" – TO BE CONTINUED – "

An update on our lawsuit to defend Rock Creek Hills Park is available.

Opera in a barn (continued): Rossini and Verdi

At 10 AM tomorrow (Saturday), tickets go on sale for the Summer season at Wolf Trap, including opera at the Barns.

(2011)

Is it wrong?

Is it wrong to love covet admire a bike for its fenders?

Bucky Will See You Now. [Pi Day Dog-Blogging!]

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Title of the Week!

The article "The dilemmas of the gourmet fly: the molecular and neuronal mechanisms of feeding and nutrient decision making in Drosophila" appears in the journal "Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience."

Thank you for giving me control of your brain!

Spring? A head. (Fallback.) [Early March Dog-Blogging!]

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Remember my laryngitis?

It resulted in a number of epiphanies! I wrote about what I learned about communication by not speaking, just published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Here's an excerpt:

Losing my voice for several days was a fascinating exercise. I gleaned empathy for people who cannot speak, express themselves immediately, or yell for help. My biggest epiphany was around questions: I was distressed that I could not ask my husband about his day, what he was reading, or what he was telling me. I thought a lot about how questions express interest and how they also influence conversation. I realized that questions are about helping the person questioned be heard and better understood; they can also be about selfishly amplifying the voice of the questioner.

And here's the full link.

Help Preserve Rock Creek Hills Park.

Supporters of Rock Creek Hills Park have contributed to the ongoing legal effort to enforce federal, state, and county park protection laws and overturn a decision to obliterate the park. We've come really far, but there's much more to do.

Learn more at SaveRockCreekHillsPark.org.

Thank you.

"Caveman."

From the Washington Post interview with former National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni, on the sequester:

"Q: That answers one possible defense of the cuts, which is that the scientists could just go work for private industry instead. 

A: That’s ridiculous. That’s the most ridiculous, caveman statement I’ve ever heard. That’s not the way science works. Science works with bright young people who are attracted to science. ... Research is an investment, it’s not an expense."