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First Aid and CPR for Hypochondriacs
When I heard the announcement, I knew that it was the right thing to do. How could it not be? What could be of more value, functionally and educationally, than doing a first aid + CPR course with my 10...
View ArticleFrustrated, Flummoxed and (just plain) Fed-up
I am sick of the middle-east–or more accurately, the middle-east is making me sick. I have spent a good deal of my adult life actively defending the State of Israel; both by bearing arms in the...
View ArticleReverse genetics, ok, but reverse shoplifting?
Most of us in the biomedical sciences will be familiar with the term coined “reverse genetics-” namely the use of DNA sequences to understand the function of a gene by testing for phenotypes. But how...
View ArticleOut of control
The tragic, premature and incomprehensible loss of so many young lives due to the horrific shootings recently in Connecticut are a blight on American society. Unfortunately, this is not a new thing,...
View ArticleMore on creative self-promotion…
Shameless. Simply shameless. But last chance for 2012…. Matter Over Mind and Welcome Home, Sir
View ArticleLegacy 2012
Having just read poor Stephen’s “Year” I must admit that since Wed. I am not faring any better. My lymph nodes feel like coconuts, and my head feels as though someone keeps inflating balloons under my...
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Getting the boot–entropy in the absence of enforcement
6 pm on a cold Thursday evening, I bundled myself out of the research tower and headed down 3 flights of stairs to the car park. I moved to this new parking lot a year ago, and have been extremely...
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I (DON’T!) smell gas…
Our fireplace, recently. Do you smell gas?! What a day! What a week! What a month, and it’s only halfway through. In my nearly 10 years as a PI, I have not yet had a month with so much juggling. Four...
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Canada then and now: If you are sick, see a doctor!
I’ve been to Canada many times over the past few years, including a visit this summer to that stellar city of the prairies, the center of Canadian Siberia, Winnipeg. So cold, in fact, that while...
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Experiments, hypotheses, volcanoes, newtons and free downloads
It’s been an exciting week of experiments: in the lab and at home for my son’s school science fair—and for the psychology of marketing. But I’ll come to that later. Let’s start at the annual school...
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If you think you are sick of me now…
I will write about topics that are dear to me, that have meaning. I promise. But not until the following blog. For now, those of you who dare click to read-on, will have to endure tales of my most...
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Science education: the generalist vs the specialist
Well, here I am. I promised. No funny pictures and weird self-promotion campaigns. Just a blog about a topic that might interest some of us in the sciences. I was discussing the writing of an...
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Parental pride–and a lesson in resilience by a brilliant scientist
When I answered my phone this past week, I found myself frequently saying, “Caplan’s Cabbies.” My partner being out of town leaves me ‘in the driver’s seat,’ literally and figuratively, regarding all...
View ArticleLet My People Go!
This evening being Passover, and me being an admitted anti-socialite Israelite who eschews any connection with organized religion–I find it necessary to search for my own unique way to celebrate. This...
View ArticleAre scientists becoming an endangered species? The way we live–now
What spurred me to put pen-to-paper, if that phrase has any remaining meaning, was reading about the recent proposals at the US National Institutes of Health to again revamp the grant review system....
View ArticleThe scientist as a squirrel
What does one need to obtain grant funding in these tough times? *Overcoming obstacles *Fierce determination *Exceptional creativity and ingenuity *Proof of feasibility *Above all, persistence and...
View ArticleNew meanings for protein structures-combining art and science
I have been blogging on and off these past couple years about science and art, art and science. And all of the sudden I came across this phenomenal art form by Ph.D. student, Maja Klevanski, as...
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Hi tech solutions for building demolition/renovation
I just hope they left the right people alone in the correct room!
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