That would be a good descriptor for an average summer blockbuster, but really, it's just to catch your attention so that I can send you over to my friend Isis's place. She's talked a major academic science organization to match her to give a scholarship to a promising young scientist. How will she raise her end of the funds? By having you click onto her site. She'll donate any site revenue to the scholarship, so go now and go often---and while you're there, read her excellent writing.
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You know, we catch a lot of flack around these parts for being too "political", and for straying away from "science". Well, that's a big load of crap, and two posts by Isis show why. It is impossible to separate politics from science from personal life, at least on one level. Now, perhaps I've…
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HA HA HA!!! I glanced over this the first time and then I came back here tonight to link mine your site for something I'm writing. You are hilarious! Dr. Isis is indeed "obscene, sexually violent, and amusingly charged."
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