Making progress

Writing a paper is an iterative process. Figure out what my point is, start writing, change my point, adjust my writing, repeat. The process of rewriting the methods makes me realize it would be better to analyze the data a different way, so I do the analysis over which makes me realize that I need to modify not only my methods but also my conclusions. The new conclusion requires an additional analysis and therefore a further modified conclusion. Writing is very much like sculpture in that it is not so much a question of getting it perfect as getting it good enough that it isn't worth changing.

Biodemography poem

http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/~dlevitis/213ex1

Art Show of Science!

This coming Friday at 5PM in VLSB is the Integrative Biology Art and Science Show. Food. Drink. Science inspired art.

All are invited.

A good time is guaranteed for most.

(Also, it is not too late to submit your own art to the show.)

Art of Science!

My department every year has an Art and Science show (This year it is the 4th Annual IB Art & Science Show, April 25, 2008. 5PM in VLSB. Open to the public, food and drink provided.)

Submissions are supposed to be artworks inspired by, related to, or otherwise modified by science.

I was thinking about what to submit when someone (alias Plastic Devil Ducky) posted a bag of Legos on Freecycle. So my submission will be a Lego rotifer (with egg). The difficult part was finding pieces from a pirate ship and a space station that could be made to look like cilia.