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Ktoznayet necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 56 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
USME.com - "Its us, its me, use me" (initially http://www.usme.com.au)
Its "Use-me" or "Usme" but either way its a call to action for "us" and "me" to "usme".
SME stands for "Small - Medium - Enterprise" and we're building a new site that offers some great online services for this hard working and dedicated backbone to our economy starting with travel information. To begin, we have a blog or community web site that ralsk all about it.
Unlike the corporate world, our site and identity is about you, people like you who create these great designs as a business. Come and share some knowledge, listen, watch and read about others and their travel experience. Tell others about it.
We start with the consumer or one that is thinking of starting a business or "Joe the plumber" and his hard working office assistant (wife and or partner) that do the work or look after what needs doing. You connect with http://www.usme.com.au, we "know" & support you because we know what you're going through & what you might need.
You're interested in sharing knowledge and information about travel to start with but also anything about small business and the issues. Feel free to tell us what you like or don't like, unload, take a weight off your mind and see if we can help.
Business grows & now you employ a few people, have an office & need to get more support but we're still there with you helping out in a fresh and happy way. Our site is available for you but we're not corporate & still a part of you.. we like to think we've been there ourselves. Some of your staff have now registered as well, we're giving you what you need as simple or as sophisticated as you need it.
Need the full collateral,
* business cards (front and back?, see below),
* letter head (for letter and invocies etc)
* A4 header/footer design so I could make brochrues/flyers
* envelope (address block etc)
Key points.
- Use logo art attached (AI, EPS) and check out possible themes (JPG's).
- PLEASE don't change the logo :-)
- Mimosa yellow is a core colour in product execution so try to work into some aspects of design.
- Happy to look at 2-sided designs for business cards but needs to be conventional size..
- Its a buisness so its still needs to look business like but excessive corporate or cyan blue is no-go and so is overwhelming red.
- Designs need to work with current contemporary best practice design, soft, white space, clean, simple.
- Needs to be elegant and lasting rather than cutting edge and hip, with allowance for ongoing evolution.
- Open to ideas relating to the "m" and how it may be used on its own as a device.
Business card must accommodate following (but may not always be used in each case);
For the person-
Phone Direct
Phone Mobile
For the compoany
Phone, switch or direct
Physical Address


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Get connected!
No matter what kind of Wow-Event you are planning, we are the partner at your side.
Find us on social media and follow us to keep yourself up-to-date!
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A well-rounded affair on all levels: The 360° central stage, in-the-round sound system, giant moving LED saucer, video rotunda, octagonal pyro truss, and movable LED octahedron were a big hit. Deli...
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satis&fy selected as preferred technology partner for the MCC Halle Münsterland Congress Centre
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Four new trainees embark on their career paths with the production company satis&fy

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January 2, 2013
Circle Mandelas
I was in need of a color fix. I spotted this drawing and pinned it months ago. Thought it looked like fun.
Used my cool compass and made a bunch of random arcs.
Played with all kinds of color-combinations. Enhanced the mandelas with my sharpie poster paints by applying dots. Lots….of….Dots.
I don't think I've ever drawn so many circles in my life. Dot circles…Outlined circles…Big and Little circles. Tiny circle dots inside of small circles dots. It was a Circle Circus!
As much as I would've preferred to showcase my 2 favorite colors (red & green). I knew that it needed more character.
Don't look too closely….some of the lines aren't closed and it's not perfectly colored in. This is where digital drawing would have it's advantages! But it works!
And….I kind of like it!
40 comments:
- jinxxxygirl said...
You might like it but i LOVE it! I just drool over all those details. Marvelous! Hugs! deb
- January 2, 2013 at 7:49 AM
I love everything about this! You are amazing.
Happy New Year!
- January 2, 2013 at 8:20 AM
- Peggy said...
Gorgeous work--love it!
- January 2, 2013 at 8:38 AM
- Stephanie said...
These are absolutely gorgeous! I love them.
- January 2, 2013 at 10:56 AM
- Janet said...
You like it??? I absolutely LOVE it!
- January 2, 2013 at 2:23 PM
- Eden said...
Thank YOU Deb, JP, Peggy, Stephanie and Janet! My color-girls :D
- January 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM
Wow! It's beautyfull!!
