I gave much thought to the best possible division to my tales about the Amazon expedition and finally decided that it could be divided into nature watch and village visits. Although, that would leave out the part in the boat, which quite enjoyable in… Continue Reading “Amazon Voyage: Nature”
Category: Environment, Photography, Science, Travelogue, Uncategorized, World CultureTags: amazo rainforest, Amazon, Bats, birding, expedition, hoatzin, horned screamer, night owl monkey, Peru, squirrel monkey, Woodpeckers
I only just realized that I had not gotten around saying (specifically to my scientist friends and to hopeful immigrant graduate students) that my thesis research was published last year, finally. In Science Translational Med. That would sound like victory to some, it was… Continue Reading “Does publishing in Science make me less useless?”
Category: Philosophy, ScienceTags: academics, authorship, credit, data, Graduate school experience, graduate school oversease, graduate students, immigrant graduate students, PhD., Publishing, research
Posted on August 13, 2013
by neuroticphilosopher
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I have been accused ( and I might add correctly) of not liking enough people. Or any people. My dad routinely asked me to list the people I really liked, I think I always had real trouble after about 5 names. As I grew… Continue Reading “The kind of people I like…”
Category: Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, Science, World CultureTags: admiring, caste system, castes, culture, democracy, dissent, Doublethink, evolution, honesty, integrity, justice, Orwell, Orwellian, religion, role model, tolerance, tradition, truth, vigilance
It started with Doug Casey’s referral to Neal Stephenson’s work. I am not sure what led me to the essay about the history of the world’s leading (although primarily, subjectively and objectively different) leading names in computers – Microsoft and Apple. I don’t think… Continue Reading “My new favorite author- Neal Stephenson”
Category: Books, Entertainment, Evolution, I think.., Philosophy, ScienceTags: Anathem, Apple, Bill Gates. Steve Jobs, Books, conscience, consciousness, cosmos, Doug CAsey, Language, Mac, Neal Stephenson, Philosophy
AN INTERNATIONAL team of scientists has ruffled the feathers of old beliefs on evolution in birds. Using rigorous taxonomical classification and DNA-sequence data, the researchers have developed world’s most comprehensive phylogenetic tree linking all the 9,993 identified bird species. The tree shows that contrary… Continue Reading “Bird Diversification and Hubble’s Law”
Category: Environment, Evolution, ScienceTags: birds, Carribean, copy writers, Diversification, editors, Islands, Passerines, Rate, science writing, song birds, Tropics