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What’s your fall-back plan?
Posted on January 10, 2016 1 Comment
I had a very unfortunate experience at a quick oil change place yesterday. I had never been there before, but I need an oil change and we were in that town visiting. As I drove up to the shop, a man very angrily directed me to park in front of one of the bays. I […]
The thing about “Star Wars” is…
Posted on January 2, 2016 2 Comments
In which I try to explain to you why the new Star Wars film was not my cup of tea.
If you don’t see social messages in fiction, you’re not reading well enough
Posted on January 1, 2016 2 Comments
One of my favorite science bloggers got into a bit of a tussle with some dude on Twitter the other day. The dude is a self-described “best-selling philosopher” and seems to think of himself as a big deal in the world of science fiction writing. He also dabbles in science denialism, thinking that he is […]
2015: The Year in Review
Posted on December 30, 2015 2 Comments
People do this thing where they review the year and they tell you all about how it went. I’d like to do that, but I’m just going to stick to pointing out to you the blog posts I of mine that I think you should read to catch up on all that went on in […]
The New Epidemiologists, Part 2
Posted on September 30, 2015 2 Comments
I got distracted when I was writing last time about “The New Epidemiologists” because we started our descent into Minneapolis. I wanted to tell you that one of the consequences of new methods to do disease surveillance and data analysis is that we have a batch of “new epidemiologists” that may not have proper public […]
The new epidemiologists
Posted on September 27, 2015 3 Comments
I’m on my way right now — literally on a plane as I write this — to Minneapolis for a gathering of people who want to do disease surveillance a little differently. Seriously, the guest list reads like a who is who of the epidemiological world… Well, the world I’m connected into. The “old guard” […]
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