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I have been following an excellent blog lately. It is called Inspiring Science, and it is really, really good.
I am hardly an unbiased commenter, of course. You see, I love science. I love its deep complexity yet totally understandable character while at the same time recognizing that there are people in all walks of life who may not have been exposed to science or have the wrong idea of what science is about. Part of the reason why I blog is that I want to help, and so does the Inspiring Science blog, check out its “About” page!
It also helps that it is very well written of course…
I was reading it a couple of days ago and it posted a very interesting question, framed on “…the questions that people search for before landing on (a) blog”. He got the idea from another blog, Do you speak science?
That post somehow reminded me of (what else?) biological connections. In nature, everything is connected and nowhere is this more evident that in a biological system. It also reminded me a little of what that many of us felt last century (:-) when we started “surfing the web” (do they still say that?) and were like “wow!”, when we clicked here and there and oftentimes we forgot where we started browsing.
Anyway, what brought you here? How did you find the “Baldscientist” blog? Tell me your story!
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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  1. I think I ended up here after you commented on my blog. I clicked on your name, found this blog and stuck around… 🙂

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  2. As you may well know (?) — I think you may have commented on my blog–for which I am grateful. There is a lot of good insight in your posts. Even though I lean towards the chemical aspects of science–I find biology to be refreshing.

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