- January 3, 2013 at 2:25 AM
GORGEOUS!! Such detail! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!
Grandma Nancy Sapp
- January 3, 2013 at 8:26 AM
I would LOVE to know what markers you used besides the Sharpie ones?
Does the sharpie poster pens have that sharpie oder?
I would love to hear back from you.
- January 3, 2013 at 10:56 AM
- Trece said...
This is spectacular!! It inspires me to try it, also!! Thanks!
- January 3, 2013 at 2:08 PM
This is just amazing!!!
- January 3, 2013 at 5:21 PM
- Eden said...
@mrsdbvz @Nancy @Trece @Boo- Thanks for your kind comments :D
@Leah- Try the Bic Mark-it fine points (inexpensive), and fabercastell pit pens (they have a bunch of different colors and different Nib sizes.)....I always use the Black Faber Castell's for outlining....I should really do a post on this....Great Question! Hope this helps :D
- January 3, 2013 at 6:48 PM
- Unknown said...
You are so talented! Every little detail is so precise and beautiful and when it all comes together it looks exquisite! I love your art and all the colors are the perfect shades spread between patters, it truly does look beautiful! Great Job!!! Have a great 2013
- January 3, 2013 at 9:07 PM
- Unknown said...
Your color scheme is wonderful, it's very cheerful. The Mandela's are great!!
- January 3, 2013 at 9:45 PM
- Jennifer said...
THIS IS AMAZING!!! I just borrowed a zentangle doodle book from the library and this just sparked me into gear....love love love!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing this amazing work of art!!!
- January 4, 2013 at 9:05 AM
- Eden said...
@Emma- thanks so much for your encouragement and kind words!! I'm smiling here :D
@Rae- I appreciate you taking the time to comment! Welcome :D
@Jennifer- you will love doodling and zentangling! Appreciate your kind words :D
- January 4, 2013 at 5:28 PM
- Alice said...
this is pretty amazing! i saw it in genevieve's round-up and will definitely be giving this a try!
- January 4, 2013 at 10:12 PM
- Margaret Bremner, Artist said...
This is quite stunning, love the colors! And it's done by hand; I like that. Great work... I mean play! :)
- January 4, 2013 at 11:52 PM
- Eden said...
@Alice- thanks for your kind comments and I hope you stop back by :D
@Margaret- Thank You too for your kind words....And Yes I love to work by hand :D
- January 5, 2013 at 10:34 AM
- Teresa Butaritari said...
this blows my mind! it's exactly the type of work i do. or i shouldn't say work, it's just what i like to do to relax. this is the most beautiful piece. i absolutely love it! thanks so much for the post. I will refer to this for ideas.
- January 5, 2013 at 8:22 PM
- Eden said...
@Taz- thanks for your kind comments, please come back :D
- January 6, 2013 at 10:15 AM
- LesleeP said...
I never can write get the colors right and now I have a great example. Thanks so much.
- January 13, 2013 at 11:34 AM
- Eden said...
@Leslee- thanks! I like shades of the same and opposing colors on the color wheel.
- January 13, 2013 at 8:11 PM
- stefanie stark said...
Oh wow, these mandalas look beautiful and I am so impressed! A wonderful inspiration! Many many thanks! Stefanie
- January 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM
- Eden said...
Thanks Stefanie :D
- January 17, 2013 at 6:51 PM
- Margaret Ann said...
- January 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
- Margaret Ann said...
- January 24, 2013 at 2:06 PM
- Eden said...
Thanks Margaret Ann :D
- January 26, 2013 at 11:11 AM
I just found your blog by accident and Wow!! I am sooo impressed :O) it has inspired me to do some more Zentangles and use colour. Quick question - what kind of paper do you use?
- March 14, 2013 at 4:09 AM
- Eden said...
Thanks Jacqueline for stopping by and commenting. To answer your question about paper....I always do my marker work on moleskine watercolor paper. It's the thickest paper moleskine sells and it doesn't bleed thru. Good luck and enjoy :)
- March 14, 2013 at 9:18 PM
I love them!!!! So beautiful. Design wise and color choices. Very inspirational. Thank you for sharing . I really admire your work!!
