Monthly Archives: April 2017

Normally, I laugh at the foibles of some of the more insular parts of the science community.   After all, some studies are born to be scorned (see Twitter, New Real Peer Review @RealPeerReview).   But this? This is evil. Over 100 cancer research studies retracted because of peer review fraud– that is, the peer […]

A friend took this picture, it’s a place I will never be visiting. It’s not far from here, apparently, in the mountains.  It’s a small village, and part of it is only accessible via this bamboo and steel cable footbridge. There is a church here. They recently had a gospel meeting and afterward had a […]

Taaaaa-hoooo! Every morning between 8 and 9 the man comes walking briskly down the road, pole across his shoulders, a galvanized metal bucket with lid at each end. He is selling taho, a drink of warm, freshly made tofu, sago pearls and a home brewed brown sugar syrup. I offered to buy some for the […]

In 1963, Flannery O’Connor addressed the claim that “students do not like to read the fusty works of the nineteenth century, that their attention can best be held by novels dealing with their realities of our own time.” Her response: “English teachers come in Good, Bad, and Indifferent, but too frequently in high schools anyone […]