Paul Ryan, it’s time to go home
It has now been a full year since the elections that brought a morally reprehensible person into the White House. By now, any remaining negligible hope that the man who was elected president might...
View ArticlePrayer works–or does it? Shall we ask the murdered?
No sooner had I penned my piece exposing the hypocrisy and weak-kneed leadership of Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, when he has made new headlines with another smug, holier-than-thou, awful...
View ArticleA Sad Sign of the Times
This past week, my graduate student, my post-doctoral fellow, and I flew out to Philadelphia for the annual American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) meeting. This 2017 meeting was my 20th year as an...
View ArticleReversing Copernicus
The revolutionary advance in our understanding of the universe, as proposed by Copernicus. Donald Trump heads the single most anti-science administration that has ever set foot in the White House. It...
View ArticleAnother school shooting–will anything change?
It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep one’s nose to the grindstone and carry on in America of 2018 as though everything is okay. That’s because it isn’t. I have to be optimistic—and despite...
View ArticleUGG: The Undergraduate Guide for Graduate School
It’s been a fast-paced and hectic summer, but I am pleased to have finally completed and published a new e-book/e-manual titled: UGG: the Undergraduate Guide for Graduate School* Sensing that many...
View ArticleWhen truth meets “feelings”
And behind the curtain is…?!!! As human beings, we are taught (perhaps except in the era of Trump) about the importance of respecting others, and being sensitive to their views and feelings. Overall,...
View ArticleSometimes science needs to take a backseat
Science is based on fundamental, objective truth. So sometimes, in support of science, it is necessary to step back and take a moral stand. Here is my letter to Nebraskan Senator Ben Sasse (republican,...
View ArticleTears for lives and an ideal lost
Mindlessly meandering down Dodge Tears flowing like blood oozing from an arterial wound Lies and lunatics, spiraling out of control And all decency unmoored, with no captain at the moral helm Red...
View ArticleReinventing the Wheel
CRISPR /Cas9 gene-editing: staying on top of technology is a full-time job for researchers New Year’s Eve has always been more of a time for reflection for me, rather than a time for partying. Perhaps...
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