Archive for January 2010

45. Football, Cake, Fruit and Decision-Making

Commenting on Brett Farve’s performance in the Vikings vs. the Saints game;  rehearsing the results of a fascinating study on the mechanisms involved in decision-making; offering some pointer on improving our decision-making

44. Challenges, Relief, Destruction and Resilience

Recounting the interesting investigations at work; commenting on Haiti; recalling the 20/20 interview with Katie Piper; celebrating her resilience.

43. Human-ness, Switches, Genes, and Intellectual Suicide

Reviewing the second half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; considering the statistical analysis on the one percent difference between humans and chimpanzees;  marveling at the number of “human accelerated regions” in the human genome; considering the intellectual suicide that is inherent in theory of atheistic evolution.   (Oops, people didn’t believe in […]

42. Diversity, Mice, Genomes and Kings

Recalling the amazing diversity of life; rehearsing interesting portions of the first half of the Nova program “What Darwin Never Knew”; remember that we all battle with the flesh and the spirit.