- August 24, 2013 at 2:48 PM
This is absolutely gorgeous!!! I am drooling with envy over this... I wish I could have your talent!! Amazing job!!!
- September 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM
- GeorgiaGina said...
Wow, Wow, Wow....absolutely gorgeous!!!!!
- February 14, 2014 at 1:12 PM
Splendid! I am speakless!!!!
- May 21, 2014 at 7:32 AM
This is fantabulous!!!!
- August 23, 2014 at 4:07 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks ...that brought me to a happy place....so inspiring. The
- November 14, 2014 at 9:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi Im Ashley and I love your blogs!! Yes they are old but I am getting great ideas from them. I'm not that good as an attest as you but I love zentagnle drawing. Though I am having trinkets with what to draw on. I've done a lot of work on computer paper but I just feel like they will mess up too easily. So I just started doing all my Zen drawing in one scetch book. I am having a problem with when I out line my drawings in sharpie it bleeds through a lot. Is there any special type of paper of scetch book I should use. I would love to hear from you if you could email me at email@example.com
- December 8, 2014 at 12:00 AM
- Siggadisart said...
Beautiful and colorful, makes me want to start painting :)
- May 17, 2015 at 2:42 PM
- Eden said...
Thanks so much for all your kind comments :)
- May 23, 2015 at 2:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Felicitaciones es hermosísimo, construir y pintar mandalas hacen parte de mi rutina y son una experiencia vivencial...
- October 11, 2015 at 7:15 PM
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- Eden
- By day...I work in the Healthcare field, where every .. i.. has to be dotted and every ..t.. has to be crossed. This blog is the place where I can let myself go and have some fun. I am on a journey. A journey I started a long time ago, but it has been a bit sidetracked with Navy Wife relocations and raising kids. I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and I have got some time for me. No, I will not be one of those moms walking around the house with Empty Nest Syndrome, I have got way too much to do, to learn, to create. Sure, once the kids are gone I will miss them....but hey, there is always the phone, the email, the texting and the Plane tickets! I love my life and my family and It is fun moving into this new stage. I am into Digital Scrapbooking, photography, journaling, Art Journaling and Drawing. I am a do-it-yourselfer and I am trying to teach myself to draw. I am finding that it takes a lot of patience, lots of practice and a good eraser! And if you're really curious there's a 3 part Interview by Eileen: HERE All the best, Eden


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Everybody does not have a big house but we all try to mark a room as the guest room. Big or small, making it cozy and comfortable is in your hands. Your overnight guests do not expect 5-Star treatment but you sure want to be a good host on your end. So, the least you can do is to make them feel cozy and comfortable and provide them with the basic things they need.
The first and most important feature is the size of your room. Even if you do not have a big room, try to adjust the size of the bed or sofa cum bed so as to make the room look bigger. Mind the drapes; make sure they open and close smoothly and do not hang down shabbily. You need not have an ultra-chic guest bedroom as the rest of your house. Make the décor more mainstream, so that guests from different lifestyles may find it comfortable.Another very important item is the bedside table which serves as the main station for a visitor's stuff like watch, glasses, etc. A side table with shelves would be a better idea. You can place some books and magazines for your guests to browse through. If possible, you can also fix a TV set for the comfort of your guests. Make the room more homely and cozy by putting a lot of pillows and throwaway cushions. So having done this and looking around your handiwork, what else is needed? A simple chair can also do wonders to the décor of your room.
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It's become a popular trend for voters to show little enthusiasm for Congress, as continued budget talks repeatedly end in gridlock and political games go in circles.
However, an ABC News/Washington Post poll released today finds Congress, a long with the other two branches of government, holds higher approval among the Latino population, compared to the rest of the United States population.
The poll shows 56 percent of Hispanics approve of Congress, which drops to 30 percent among the general population. This is a dramatic increase from November 2011, when only 35 percent of Latinos held a favorable view of Congress and 51 percent were unfavorable. The Supreme Court is also highly favored among Latinos at 61 percent.
The results come at a time when social issues are the among the hot button issues in Washington. This week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding same-sex marriage and Congress continues to hammer out legislation on comprehensive immigration reform.
