous knack for building serious content into a light and humorous medium, just the kind of approach we need to get wider distribution of science into the culture. This one has a strange premise. Wrinkles the Wonder Brain is an animated, naked brain working for the Graeae Sisters, and he loses the one eye they…

Identifying Pleistocene animals from Malta, courtesy of paleocreations.com

It's well known that the islands of the Mediterranean were formerly home to an assortment of island endemics, all of which are now extinct. Most of the best known ones are mammals like pygmy elephants, pygmy hippos, pygmy megacerine deer and giant dormice, but there were also large birds, tortoises and lizards. My excellent friend Bob Nicholls of www.paleocreations.com has been kind enough to share this wonderful piece of art, featuring extinct and extant animals of Pleistocene Malta (close-ups below the fold). It's used with permission and is Â© Robert Nicholls. One thing I particularly…

Seeking Your Contributions for Upcoming Issue of Scientia Pro Publica

Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux). Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power) -- Sir Francis Bacon. Since I've been preoccupied with the PepsiCo fiasco, I've not been promoting Scientia Pro Publica as I should be doing. So here's the most recent edition; "Scientia Pro Publica 34", published by Denis at This View of Earth. Let's all head out to Denis's blog to read the carnival and leave some warm fuzzies in the comments thread, then read the linked essays and leave your comments on at least one of those essays, either telling those authors what they did well, or…

Scientia Pro Publica Needs Your Writing!

Sign Expansions of Infinity

Finally, as I promised a while ago, it's time to look at the sign-expanded forms of infinites in the surreal numbers. Once you've gotten past the normal forms of surreal numbers, it's pretty easy to translate them to sign-expanded form. Suppose you've got a surreal number in normal form: Σωyry. Basically, it's going to be formed from a concatenation of the sign-expansions for each &omegayry, with one restriction. The sign expanded form needs to be generated in descending order of y's. To make this work, we need to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant signs in the sign expansion…

Update on Moderation and Banning

This post is a quick moderation update, caused by recent crap going on in the comment threads involving George "First Scientific Proof of God" Shollenberger, combined with my recent change of employment. Before changing jobs, my old employer was kind enough to allow me to write this blog, but they did not want me to ever do anything on the blog that allowed them to be identified as my employer. The idea was that since the blog was something I did on my own time, without any oversight from them, they wanted it to be clear that the blog had no connection with them. My new employer, Google,…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Fastest Flights In Nature: High-speed Spore Discharge Mechanisms Among Fungi: Microscopic coprophilous or dung-loving fungi help make our planet habitable by degrading the billions of tons of feces produced by herbivores. But the fungi have a problem: survival depends upon the consumption of their spores by herbivores and few animals will graze on grass next to their own dung. Also check this, this, this, this and this. Watch And Learn: Time Teaches Us How To Recognize Visual Objects: In work that could aid efforts to develop more brain-like computer vision systems, MIT neuroscientists have…

Obligatory Readings of the Day: Science Outreach and Online Behavior

Science promotion is not science outreach, damn it!: We've all encountered this: the science communication department at a large university is usually devoted to marketing the research of that particular university. The so-called "outreach" products of such departments - the public talks, articles, and events for school groups - are all forced to suit this purpose. Mediocre research is described in glowing terms as "world-class" or "ground-breaking". Poor communicators are put forward again and again so that they can be seen as a leader in their field. This is promotion, not outreach.…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Acupuncture Used For Animal Ailments: Needles are often equated with pain and discomfort; however, for a horse named Gypsy the tiny sharp objects brought about much needed relief as Dr. Mark Crisman, a professor in the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, administered acupuncture therapy. How Breastfeeding Transfers Immunity To Babies: A BYU-Harvard-Stanford research team has identified a molecule that is key to mothers' ability to pass along immunity to intestinal infections to their babies through…

Chaplains begone!

I'm impressed. Usually, a blunt statement of religious belief can be remarkably offensive, but in this case a Harvard chaplain used weasel words to magnify the appalling nature of his remarks. Harvard Islamic chaplain Taha Abdul-Basser '96 has recently come under fire for controversial statements in which he allegedly endorsed death as a punishment for Islamic apostates. In a private e-mail to a student last week, Abdul-Basser wrote that there was "great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [for apostates]) and so, even if it makes some…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Acoustic Communication In Deep-sea Fish: An international research team studying sound production in deep-sea fishes has found that cusk-eels use several sets of muscles to produce sound that plays a prominent role in male mating calls. Helping Dogs With Cancer May Benefit People: A new study jointly conducted by Oregon State University College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute may one day help not only our canine friends with cancer, but also people with the human form of the disease. Deadly Rugby Virus Spreads In Sumo Wrestlers: Rugby…

