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“I only know what I know
The passing years will show
You kept my love so young
So new…”
-Styne & Cahn - “Time After Time”
Sometimes science is about quantifying or providing evidence to support a hypothesis that is fairly obvious. Some people call this “no duh” science; my boss is a bit more colorful - she calls such […]

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“I think I’m so educated and I’m so civilized
cos I’m a strict vegetarian
But with the over-population and inflation and starvation
And the crazy politicians
I don’t feel safe in this world no more
I don’t want to die in a nuclear war
I want to sail away to a distant shore and make like an ape man
I’m an ape […]

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“My old addictionChanged the wiring in my brainSo that when it turns the switchesThen I am not the same…”-David Wilcox - “My Old Addiction”I quit smoking in January of this year, shortly after we found out Dr O’C was pregnant. The idea of smoking around my child was the straw that knocked the monkey of […]

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Today, I’m starting a new feature here at chrisdellavedova.com - trying my hand at scientific writing for a lay audience. Each week I’ll try to distill an article or two from one of the big scientific journals. This new theme corresponds a bit with a recent post about career goals, so I would be eternally […]

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“Hey farmer farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got
Till its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot…”
Joni Mitchell - “Big Yellow Taxi”
A freshwater dolphin, known as the baiji, indigenous to the Yangtze River […]

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