An Outpost From A Complex World

Please regard the next few posts as an open letter to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advance Program and a personal case stud...

One group of people that's been taken advantage of for longer than African-Americans and Indians in our country and the world is Wome...

I'm not talking about the Great Death, Great Doubt of Zen koans, though I've commented on death in reference to koan introspectio...

Though my view is as spacious as the sky, My actions and respect for cause and effect  are as fine as grains of flour.  - Padmasam...

Back to the hostile take-over. When the biotechnology company failed to respond to my emails over the next few months, it became obvious th...

The effects of the hostile takeover of Research Genetics on my research and career weren't immediately apparent. No crowd gathered. No ...

The last few years my mother was alive a frequent refrain I heard was that she wasn't going to mind when death arrived. She said, now...

Many people around the globe rely on football to provide them with an entertaining distraction from otherwise mundane and less than satisf...

A few items of note to start. I'm in the process of redesigning this blog, including getting a Creative Commons license and changin...

For the record my favorite cooking movie, among those I've seen, is Babette's Feast.  http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3691348992/tt00926...