Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Rare Disease Day and the promises of personalized medicine

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O ur daughter Ellen wrote the post that I republish below 3 years ago, and we've reposted it in commemoration of Rare Disease Day, Febru...
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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Thinking about science upon entering the field: Part I

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Below is installment number one in a short series of posts by a current Penn State graduate student in Chemical Ecology, Tristan Cofer.  The...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

"White Trash": the ugly reality and its import

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I 've been reading the recent book White Trash:  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America , by Nancy Isenberg, Penguin Books edit...
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Sunday, February 4, 2018

Pogophilia--60 years ago but as fresh as ever!

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F or those readers of this blog who are old enough, or aware enough, to know about Pogo , the greatest of all the comic strips ever, I was r...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

So long 'Crotchets & Quiddities' and thanks for all the ... everything

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Since 2001, our very own Ken has been writing thoughtful, illuminating, and mighty thought-provoking essays in Evolutionary Anthropology, an...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Trump, Koko the gorilla, and reading alien minds

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Despite incongruous hand proportions, Trump has long been compared to one our closest relatives, the orangutan. Even if Bill Maher hadn’t po...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

A Christmas Charivari in Verse, and more

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A verse to Christmas  I t’s great to have a holiday, to revel in good cheer, And   a verse to Christmas is something to hold dear; T...