Getting Started

If Seinfeld was a show about nothing then I suppose this can be a blog about nothing. We are all part of a cast of characters that encompasses the world of biology. Our world. We are all scientists as science is the process of discovery. We have all spent our lives discovering the world around us. Some times for better and some times for worse. Science formalizes this process by recording our discoveries, subjecting them to the critical scrutiny of others, and then reporting them in an archival way to be accessible to all. A barrier to science is language, though good scientists can communicate their discoveries in ways we all can understand.

Making scientific discovery available to the public at large is one of the missions of the National Science Foundation. My career as a scientist has been supported for a number of years by the National Science Foundation and this blog is a way for me to show my appreciation for that support.

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