tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post7290414238555483705..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Two cultures and the farmAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-11612275064658795172009-05-11T06:48:00.000-04:002009-05-11T06:48:00.000-04:00Thanks very much for the comment, thepretentious1....Thanks very much for the comment, thepretentious1. We're glad you found us, by whatever circuitous route you took, and glad you're enjoying the blog. <br /><br />You probably won't be surprised to hear that I share your feeling about the simple farmer/glorified colliding particles dichotomy. I don't think that science for it's own sake is all bad, by any means, but sometimes priorities do seem mixed up. You've chosen to go into an applied science, and that's a good solution. <br /><br />My sister once asked me if we could work on developing a vaccine in our lab for a very frustrating, and crippling, disease that goats frequently get called caprine arthritis encephalitis. I was quite unhappy to have to tell her that, no, we couldn't do that in our lab.Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-59198911061109418252009-05-11T04:16:00.000-04:002009-05-11T04:16:00.000-04:00hi! i've been reading this blog for awhile now. go...hi! i've been reading this blog for awhile now. got the link from the page the link Ken Weiss gave on his "Crotchets and Quiddities" (something i enjoy reading too!). I'm an undergraduate in Environmental Engineering, but my "randomness" leads me to places like this. =) <br /><br />i always wonder when science(or the humanities) go into stuffs where it wouldn't help anything to the human population in general. CERN project anyone? knowledge is great, i don't disagree with that, but isn't it weird farm people are the ones labelled as simple, and those colliding particles are glorified? <br /><br />0.o?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-22128931531501628112009-05-07T20:38:00.000-04:002009-05-07T20:38:00.000-04:00My sister emailed to say:
You might have mention...My sister emailed to say: <br /><br />You might have mentioned that these farmers (your sister, at least) and probably most farmers, choose that lifestyle despite the risks and difficulties and lack of appreciation by much of this culture. Are you guys still working on that primate skull project in between blogging?<br /><br />(Yes, that's one of the things we're doing between blogs!)Anne Buchananhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.com