One expert says he finds Latinos hold more support for government institutions, which can be attributed to less familiarity and more trust in the government, compared to the trend among other demographics to be disgruntled with the government.
Matt Barreto, co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions and political science professor at University of Washington, said the work on immigration reform can attribute to higher approval among Latinos.
And if Congress includes a path to citizenship in its final bill, which has remained highly contested, lawmakers could continue to be popular among Latinos.
"I think there's an opportunity for both parties to see approval ratings go up even further," Barreto said.
The poll showed Latinos gave President Obama an approval rating of 83 percent, while the overall population's approval of the president is 57 percent. President Obama has retained popularity among Hispanics and other minorities, who largely showed up to the polls in November 2012 to reelect Obama.


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Cotillon Party
Author: No authors specified.
Date: December 30, 1858
This invitation was for a party to be held at William Chestnut's house in Osawatomie, Kansas Territory on December 30, 1858
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: K 394 So1 Vol. 1
Item Number: 102580 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Balls (parties); Chestnut, William; Community life; Daily life; Dance parties; Lykins County, Kansas Territory (see also Miami County, Kansas); Miami County, Kansas (see also Lykins County, Kansas Territory); Parties
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Adult nightclub planned on Rt. 365 near Verona
ROME >> Kyle Endemann wants to open a new adult nightclub at the corner of state Route 365 and Greenway-New London Road near Verona.
The Oneida city resident has a pending purchase offer on the now-vacant property, according to his zoning application. The new bar and restaurant he wants to build would be approximately 4,500 square feet with a parking lot for up to 62 vehicles.
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Steven Miller: How did you come to work with Nature with your background in molecular neuroscience?
Noah Gray: I did a post-doc after my graduate work with Karel Svoboda for three years and I got to the point where I wasn't quite done with the bench. But, I felt like I needed a break to recharge the batteries and try something else before I went on the job market because I thought I wanted to stay in academia. There was a job opening at Nature Neuroscience that I happened to come across while reading Nature and I thought it was a great fit for what I was looking for. It was like a mini-sabbatical to get away from the bench but not out of science–keeping that foot in the door. I figured I had about a year before academia would reject me. The plan was about nine months in, I would start looking for a second post-doc. But, I enjoyed the job a lot, I enjoyed Nature Neuroscience. The job at Nature opened up while I was in this point where I had to make the decision of closing the academic door. I got that job and now I have been at Nature for over five years. It was almost by accident but I like it.
SM: You think it has been too long for you to go back to the bench if you wanted?
NG: That is just my impression. As everybody knows it is really challenging to get a tenure-track position these days. So, if a decision is between me who is two-years away from the bench who had publications a couple of years earlier and another scientist who has similar publications but is at the bench now… I feel like I just had a very short window of leave to be able to come back and be forgiven. If I wanted to go back and do bench work now, I could go back as a technician, I could go back as a staff scientist or something. But, getting my own lab would most likely be a failed endeavor. I probably wouldn't find someone to hire me. That's what I mean by that short window.
SM: I had a really interesting conversation with Allan Jones of the Allen Institute for Brain Science and he said how he does not like the position of post-doc. He thought that it shouldn't exist and that our scientists should be able to come out of a PhD program being able to run a lab. Dr. Jones also said that the position was started over 30 years ago when there was a similar job market to now–very limited assistant professor positions available.
NG: I agree. I am a big fan of maybe trying to do create something like that again, some kind of new position. I don't know the European models or Chinese models that well but I feel like there are other options other than a lab head in other countries. In the U.S. there are unique individuals who carve out a unique position within their institute, whether they call them research scientists, staff scientists, or super post-docs, you name it. Some people don't want to have their own lab, they don't want to worry about grants, they just want to do bench science and I think that is a valuable resource for any number of us. People would kill for that. But the problem is that those positions aren't supported by the university because those positions by definition should be a staff position at the university. When they're linked to the lab it could be a little dangerous for the person because if the lab leaves or it loses its funding then that person is out of a job. Whereas if it were a staff position, you could find another lab that could support your salary and find work. I feel like we are at a position where with the number of scientists we're training that we need another evolution. We need another position at the university-level to do this kind of thing for the people who just want to do good science and let the people who want to write the grants, write the grants.
