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December 2008
Yellow Fluff and Other Curious Encounters
Friday, December 12, 2008
Ah, discovery. One of the great and noble pursuits of humankind. Also one of the most dangerous, frustrating, ego-driven, transcendent, sublime, dirty, long, demoralizing, inspiring......you get the idea. Why are inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge so seductive? We take a grand tour of characters and their stories of love and loss in the name of science.
Diagnosis
Friday, December 05, 2008
Humans love to solve problems. In this day and age, we have astonishing technology available as tools to help us---chemicals and computers and machines that can pinpoint things imperceptible to humans. But humans aren't quite obsolete. Intuition and creativity still lead the way both in discovering that nature of the problem, and in dealing with that knowledge.
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