Bye Bye . . . for now
Everything is ephemeral – including bioephemera. As of today, May 31, I’m going on hiatus for at least this summer – and probably longer. While I’ve met many wonderful fellow bloggers and faithful...
View ArticleEndangered species?
Poor, outnumbered moderates. . . I decided to wait until the election mayhem abated before reviewing Carl Schoonover’s EXTREMELY outstanding new book Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from...
View ArticleScienceBlogGRRRRL Power!
I’m honored to get a brief shout-out today from the awesome Ed Yong in his post on female bloggers. I mention this not to toot my own horn, but to call attention to the amazing number of women...
View ArticleWhy the grass is always greener once you hit grad school
Let’s be honest: the past two weeks have been horrible. On Thursday and Friday, for example, I worked for over 24 hours straight (who needs sleep) on a single project. You may have noticed BioE’s...
View ArticleHellz yeah!
This is the biologist googly-eyed dazzled-with-biological-complexity effect that my friends and I used to describe as “because little fishes have eyes!” Be warned: once infected with the appreciation...
View ArticleA BioE million-stone!
Yesterday, bioephemera got its one millionth visit.* Thanks so much to everyone who reads, shares, and enjoys my posts – you’re why I keep blogging, in whatever spare time I can find. There’s just too...
View ArticleSurrender, don’t cull
From Linda Holmes, a poignant post about how the deluge of information makes it impossible to scratch the surface in a single lifetime: there are really only two responses if you want to feel like...
View ArticleThe Meowmorphosis: blatant meme abuse?
Ok, what are the people at Quirk Books on? I have to say, I love the cover of the book, and the typographical trailer is cute – but isn’t this just blatant meme abuse? Quirk explains The Meowmorphosis...
View ArticleWhy I no longer trust Yelp
One of the much-hyped benefits of social networking is that it provides a way to get personalized recommendations about businesses from a wider network. If I want to tell the world that the coffee...
View ArticleGoodbye to Scienceblogs
A few weeks ago, I was notified that if I wished to continue blogging at Scienceblogs/National Geographic, I’d have to agree to new terms. After considering these terms, as well as the decision to ban...
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