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Patience

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Spending the afternoon reminding myself that the excitement of reading through faculty research interests on candidate school websites is, fortunately, not indicative of the excitement felt when actually working on the research interests.

It’s been a while

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

No long excuses, the Holidays got me out of the update habit, but I’m back.
The good news is that I wasn’t out of the growing bugs habit. Look forward to reading about my new scope, the fate of my Winogradsky columns, exploding canning jars, adventures in labware, ballistic fungal spores scaring the crap the out [...]

Soap it off or eat it later

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Just a reminder that today is Global Handwashing Day.  And if you don’t think that’s important, zombie Holmes and Semmelweis would like to have a word with you.

Ted Park on discovering the method of action of penicillin

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Small Things Considered is running a great article wherein Ted Park recalls uncovering the way way penicillin works.
I find articles like this fascinating. It would be nice if there were more written experiences of “I didn’t know, but I had some hunches, so I tried this, this and this.  A colleague mentioned such-and-such and that [...]