SM: I had an interesting conversation with the BrainFacts.org team regarding what the friction might there be for attracting viewership to science websites. Do you think the friction for types of jobs you mentioned and their lack of support from the academy might be due to an attitude problem?
NG: I don't know. I guess like with anything… we have our debates about open access, now new debates about data deposition, the culture needs to change. It's a chicken and egg problem. The funding agencies need to say we are going to offer funding modules for these positions and universities can apply for the funding. Or the universities can take the position to say we are going to start hiring these individuals and our scientists will start building new modules for these positions into their grants. I don't know who needs to do that first but somebody needs to make a move in order to make something like this to happen as long as there is a market for it. I'm speculating that there is a market for some alternative within academia that isn't PI. There's enough people out there that like being in academia but their only option is to be a PI and they just don't want to be a PI. And, there's nothing wrong with that but there's no other option.
SM: If NIH provided the opportunity to apply for this kind of funding, people might adapt to this idea as they would be able to lead the way as one of the primary sources of grant money.
NG: You could make an argument too that this could all link together with discussions about how science is assessed. Right now there is a big debate on whether post-publication peer-review is the future. There's an argument that it is not really being taken up by scientists so that must mean they don't want to do it or don't find it of value and that's not the case. Right now there is no value in doing the common post-publication review because you don't get any credit for it. Hiring committees and tenure committees should spend the time to review and give credit for these contributions to science. Faculty do their teaching, they do their service to their university, they bring money in with grants and they have their publications. It would be great to have a fifth thing in there that is determining what contributions you have brought to your field in general. Usually that is assessed by how many talks were you invited to give, how many papers you published. There's no reason why your contributions to the post-publication peer review process couldn't be a part of that whole oeuvre of work as a scientist in order for the universities to determine whether you merit tenure, or hiring or whatever. You could imagine those positions of staff scientist or bench scientist where they don't have to write grants could instead make a valuable contribution to the post-publication review process. It's not that they don't have good ideas; they just don't want to write grants. They wanted a more relaxed scientific career. Being a PI is very stressful. Writing grants is very stressful–especially right now–and these people did not want that but they wanted to stay at the bench. There's nothing wrong with that. I think these things could help other areas that there's a debate in. If there were positions in academia that would allow for post-publication peer review to grow, maybe these staff scientist positions could offer that opportunity.
SM: Maybe Nature should offer an award for people who do that frequently.
NG: Ha ha ha. That's above my pay grade but I can make that suggestion.
SM: Speaking of funding, there's been some talk on NIH going anonymous in their grant review process. Do you think that should be done–especially with the challenge in terms of how many grants are available now?
NG: I think it should be done only because I've heard enough anecdotal stories on both sides of this coin. One of the most common stories being, 'Well… I don't know who this guy is so I don't know if he knows how to do this kind of assay, so I'm a little skeptical.' That's fair enough but you have to allow someone to produce a track record and produce preliminary data as well. If the preliminary data doesn't look that good then you're rightfully–and should be–concerned about whether or not the person is capable of pulling off this project. But, you cannot make decisions based on who the person is simply because you don't know them.
On the flip side I've heard anecdotal stories that there are labs that at times, in certain study sections, where they say, 'Well that guy is at Howard Hughes, he doesn't need any more money, so let's give the money to someone else.' As you can imagine in this scenario, that converges into a middling type distribution of grant money where perhaps some of those Howard Hughes investigators–well-funded people–have other great ideas and there's arguments to be made that they should get more money to pursue those ideas. This should be done instead of giving this to a lab that doesn't have a lot of funding, but they just have an okay idea. There could be an argument that you could make the meritocracy work a little better if you don't know who anyone is. I'd be a proponent of the NIH doing this, my caveat is that I've never sat on a study section, I don't know what it's like. But, I feel that this change could have significant value.
SM: I loved your blog post on Donald Trump and his interview where he spoke on autism and vaccines.
NG: Oh, thank you.
SM: His interview was very… interesting.
NG: Yeah. Those kinds of things are what irritate me most. I used to blog a lot more earlier on in my editor career. I've kind of fallen off of it. Probably because I do twitter too much…
SM: Ha ha ha, I love your twitter account, by the way. It is fantastic.
