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A. J. V.

About Me

"Ah, there's nothing more exciting than science. You get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet, writing down numbers, paying attention...haha...science has it all." - P.S. Skinner

What is a structural biologist; what do we do and how do we do it?

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Pictured L to R: Aristotle, Anaximander, Democritus, Pythagoras, L. da Vinci, G. Galilei, C. Ptolemy, N. Copernicus, T. Brahe, J. Kepler, I. Newton, J.C. Maxwell, C.R. Darwin, A.R. Wallace, L. Pauling, A.L. Patterson, W.L. Bragg, W.H. Bragg, M. Perutz, G. Friedel, W.H. Miller, D.C. Hodgkin, A. Bravais, M. von Laue, R. Franklin, D. Harker, A. Einstein, E. Fermi, S.J. Gould, L.S.B. Leakey, G. Mendel, D.I. Mendeleev, A. van Leeuwenhoek, L. Pasteur, W.C. Roentgen, E.P. Rutherford, J. Horner, R. Dawkins, C. Sagan

My Blog

The most profound thought of my life...so far.

This is not so much an announcement to anyone but me so I don't forget.  So maybe one day I can look back and think a) I was dead right or b) dead wrong (there's no real middle ground).  Wha...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:46:00 GMT

January 24, 2008

I had my prelimary exam/defense Thursday.  It is essentially a 3 hour oral examination and ball breaking festival where three members of your committee test you to see if you're bullshit or real ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:03:00 GMT

Installment One

The Dinosaur to Bird TransitionFirst things first, dinosaurs are not extinct. Dinosaurs should be classified into two categories..."non-avian dinosaurs" (what you think of when I say dinosaur, big rep...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:04:00 GMT

P.S.A.

WNED the local PBS affiliate in Toronto/Buffalo aired the NOVA documentary "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" during its annual funds drive Tuesday. To those who haven't seen it do so. It is ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:08:00 GMT

Where You From?

Anyone interested in vertebrate evolution, especially tetrapod evolution, check THIS paper out. I read the article several years ago when it was first published and decided to pose a question to the ...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:00:00 GMT