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After being buggery-augered with no lube by the New England Journal of Medicine's finest, it's refreshing for us minions of Big Bad Pharma and our small company lampreys to read an article in that august journal which moves beyond Angellic knee jerk histrionics.
Alastair J.J. Wood, M.D. offers a…
Petals and sepals...do you know what your buds are watching?
Please see The Perry Bible Fellowship for more of Nicholas Gurewitch's comic strips.
A pant-hoot of appreciation goes to SiBling Karmen of Chaotic Utopia for reminding me of this bit of florotica.
Madison WI - Members of the Oconomowoc Happy Hoes Garden Club were outraged during a horticulturally themed tour of the University of Wisconsin campus. When the ladies viewed the UW-Madison Botany Garden near Birge Hall, many gasped and one fainted upon viewing the Essence installation. "I am…
What movie do you think does something admirable (though not necessarily accurate) regarding science? Bonus points for answering whether the chosen movie is any good generally....
My tastes in sci-fi movies are similar to PZ's, and likewise, are indefensible. Heck, I'm a fan of SciFi Originals,…
My elder kid and I returned yesterday from Madison, Wisconsin where he spent a couple of days taking placement tests and becoming oriented and advised. Poor guy. He is in some danger of being pegged as a reviled "Coastie." . Fortunately, he belongs to an uber-nerd species whose habits and…
Here's an orgy, or to put it more chastely, a dance of Delosperma cooperi, common name, hardy ice plant.
This specimen, which grows happily in Einsteinville, is a member of the Aizoaceae family (stone plants), and related to Carpobrotus edulis, the ice plant which spread through California. The…
When Gleevec hit the market in 2001 for chronic myelogenous leukemia , it was hailed as a major breakthrough in cancer treatment. Gleevec, which inhibits bcr-abl kinase, was the harbinger of targeted chemotherapy and represented a departure from the cytotoxics which, although effective, possess a…
Last night's Simpson's episode was a repeat of "The Monkey Suit" (HABF14) which first aired in May, and I recall this was hashed over a bit here before SciBlogs bloated outwards in June. But hey, as the most boring woman on Earth, I'm inclined to be repetitive, redundant even. Here's the…
Who says that only chimps, bonobos and other receptive primates sport livid pink genital swellings? Check out this Dragon's Wing begonia.
Photo courtesy of my 18 year old son who fortunately is of an age to engage in such lurid photography.
So the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a press release, and the media bleats "FDA Scientists Blast Agency Priorities." In the interest of brevity, the qualifier that these blasts emanated from 20% of those surveyed was omitted. Presumably, the other 80% were cowed into submission by their…
As an avid fan of pop culture, I do not hesitate to induce neural necrosis by watching all manner of television and film. The SciFi network gets my business, particularly for their goofy SciFi Originals with their bad special effects and has-been actors in lead roles. So, I am quivering with…
Here's a salacious image from my little corner of the Garden State.
Just look at that yearning pistil and those turgid stamens. Ooooh, baby! Here's the full shot of the flowers.
Part of my rather checkered undergrad majors included botany. My interest in plant physiology shoved me in the…
Remember the Burma Shave ads which once lined the bygone US highways? The signs with such catchy poetry as...
It has a tingle
And a tang
That starts
The day off
With a bang.
Apparently the Champaign County Rifle Association is all in favor of starting the day off with a bang. While in Illinois…
I'm on the road and visiting the Midwestern homelands. This evening, I'm in Madison where a former classmate (and longtime friend) and I will join our grad advisor and his wife for dinner. The newly minted professor emeritis doesn't know that we're showing up so the element of surprise should be…
"Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo, a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some FRIGGIN' SLACK?"
Dr. Stanley Goodspeed's outburst to John Mason…
Taking a cue from Coturnix's Weird Sex Friday fun entry (har), here's a snippet from Ananova which is making the blogosphere rounds. The world's oldest surviving condom has gone on display at the Tirolean County Museum in Austria. From the article...
The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and…
and a nod to a new comic strip.
Yesterday evening as I drove along the allee of American elms which marks the passage from US Route 1 to Einsteinville's famous campus, I saw fireflies rising from the grass in the adjacent fields. On the eve of the summer solstice, here were the true harbingers of…
Doc Bushwell here, pharmaceutical bogeyperson of the fast food-pharma-medical establishments' collusion against the fundamentalist fat activists (FFAs). Yes, that's right. We bench monkey pharma researchers lie awake at night, tossing, turning and vigorously scratching our nether regions, while…
I have the great fortune of attending yet another protracted managerial development class for the entirety of this coming week. I can't tell you how delighted I am to be doing this. Do I need to add another scoop to the pile of steaming sarcasm? Most scientists I know in the corporate world…
Yikes! An "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question already? Well, had I been a SciBlog some weeks ago, I would have quickly answered in response to the question (paraphrasing here), "Which modern technology should not have been invented?" My answer: pantyhose. They are the garments of pure unadulterated…
What a day! Between the scintillating launch of the new blogs (really, I am all aquiver) and doing my best to be irksome in my actual day job, I am more than ready to knock back a dry vodka (Grey Goose, preferably) martini at my favored watering hole in Einsteinville.
Part of my job is to pass…
So here we are, ready and willing to amiably groom our readers or grimace at them in fierce display. But for now, we are pretty darned excited to be here, and hence, the pant-hooting.
In January, I slapped up some commentary pertaining to Science Blogs, advertising, and Leonardos on my now…