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: Circadian Dysregulation Disrupts Bile Acid Homeostasis: Bile acids are potentially toxic compounds and their levels of hepatic production, uptake and export are tightly regulated by many inputs, including…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Children As Young As Preschoolers Tend To Follow Majority Opinion: When we are faced with a decision, and we're not sure what to do, usually we'll just go with the majority opinion. When do we begin adopting this strategy of "following the crowd"? In a new report in Psychological Science psychologists Kathleen H. Corriveau, Maria Fusaro, and Paul L. Harris of Harvard University describe experiments suggesting that this tendency starts very early on, around preschool age. Your Looks, Creditworthiness May Go Hand In Hand, At Least In The Eyes Of Some Lenders: New research suggests that a person…

The Best of February

In February I posted 166 times. This includes two BPR3-icon-worthy posts about science! The first was on Circadian Rhythm of Aggression in Crayfish with the longish addendum on citing blog posts in scientific literature. The second was An Awesome Whale Tale, and, related to this paper, I announced the new Palaeontology Collection in PLoS ONE in Fossils! Fossils! Fossils!. I also did an interview with Dr.Adam Ratner. I have covered another session in ScienceOnline'09 - Saturday 3:15pm - Blog carnivals. Miss Baker and her students were on NPR and one of the students wrote a Malaria Song that…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Desert Ants Smell Their Way Home: Humans lost in the desert are well known for going around in circles, prompting scientists to ask how desert creatures find their way around without landmarks for guidance. Now new research shows that Desert Ants input both local smells and visual cues into their navigation systems to guide them home. Controversy Over World's Oldest Traces Of Life: The argument over whether an outcrop of rock in South West Greenland contains the earliest known traces of life on Earth has been reignited, in a study published in the Journal of the Geological Society. The…

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Why Sleep Is Needed To Form Memories: If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists are beginning to understand why. Did Burst Of Gene Duplication Set Stage For Human Evolution?: Roughly 10 million years ago, a major genetic change occurred in a common ancestor of gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans. Segments of DNA in its genome began to form duplicate copies at a greater rate than in the past, creating an instability that…

Darwin Day with Carl Zimmer - and a mini-ScienceOnline09

As you may remember, this week we have a special guest here in the Triangle - Carl Zimmer is coming to enjoy NC BBQ and, since he's already here on the 12th, to give the Darwin Day talk at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh (directions): "Darwin and Beyond: How Evolution Is Evolving" February 12, 2009 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm Please join us for a Darwin Day presentation by Carl Zimmer. Mr. Zimmer is well known for his popular science writing, particularly his work on evolution. He has published several books including Soul Made Flesh, a history of the brain, Evolution: The…

Zoo animals need to slim down

So, the zoo nutritionists got together for a 2-day meeting at NCSU to discuss the issue: Obesity among zoo animals is such a complex problem that zoo nutritionists, scientists and others, from as far away as England, gathered at N.C. State University on Friday for a two-day symposium on such weighty matters as how to tell when an oyster's weight is about right. "It's actually a huge problem, and a multifaceted one," said Michael Stoskopf, a professor at the college. "You have to look at not only diets themselves and the amount of calories delivered, but also things like exercise." The basic…

New and Exciting in PLoS ONE

There are 13 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services, from CiteULike, Connotea and Stumbleupon, to Facebook and Digg, with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites: The Absolute Threshold of Colour Vision in the Horse: Arrhythmic mammals are active both during day and night if they are allowed. The arrhythmic horses are in possession of one of the largest terrestrial…

Man-hating Chinese doctors murder baby!

God blessed a Chinese woman with twin baby boys, each one ensouled at the instant of fertilization with personhood and a personal divine fate. At their birth, though, the doctors callously ended one proud male life…and they've probably got the poor fellow pickled in a jar somewhere. Here's a photo of the pair. That is a baby. The odd blob on his back? That's his brother, a nicely formed penis growing and thriving there. This is a case of fetus in fetu, in which a mass of cells, either an absorbed twin or a large teratoma (a surprisingly well differentiated, but abnormal, fragment of…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Olympic Games: Researchers Explore What Makes Better Athletes, The Physiology Of Performance, And More: The world-record pace for the marathon continues to improve for both men and women. For men, the record pace for the marathon is now about as fast as the record pace for the 10,000-meter run just after World War II. Today, champion athletes are running more than four times farther at speeds of well under five minutes per mile. Neurobiologists Discover Individuals Who 'Hear' Movement: Individuals with synesthesia perceive the world in a different way from the rest of us. Because their senses…

Guess why the economy is a mess?

