posts from December 2007

transition time

I’ve just concluded a really amazing three-and-a-half-year phase of my life. When I blogged about starting my job at Hoover’s in June 2004, I really had no idea just how much I’d learn and how many amazing professional and personal relationships I’d develop. Change is the only true constant in life, however, so tonight I’m […]

uh, no, not exactly

Science reporting isn’t an exact, um, science. In this article,”Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mouse,” my jaw dropped when I read this: Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse’s instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through […]