Of Paper and Ponies (and Science!)

Scientist. Biologist. Pretty hardcore into developmental biology, but love it all. Not quite done with school - hopefully finishing up soon. Can’t wait to get finished with Uni and get back to the lab bench.

Really into gingers, lava, animals (especially cows, squirrels, birds, and bears), music, culture, medical science, and the juxtaposition of beautiful/hideous in life. Sometimes into philosophy, crafting, history, and the Oxford comma.

I’m sort of crazy but mostly benign and odd. I love my cats and my guy (who is crazy enough to teach elementary school; I see that as far crazier than me). Expect a mix of the bizarre, vintage, skeptical, and sciency. I switch between intellectual and thoughtful, geeky and over-technical, and crass and sardonic fairly frequently. It’ll probably wear on you pretty quickly.

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I make no representations of this blog as anything more than a distraction from my everyday life. :)

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Even the sceptical mind must be prepared to accept the unacceptable when there is no alternative. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.

-Douglas Adams; Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-Carl Sagan, 1987

If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D’Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God.

-Thomas Jefferson; letter to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814

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