NG: Thank you, thank you. I've got to say that there are certain things that really kind of razzle me. One of them are these kinds of miscommunications of science to the public, especially when you have somebody where, even if people dislike him, he is still known by a lot of people. It doesn't matter what your feelings are. He's getting to a lot of people's ears. You have networks like Fox and those who are willing to put him on air to say these things–and people can say these things–but it's nice to have a counter. So, I felt obligated to have a counter and say, well at least consider the science. You have to consider not only the initial report–and people aren't even aware unfortunately that it has been retracted–but that there is a controversy on this topic, even before it was retracted. And, so I think people need to be aware of where these things sit in the community and that's why I felt I had to write that because it gets me upset. It's so simple to provide links to PubMed articles, people wouldn't even have to read the full paper, they could read the abstracts, which are right there and available. And most of the information in those abstracts would negate almost everything Donald Trump said in these interviews.
SM: I completely agree with you. It was highly irresponsible of him. Especially, as you said, with so many parents and people affected by this disorder and that becomes emotional. And, to do that to those people, I was pretty upset as well.
NG: Yeah, and that's a really good point. You can't always blame the people because it is really emotional. They're struggling with dealing with this disorder and especially if they don't have a significant science background.
SM: If you hear something that sound reasonable, like the fact that we're all vaccinated and there are also so many people with autism, it might sound reasonable–as you said–to someone without a science background.
NG: Right. Exactly. The thing is, I have to say is, if we didn't have the science behind it to suggest that there aren't any problems with the vaccination schedule that we have it does sound kind of scary that you do x number of shots. And, for a non-scientist to say, 'Woah, why are we sticking 30 shots into my kid within the first six months of life?'...
SM: What'd Donald Trump call it? A 'monster shot'?
NG: Ha ha ha, oh yeah! With all the shots in one. But again, science has reported that these mercury-based preservatives in vaccines are a problem. But, we got rid of those. And when we find problems with additives and such, there are a procedures in place for science to correct that. Again, that's based on science.
SM: And, it is reasonable that mercury-based preservatives would have negative side-effects because mercury is very, very toxic.
NG: Exactly. So that's the issue. Without these counterpoints out there, if Fox had run a simple ad saying, 'For more information on autism and vaccines, click here,' the public isn't going to know that there are people who disagree with this opinion. The problem is that a lot of sites that are notoriously known for pushing this connection between vaccines and autism are one-sided in the science they list. Journalists are in a good place because they have an objective view to say, 'Here are all of those sites with this opinion on autism and vaccines but you should also take into account all of these sites,' and let people get informed. And if they still aren't informed after you give them everything then there's not much more you can do. But, if you don't give them the opportunity to inform themselves then you can expect them to believe whatever Donald Trump says because you are hitting an emotional button. You're looking for something, you're angry, you're upset because you want the best for your child. So it's like, 'Ah!', let me point the finger at vaccines. So, I understand it, but we need to stay better informed.
SM: Maybe Fox should hire you as their scientific consultant.
NG: Alright, this is actually my interview for them.
SM: Ha ha ha. Well, I actually work for Fox.
NG: Ha ha ha. Where are the hidden cameras?
SM: Ha ha. Another reason I really enjoyed that article is that it is an obvious reflection that you have your finger on the pulse of science news and a broad understanding of science skepticism. It's a healthy thing to have skepticism of science news. I think this is an issue for people new in their training. It is kind of a white elephant in the room, there's so much literature out there, how are they going to become so informed? What would you recommend to people that are new in their training as far as habits for staying informed and more up-to-date on their field, et cetera?
NG: There are lots of options right now. And, more so than when I started out in grad school. You pretty much had 'e-talks'. Everybody got emails of the table of contents of journals that they liked. They went after that, they'd read through and find the papers that you thought were kind of important, you read those. Now we're in an era where PLOS ONE is extraordinary and publishing 30,000 articles a year, I don't know if that number is exactly correct but they're in that ballpark. And just getting an e-talk of PLOS ONE fills up your inbox. I feel like you should still do the old-style way of selecting those few journals that are relevant to your particular specialty, maybe pick out some more general journals like Nature, like PNAS, or PLOS Biology that also cover a variety of topics and see what they're publishing. But after that, I'd recommend things like Altmetric, PubPeer, and crowd-sourcing options that'll bring your attention to not only science to your particular field but as a trainee I think it is always valuable to mature your scientific thinking and it doesn't necessarily have to be about your field. I think you can read a lot by reading through a debate–even if it is not in your field–between smart people on how to interpret data because that is something as a trainee, you always need that. Even a PI, you never stop evolving the way you think about science.
