Month: May 2007

  • Lines of the Millennium

    From someone who didn’t live to see it: We got have peace To keep the world alive And war to cease. We got to have joy, True in our hearts With strength we can’t destroy. People please hear us Through our voice the world knows There’s no choice. We’re begging save the children The little…

    Categories:
  • Whole lotta Hadrons

    Speaking of reducing things to little tiny bits: both the New Yorker and the Times have recently featured nice articles on CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider. Mmm… Hadrons…

    Categories:
  • Back to Stem Cells

    The confusion around stem cells is due, I think, in large part to a fundamental misunderstanding of the function of DNA. In the popular mind, DNA contains a complete description of a person’s body. From this perspective, the DNA in the 100 or so stem cells in a balstocyst fully describe what the person will…

    Categories:
  • Hey Nagel–not done with you yet!

    The more alert among you will have long ago noticed that the cyberkrunk blog is, at its core, an extended rumination on the mind-body problem in the guise of chatty posts about pop music, restaurants and movies, all expressed in the language of a writing style I invented some time ago called “Gonzo Prufrock”. Since…

    Categories: