When I was on jury duty, one of my fellow jurors was a lab tech at USC working on a very impressive project. They use a mouse model to study a genetic condition that causes the photoreceptors (rods and cones) in the retina to degenerate. Where it gets...
That is, I am juror number six, unless I get dismissed tomorrow (we're still in the selection process, but I made the first cut).
The LA superior court blocks livejournal and facebook, though, so I won't be liveblogging it.
I like doing my civic...
As Bioephemera notes (short), This article (long) makes some interesting points about graduate education, academic self-propagation, and related topics. It's a bit dry, but an interesting read... in addition to the point about academic inbreeding...
A lack of correlation between high IQ and good decision-making doesn't surprise me much:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?full=true
