http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/Web-log.html Most of the time this is just about how my pack sits in the corner of my garage. It is generally packed with the things I need to get away from it all at a moment’s notice. Within minutes I could be out the door and onto a trail somewhere in the world. Problem is that I have to work most of the time. Fortunately for me I love my work - it is almost like a hike in the wilderness at times. My students, my friends, and my family are the bits and pieces of a life - my life - but not wholly mine. iWeb 1.1.2 http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/Web-log_files/image.png http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/Web-log.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/8AE80116-A37A-4311-83CE-8BBCBFC68CEC.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/8AE80116-A37A-4311-83CE-8BBCBFC68CEC.html Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:27:06 -0500 I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. This probably has its roots in the fact that I don’t like the mad rush you see in the rec and wellness center just after January first. It’s the only time of year yo http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/B2799F88-3B4F-46CF-A1FC-FB8D2F8A5D85.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/B2799F88-3B4F-46CF-A1FC-FB8D2F8A5D85.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:25:30 -0500 Most of life’s thinking moments seem to be getting quieter. Although at first glance this statement may seem a bit oxymoronic in the context of the ever increasing pace of modern life. It now seems th http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/F8BF256A-5B9B-4AAD-A665-A2D4D6718323.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/F8BF256A-5B9B-4AAD-A665-A2D4D6718323.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:03:06 -0500 Sometimes the most interesting and potentially insidious science happens for the best of reasons. For more than a decade psychologists have been waiting for geneticists to figure out which genes are i http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/81F906A8-131B-4E99-B2E0-47D99DCA44BB.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/81F906A8-131B-4E99-B2E0-47D99DCA44BB.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:59:17 -0500 According to a recent announcement in the New England Journal of Medicine it will soon be possible to conduct most of the interesting forms of stem cell research in the United States and many other co http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/567F04FE-BAD2-44EA-A5C7-6E9EC68EBD6D.html http://web.mac.com/bjwebb/iWeb/Burt/Web-log/567F04FE-BAD2-44EA-A5C7-6E9EC68EBD6D.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:54:02 -0500 If you watch the commercials running on television during the daytime you might get the idea that the most pressing problem in the United States today is not the war on terror, homelessness, illiterac