OK, so whilst reading Slashdot yesterday, I came across a couple of items which seemed to demand that I, as a Biology Geek par excellence, have an opinion about them. So, here's my opinions:

The first item is that the US Supreme court has decided that the US Navy has the right to use sonar off the coast of California, even at the expense of the ( Read more... )

Well, what with all the controversy raging around about the new LHC collider in France and Switzerland, and the (vanishingly small, infinitesimally tiny, makes winning the lotto 25 times in a row seem easy) possibility that it might destroy the planet Earth, I feel that it is my duty to 'splain to y'all exactly what the LHC does, so's that you can ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah, and by the way, I got accepted by the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Just so you know.