Hey! Remember that seven year old blogger who writes about paleozoic creatures? He's going to be eight, and he knows what he wants for his birthday: A trip to the Field Museum at the University of Chicago. Friends and family are trying to raise money so he can go.
Wait a minute…I haven't been to the Field Museum, either, despite having been to Chicago several times in the last few years. What's wrong with me? I should be telling you to pay for my trip!
No, I'll be altruistic: contribute to the young man's dreams and inspire him to be a scientist when he grows up. I'll just try to get their on my own — I'm a big boy now, I have an income and everything.
(Also on FtB)
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Thursday through Sunday, I happened to be in Chicago for the Society of Surgical Oncology annual meeting. Leave it to surgeons to schedule a meeting the weekend before St. Patrick's Day in Chicago.
In Chicago.
In late winter, 1979, I knew an architecture student at the University
of Michigan. She wanted some pictures of buildings, in
downtown Chicago, for a presentation she had to do. She was
from Chicago, but did not have a car and did not have a camera.
Kim Krisberg and I are with our public health colleagues this week at the 143rd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association (APHA).
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