Isn't it obvious? It's all the atheist's fault! Some goober named David Lebedoff has an article in the Strib that claims that the whole source of the problem is all those amoral, atheistic people who don't believe in an afterlife. If you only go around once, then the main thing is to have fun. If you start by admitting that from cradle to tomb it isn't that long of a stay, then life is a cabaret, old chum, and so, by the way, is Wall Street. There is a bumper sticker favored by some of the recently rich that proclaims "he who dies with the most toys wins." This is indeed the moral philosophy…

Evolutionary Medicine

Bjoern Brembs alerts me to a cool new paper (OA so you can read the whole thing) - The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health by Randolph M. Nesse and Stephen C. Stearns: Evolutionary biology is an essential basic science for medicine, but few doctors and medical researchers are familiar with its most relevant principles. Most medical schools have geneticists who understand evolution, but few have even one evolutionary biologist to suggest other possible applications. The canyon between evolutionary biology and medicine is wide. The question is whether they…

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Flip Of Genetic Switch Causes Cancers In Mice To Self-destruct: Killing cancerous tumors isn't easy, as anyone who has suffered through chemotherapy can attest. But a new study in mice shows that switching off a single malfunctioning gene can halt the limitless division of tumor cells and turn them back to the path of their own planned obsolescence. Zebrafish Research Provides Answers About Neurological Development: Zebrafish cost about a dollar at the pet store. They grow from eggs to hunting their own food in three days. Adults can lay up to 500 eggs at once... and you have more in common…

In addition to the Holocaust, we're responsible for this, too?

Anytime something wrong happens, there is a Christian who will blame it on atheism and evolution. The latest is the case of the foolish woman who kept an adult chimpanzee as a pet, and got badly mauled for her trouble. This, of course, is Charles Darwin's fault. How is it that we live in a culture where people think it's safe to have a chimpanzee as a pet? Where do people get the idea that we ought to take a wild animal and treat it like a human being? The chimp owner treated the animal like a son who ate at her table, slept in her house, and even drove her car. … Last week the world…

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Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants?: When Temple Grandin argued that animals and autistic savants share cognitive similarities in her best-selling book Animals in Translation (2005), the idea gained steam outside the community of cognitive neuroscientists. Grandin, a professor of animal science whose best-selling books have provided an unprecedented look at the autistic mind, says her autism gives her special insight into the inner workings of the animal mind. She based her proposal on the observation that animals, like autistic humans, sense and respond to stimuli that nonautistic humans…

JETLAG - new circadian gene in Drosophila

From June 26, 2006.... In the beginning, there was period. Before 1995, the only known circadian clock genes were period (Per) in Drosophila melanogaster (wine fly) and frequency (Frq) in Neurospora crassa (bread mold). Some mutations, though not characterized at the molecular level, were also known in Chlamydomonas, Euglena as well as the famous Tau-mutation in hamsters. I still remember the strained mathematical models attempting to account for a 24-hour rhythm with just a single gene controlling its own expression. We now know that multiple genes are involved in circadian function in…

Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Michigan State University)

There are 31 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list. The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am…

Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (My science blogging friends)

There are 32 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 200 registered participants and a few people on the waiting list. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list. The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am…

Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (North Carolina State University)

There are 33 days until the Science Blogging Conference. We have 199 registered participants. The Sigma Xi space accommodates 200 and we have ordered food for 200 and swag bags for 200. Apart from the public list, we also have a list with a couple of anonymous bloggers as well as about a dozen of students who will be coming with their teachers. So, the registration is now officially closed and all future registrants will be placed on a waiting list. The anthology should be published in time for the event. Between now and the conference, I am highlighting some of the people who will be…

Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come

Adding to my joy of late is a remarkable article predicting the demise of evangelical Christianity in our lifetimes. Within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants. (Between 25 and 35 percent of Americans today are Evangelicals.) In the "Protestant" 20th century, Evangelicals flourished. But they will soon be living in a very secular and religiously antagonistic 21st century. Do I believe it will happen? I confess that there's a good bit of wishful thinking on my part that clouds my judgment, but I have high hopes, and I think it entirely possible. This…

Where does a fruitfly go when it goes out for a walk?

Last week's PLoS ONE paper, Analysis of the Trajectory of Drosophila melanogaster in a Circular Open Field Arena, is the subject of the newest Journal Club. It is an interesting methods paper, showing the way a camera and some math can be used for a much more sophisticated analysis of animal behavior than it has traditionally been done. The Journal Club this week is being led by Bjoern Brembs from the Institute of Biology - Neurobiology, Freie Universitat Berlin. You may be familiar with his name because Bjoern also writes a science blog. The group has now posted some initial commentary, in…

Intellectual Blogger Award

Mo the Neurophilosopher awarded me with a coveted prize - the Intellectual Blogger Award, bestowed to.... ...those bloggers who demonstrate an inclination to think on their own. This is what I think is needed in today's blogosphere. The term 'Intellectual' has often been derided in recent times, and this is one way to resurrect the true meaning: "An intellectual is one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas." So, although this may be for the old stuff and the way my blog used to be…

