4th Dimensional Biology at UO

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4th Dimensional Biology at UO

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My Dead-blog of the 2015 IBS meetings.

These are my notes from IBS 2015, as a sort of not-so-live blog. I’m still figuring this scicomm thing out and I’ll probably have a livelier way of putting up notes next time, but I feel like the Twitters don’t give me a chance to document the conference the way I’d like. All smart stuff […]

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You can only have three hobbies as a scientist. And you should!

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged. That’s because blogging trades space in the third of my three hobbies. You’ll understand if you read to the end. The title of this post might sound like I’m going to prescribe three hobbies from which scientists must choose. Nope. Instead, I want to suggest that as a […]

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A Taxonomy of Paleontology Cranks

In science, we call non-expert people who push pseudoscientific ideas ‘cranks’. These folks are usually engaging in something Feynman insightfully labeled ‘cargo cult science’. The cargo cults of Pacific islands typically worship the military air transports that brought resources to the islands during WW2. The islanders have no context for the events that brought the planes, […]

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General Neyland’s 7 Maxims of Football, interpreted for SCIENCE!!!

OK, so I’m a big Tennessee Football fan, having earned my first science merit badges as a Vol back in the late 1990s. One of the most memorable personalities to come out of UT football was General Neyland, who led the team through three intervals in the mid-20th century, interrupted by service in the Army. […]

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Introductory post

Here’s the post where I get things started. I plan to have three main kinds of posts here: 1) Constructive reviews of interesting papers from the 4D biology literature. I plan to pick out my favorite papers from new journals each month and give a plain language review. Sometimes I will also review comic books. […]

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