My birthday cake created by my kids (with help from my mother). It features a whale shark, a starfish, an octopus, and bioluminescent plankton/animalcules.
Author: Josh Witten
http://www.thefinchandpea.com
I’m Old(er)
Today is my birthday.
Thank you.
On average, I’m not old, but there is significant variance across my body. Certain joints etc. have accrued a bit more mileage over the years. To celebrate my birthday, I’ve created an illustrated annotation of all the significant injuries I’ve suffered over a variety of activities (color coded for the most major contributors).
The underlying drawing is a badly modified version (to make up for bad photography) of a pencil drawing of me playing rugby that my mother gave me as a college graduation gift.
You can hear me tell a story about the “face stomping” incident here.
Science for The People: Science & the Death Penalty
This week, Science for The People looks at the science of the ultimate criminal punishment. Pharmacologist and science writer David Kroll discusses the chemistry of the drugs used in lethal injections. They talk to law professor Samuel Gross, editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, about the rates of false convictions in death penalty cases. And they speak to Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist Dr. James Harris about the complex issues at the intersection of capital punishment and intellectual disability.
AP Sex Ed
Sex education should address the intersection of biology, interpersonal relationships, and society with a backing of solid science. It should and can be sex positive without promoting irresponsible behavior – indeed quality sex education leads to more responsible behavior. Quality sex education can also be aesthetically pleasing, as Carlin Soos demonstrates with “AP Sex Ed”.
Intuition
This. A thousand times this.
It just feels right.
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