Stephen Hawking Set to Float at Zero-Gravity

British physicist Professor Stephen Hawking is ready to take a zero-gravity flight in a specially modified airplane next month. His trip is being paid for by Zero Gravity, an American company that normally charges $3,750. Hawking, who is almost completely paralyzed and frail after decades in a wheelchair, will be accompanied by medical staff. Hawking will take off on April 26 aboard the vomit comet, a padded Boeing 727 that flies a roller-coaster trajectory to produce periods of weightlessness. This plane will take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The airplane flies to an…

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason

Can one be religious while simultaneously claiming to be an ardent atheist? This is what Sam Harris manages to accomplish in his rant, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (New York: WW Norton & Co., 2004, 2005). Throughout much of this simplistic argument, Harris uses blunt, hard-hitting prose to make his case for why abrahamic religions, particularly Islam, are the most dangerous element of modern life. According to the author, religious faith is flawed because it requires its adherents to cling irrationally to mythic stories of heaven and hell. He…

Don't go down this road, BBC

I'm warning you. It's a disaster waiting to build: when the newspapers start reporting creationist versions of stories without questioning them, without providing explanations of the fallacies, and without even bringing in authoritative scientific voices to knock their claims down, all you do is feed the confidence of the creationists. It's even worse than "he said she said" journalism. That's exactly what the BBC has done, though, with a piss poor story about attendees at Ken Ham's preposterous creationist "museum". I'm going to be charitable and assume the author intended to hang the…

Impression

Ghost owl. Dustprint on glass of an Eastern screech-owl, Megascops asio. Photograph appears here with the kind permission of the photographer, Dave Rintoul. Click image for larger view in its own window. Dave writes; The image is a dustprint that an Eastern Screech-owl left on a sliding glass door. The bird was pursuing a moth (the dustprint of which is actually visible in the image) and smacked into the door. I presume that the components of this image, like those of the Shroud of Turin, might be mysterious, but I hypothesize that it is dust, or feather dust. At any rate, the owl was…

A Great Start to my Week

Let's face it, most of my weeks begin the same way that they end; with a whimper. However, today was different. As some of you know, I love reading and recently, I have been publishing book reviews on my blog. Considering all the limitation$ on my life during these past few years, requesting review copies of certain titles has been the only way I have devised whereby I can obtain at least some of those newly published books about birds, science and nature that I dearly wish to read. Well, without having to fight for the same priviledge with all the other unemployed people hanging out at the…

Job Ad Lingo: What They Really Mean

This was sent to me by a friend so I rewrote it a little and posted it here because I thought it might be useful to my blog sibling, Afarensis, in particular; Anyone who has been job-hunting will probably agree that the interpretations for these bullet items (written in bold) that you typically see in job ads are (sadly) accurate; Competitive Salary: We remain competitive by paying our employees less than our competitors. Join our Fast-Paced Company: We have no time to train you and you'll be stuck introducing yourself to your co-workers. Seeking Enthusiastic, Fun, Hard-Working People…

Beneath the Wheel (of Justice)

Thanks to the IT peeps at Seed Media for this nifty "scheduled post" feature because I have been playing with it all week long (I have used it only rarely since February after my initial disappointment when several scheduled messages didn't show up as scheduled. But I later learned that this featured was not enabled then). Anyway, as I was saying, I love this "scheduled posting" feature and I am using it right now, in fact. As I write this, it is Wednesday night at 8pm. I am sitting in a local Starbux, peering out the windows while I piggyback on a free wireless connection and pretend to be…

What Happens When We Finally Panic Because Climate Change Really Is Real?

Stuart Staniford has a WONDERFUL post about what I think is the most likely scenario - we finally acknowledge the (obvious, scientifically clear) reality of climate change and panic, and try and fix it...having waited too long. He asks...what might that look like? He's not shooting for perfect accuracy here, just some general scenarios, and I think he comes to what is generally the right conclusion, always barring the real but harder to model possibility of a non-linear change; The red curve shows what happens if we wait another decade - until 2030 - to start bending the emissions curve,…

How did I forget that?

I'm a little brain-dead this morning, but at least I'm remembering to note that it's MAJeff writing this. I'll be better once I have my coffee, I hope. I spent all day yesterday immersed in job hunting materials. Prepping files for submission, organizing application materials, creating individual files on disk and hard copy for every school. You know, that nasty ol' administrative side of job hunting, the kind of work you just have to grind through all at once, rather than waiting, but that has to get done in order to avoid complete chaos. This weekend a friend was over for my dinner. I was…

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