Strange things happening at my work and an experience in the classroom that I had today have me thinking about an article I read in my first semester of business school entitled On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping …
Today is my last day of my second 12 week Body for Life (BFL) challenge. I completed my first one in November and immediately started a second 12 week cycle. Overall, in 24 weeks, I am down about 20 lbs …
Maggie has a great post today about achieving success on the Body For Life (BFL) plan. Maggie is an un-ashamed perfectionist who has utterly transformed her body on the BFL plan. When I started BFL in August 2004, I began …
Condoleezza Rice was just confirmed as our newest Secretary of State. While I don’t agree with her politics, I love her achievement. Here’s a non-white woman who was (1) born in the segregated south, (2) speaks a half dozen foreign …
I am teaching a class on human genetics for non-science major undergraduate students. It’s part of a three quarter long series covering “the past”, “the present” and “the future”. I teach “the present”. This is the second year that I …
Although the East Coast is getting slammed by snow, here in Colorado the weather today was cloudless blue skies and a warm 65 degrees. Since today was a running day, I decided to try my running outside. Since I began …
There is a fine line between honesty and compassion. I have a very difficult time finding balance between these values. I tend to personally value honesty a bit more and thus tend to draw the line closer to pure unadulterated …
The University of Denver, through their "Bridges to the Future" program, recently hosted Denver’s Three Mayors. Our current mayor, John Hickenlooper, was joined by two past Denver mayors, Wellington Webb and Federico Pena, to talk about economic development in the …
I have been thinking a lot lately about goal setting. This is not because I have been planning to make any New Year’s resolutions, but because I think that setting specific goals is critical to success. I started my “body …
My life is a work in progress. This blog is place for me to track the various and disparate things that interest me. As a full time scientific researcher, it seems like my projects are never finished; they just move …