Infertile Crescent
That on the two parallel banks of the Tigris and of the Euphrates bad weeds should grow, that no one should set out on the road, that no one should seek out the highway,...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Never Being Kissed
Villagers don’t kiss anymore in a corner of Democratic Republic of Congo hit by the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.People began falling ill in April in Kampungu, Western Kasai province, centre of an...
Shangri-Lame
Few Tibetans would welcome a return of the corrupt aristocratic clans that fled with [the Dalai Lama] in 1959 and that comprise the bulk of his advisers. Many Tibetan farmers, for example, have no...
Let Them Eat Pelagibacter
We are running out of fish to eat, so apparently we will have to begin harvesting other oceanic biomass sources. I suggest going right to the source and figuring out how to turn Pelagibacter...
Yippee Ki Yay Puppetfucker
After Die Hard, the Puppet Show, can Point Break, the Claymation be far behind? More here.
Phlebotomised!
Post-pre-med, day 4 has come and gone. Tuesday was administrivia for the most part, Wednesday was more of the same with some explanations of faculty structure and an intro to the surprisingly secure medical...
Post-Pre-Med, Day 1
Today was the first day of the “pre-term” session, which mainly consists of starting by telling everyone how wonderful they are to be becoming doctors and to have been selected and all that stuff,...
Meehawl 2.0
Well things have been busy. I moved me and a bunch of crap from the east coast to the west coast of the United States of America. When I got my driving groove on,...