Friday, July 27, 2007

Atheist brothel bellman

5 comments:

T Bethell said...

The one on the left is Thomas, the one on the right is Bethell, but the one is the middle is definitely not Libertan.

I'm actually rather fond of the WISE Orion hologram.

Dear Teaching Evolution enthusiasts,

I will be giving a public talk a week from today. It will include a
general introduction to the field of evolution and development
("evo-devo") and highlights of my dissertation research. The title is:

"Tales from the fish's mouth: Bmp genes in the evolution and development
of vertebrate teeth".

The talk will be on October 27, at 4 pm, in the N1B23 lecture hall in
Ramaley Biology on the CU campus. At 3:30, coffee and snacks will be
available in Ramaley N240. A longer reception in N240 will follow the
talk, at 5pm. If you plan on coming, please let me know (for estimating
# cookies needed).Drop-ins welcome as well.

Cheers, Sarah Wise

T Bethell said...

A quick check. Sarah Wise and Jessica Metcalf are still both grad students.

I volunteered to work with Heather Swanson one summer; i thought I'd be counting birds but it turned out I would be collecting dead insects. The chap I worked alongside was called (quite ridiculously) Ty Tuff. He now is a grad student with the great Alexander Cruz. Not to be confused with Alexander Lazarian.

This may be the only time the Splantrik-Translator-Libertan love triangle is complete.

Translator said...

Hmmm...very interesting. Going on six years now - I started grad school with Sara and Jess in August of 2001. I should drop them a line.

The great Alexander Cruz is indeed great. My thesis advisor, he's a great friend and a great scientist. Heather Swanson was an excellent lab mate, although I never had the pleasure of collecting insects for her.

I'm not sure I'll be able to make it to Sara's talk - oh, well.

The love triangle is quite obtuse.

Splantrik said...

No, I think it's quite a cute one. The man in the middle looks a bit like Philip "Skippy" R., Marnie's bro.

Libertan said...

That bro's a great guy, and well traveled.

Heather seemed like a good scientist, however, I doubt she understands the finer points of Green's functions as a method for solving linear radiative transfer problems. I once saw a Taylor expansion (truncated at the second term) in a biology talk; but that's about it. the only good use for Universities is the teaching of the hard sciences.

As for the love triangle, I think translator and Splantrik give it a cute angle. fortunately this topic won't be revisited.