by root | Jan 10, 2013 | Academia
I thought I would share with you today a bit about my work at Montana State University: How I go about getting extremophiles from Yellowstone National Park to work with in the lab. The first step is to have a research objective. Â In my case it is to sample from...
by root | Jan 7, 2013 | Humor, Psychology
One day, at the first bike shop I worked at, a customer learned my name and used it in a friendly manner. This took me from being a friendly sales person to wanting to be his friend and help him get whatever he wanted — incredible! I have always been bad with names,...
by root | Jan 3, 2013 | Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle Design
Recently I was listening to NPR’s Science Friday where guest Ray Kurzweil was suggesting that in as little at 20 years, nano-sized computers would be in our bodies, augmenting our minds with the entirety of the knowledge on the internet that would be...
by root | Dec 30, 2012 | Lifestyle Design
I am going to take a chance here to do something I have never done and  publicly share my goals for 2013.  I figure the best way to be accountable for my goals is to post them publicly!  Any feedback is appreciated — some of these goals seem easier to me than...
by root | Dec 25, 2012 | Money
Since we are drawing to the end of the year and making new goals for 2013 and evaulating 2012, I thought I would share with you one of my goals for 2012: Making money in at least five different ways. In addition to my graduate studies, I wanted to experiment with...