The Chronicle of Higher Education published an article today that highlights a fortuitous, yet unplanned, outcome for an academic who maintains a academic blog.
In a moment of reflection he published his thoughts on a mutant plant gene and went on about his day. But as the Chronicle continues:
“Six months later a plant geneticist at the University California at Davis contacted Mr. Cartwright after reading his post. The California researcher said that he had coincidentally arrived at the same hypothesis offered by Mr. Cartwright, and that he was about to …

The New Me
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This is my alter ego in Second Life, Zapp Aeon. I freely admit the name has a total sci fi geek ring to it. The origin is a combination of two cartoon characters: Aeon Flux and Zapp Brannigan from Family Guy. I can’t say I resemble either in personality, but I’m happy with my Second Life persona nonetheless.