..wherein I participate in the kind of game that keeps the regular bloggers blogging up a storm and drags the very-occasional-bloggers back to blog on their blogs now and again. Blaaaaaaaahg!! I actually have a real post welling up in me that I might get out tonight… political convention season usually gets me ready to […]
I’m snipping this and posting it here just so I have a place to refer people when they ask, as they sometimes do, what the hell the appeal is of Twitter (for me, at least). This nails it: Twitter is a social network, yes, but it’s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise […]
This summer, my college buddy Philip Haar will be riding his bike cross-country alongside his father to raise money for cancer research in honor of a family friend: The scourge of cancer either has or soon will touch everyone’s life in a very personal way. We hope that by establishing the James D. Popp Student […]
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 […]
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 […]
OK, I realize this makes two posts in a row that involve breasts, but this one’s far less controversial… On November 4th, I’ll be running my fourth consecutive Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, probably the biggest breast cancer awareness & fundraising event in the country. This year is especially meaningful for me because […]