YAD (yet another delay) 16 Nov 201716 Nov 2017 The Author, in repose. So, I have been lax in posting lately. I ate’nt dead. I have been checking the proofs for my book, revising a chapter in a book, and revising a paper on species (or the lack of them as a theoretical category). Also, I’ve been running the AAHPSSS website and helping with the conference. Which is next week. So, despite retirement, I’m as busy as if I had a job, only without the awful problems of having, you know, an income. But I will get back to the 50 words series soon. In the meantime, I will post the occasional short piece as it hits me. Administrative
Administrative I get email 15 Mar 2011 Only one of the very many things I share with PZ Myers (apart from the success, the job, the handsomeness, the youth, and the Trophy Wife™) is that occasionally I get emails from crackpots. When you get an email whose Subject line is Fw: Tidal Wave Hit Japan and Alaska… Read More
Administrative Ideas for papers 19 Jul 2009 So I was reading through some of my colleagues’ bibliographies recently and getting mildly depressed at their productivity relative to mine, and wondering, what can I do to publish more papers? And it hit me: I need to write my papers in haiku. When I recovered from that image, I… Read More
Administrative I get email 25 Nov 2007 Unlike PZ Moorsch, I don’t get much abusive email, because I’m so much more mild mannered than he is. But I got this gem from an Australian using his cousin’s South African email account: your feedback on the one subject of macroevolution being observed is only grounded on consumptions and… Read More