I've been playing through Deus Ex for the past two weeks and just finished the game over the weekend. Jesus, that was something. My transhumanism kick has only intensified, and has also spread to most everyone else on Fourth High. We've been doing a lot of talking about the issues that the game addresses, and somehow decided to turn it into a ( Read more... )

So if things go as planned, I miiiiight wind up with a job over the summer curating articles for an international group of science writers with an amusingly SHIELD-like acronym for a name.

It’s a trial run and nothing’s set in stone yet, but oh my lord, this is totally a thing I can do. My first potential task is to review an advance copy of a ( Read more... )

I'm currently en-route to becoming a science writer, and I can tell you from personal experience (and what I've heard from every science-type person I've ever worked with) that this is the most accurate article you will ever read on the subject.

Presenting: How to Write Like A Scientist.

Mad props, man. Mad props.

The few days before I went back to school were pretty brilliant. I went back to VA a few days early to hang out at my roommate's house with another friend of ours and go have DC History Adventures. We ran around all over Washington and saw giant ferns and Soviet spacecraft and totem poles and a giant metal spider. We also met up with spastic_visions for pizza, ( Read more... )

 Have I mentioned that I'm keeping a blog of my research and travel adventures? I figured I'd create something new rather than posting here, as I'd rather not have an influx of RL friends and relatives creeping on my regularly scheduled programming.

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This is the first free moment I've had since 9:30 this morning, but that's totally okay. Today, I:

+ found out I was accepted as an associate editor to my school's undergraduate research magazine. How cool is that?

+ went to talk to my academic advisor about my schedule for next year and was randomly invited to participate in a research project with ( Read more... )

So apparently I am possessed by John Locke or something, because I have just embarked on a semester-long research project for my Wildlife Sciences class that involves, of all things, wild boars, and particularly their impact on tropical/island ecology. I don't even know, man. Just stop me before I start throwing knives and rambling about how ( Read more... )

Well, last night was certainly interesting. I went to this thing at school with a bunch of people, and among the various interesting events they had going was a comedy/hypnosis show. I've always been curious about whether hypnosis really works -- it's one of those things I'd been skeptical of until I'd experienced it for myself. I wasn't sure if I' ( Read more... )

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I'm feeling seasick again ( Read more... )