Spring Break 2009! Time for explosive fun in the Florida sun, alchoholic daydreams, stupid promiscuity, and pointless debauchery. Or if you are a nerd like me, time for staying on campus with your girlfriend and doing pretty much nothing. For the past half-week, I have been staying up inexcusably late, just wasting time. Last night specifically, I watched the seven final episodes of Firefly , the failed space Western that later returned in the form of a kick butt movie called Serentity . I ...

In evolutionary studies, genetic drift refers to the inevitability, without selection, for an allele to become fixed in a population just by chance. In 1931, a scientist named Sewell Wright demonstrated that the probabilty one allele will be fixed over another is determined by that allele's initial frequency in the population. So, let's play a game. Do you agree with allowing of stem-cell research? If so, add 1. If not, subtract 1. The first number reached -20 or +20, ends the game. That idea...

  I've been stressing over this for hours!