This just in from The Scientist email blast: Emails from a top climate research institute were made public, and some climate change deniers are crying foul. Would your private emails about research look fishy? Can we scientists please be more even-handed? “Climate change deniers” is likening them to holocaust deniers. Why not call them “climate [...]

At long last I am on another publication for the years of slave grad work I completed. TAG published A Universal Core Genetic Map for Rice last month in their online edition. Hopefully it will make it into a print copy at some point. I identified the 18k+ SSR loci and built a system for [...]

CCEF has many good resources for Christians of all walks of life, even though their focus is on counseling. CCEF is a Christian counseling and educational ministry located in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I want to highlight here their podcast called Help & Hope. [iTunes] They post about every other week with things that touch upon [...]

I am sure that my church youth group will get a kick out of this. An AI competition using StarCraft. I am still amazed that the game’s appeal has lasted so long. Especially considering that I was saving the galaxy while they were still in diapers. Despite what people say, Protoss FTW!

Always read emails carefully, especially the stuff you cannot see. Emails are going around trying to get you to update your IRS W2 form. We received one here, but if you look closely it is from irs.com as opposed to irs.gov. From: Internal Revenue Service < update@irs.com > Date: November 9, 2009 6:16:29 AM EST [...]

We all know how the blogosphere is abuzz with the House of Reps health care bill vote passing 220-215. I just have to question the wisdom of celebrating such a narrow “victory”. Sure the fanboys will applaud it as the best thing since sliced bread (or at least since Social Security and Medicare), but the [...]