SM: Just like journal club: a broad exposure to science outside your small field.
NG: Exactly. So now we have online-journal clubs basically. We have journals like PubPeer, which brings things to the forefront and all of these other options that I mentioned. I think F1000 has options like this. Let's just see what other people, who are savvy about science are thinking about and I think you'll learn from it, even if it is not in your field. Find a couple of those websites and hybrid with the old school e-talks. I've moved on to–and I guess this is still old school–RSS feeds. I don't get the emails anymore. I go to my RSS readers and that's how I get my tables of contents.
SM: Speaking of new students and training, do you think someone early in their career should aim for higher impact journals or publishing sooner so they can get funding and get their name out there?
NG: So, that's a challenge. That's a difficult question. I feel that the sooner a trainee can get some experience with writing a paper and dealing with the review process, the better. If you have a paper where you're not sure if two years from now it's going to evolve into something really great, try to get it out. But, this is also specific to the PI or the mentor. The mentor might have different plans for the publication schedule than the trainee. But, if the trainee has some strong inkling or some strong input into the publication schedule, I would probably push for sooner. You know, there's nothing like being part of this engagement with your peers. I can't tell you how much I learned from actually chatting with reviewers, reading the reviews and responding to them. I think that's an invaluable experience to start engaging with your peers, meaning your reviewers. Getting feedback on your work because there's nothing like sitting in the lab for four years and not getting any feedback. It's nice to know that what you're doing matters to somebody else and it's kind of exciting to get out there. I feel–and this may only be my opinion, I may be absolutely wrong–that publication record has less of an impact on how you get a post-doc. We know it's well-documented that it's critical for getting a faculty position at this time, if that is the route you're choosing. But, it seems that people are making their decisions on post-docs on fit between personalities, fit between interests, fit between the academic goals, and you know, you can't tell from somebody's publication record how good they're going to be with their hands in the lab. So, I feel that post-doc decisions are made much more smartly, more soundly than tenure because you can't predict anything from the publication record. You don't know if that person was first-author but, you know, did they really do all of those experiments? Was there a technician that was just acknowledged and not even put on the paper who really was the work horse or the hands? It's invariable that as a post-doc that you can't move on until you get some stuff done in the lab. So if you go on to this new lab and you're not bringing your technician with you, you have to use your fumbley hands again, you know? And, since you can't predict that, you have to go with these other things I mentioned, right? I feel like, of course the mentor will look at the publication record; of course they do. But, I feel that it is not as important on the final decision on who is going to get interviewed or who they're going to consider for the post-doc. With that in mind, publishing sooner gives you so much more to be evaluated on that I would go for that.
SM: Do you think that models like F1000 has where you can publish your poster online is something students should use?
NG: As long as everybody who is a part of the project is on board for getting the data out there in a public format I think that would be great. There's F1000, there's the new bioRxiv that Cold Spring Harbor Lab Press just put out. You've heard of arXiv, the physics e-print server, well this is a play off of that to support biological sciences and allow a place for biologists to post things online as well. You can post full papers, not just posters. They're quickly assessed by a panel of scientists to make sure that what's posted is science. And, then it is available for people to engage with, comment on, and discuss. These–I believe–are going to be citeable; they're going to get document identifiers. So again, for things like this, as long as everyone is on board with it then I think it's a good thing.
We should also understand a bit of the history of these things. The history of biology-based pre-print servers is not a good one. There have been a number of them including a product produced by Nature that was operational for five years from 2007 to 2012 called Nature Precedings. Ultimately the engagement flat-lined quite early in the project and never really came back and then stopped accepting submissions. The take-up by biologists hasn't been good but that's not a reason to stop. I still think Cold Spring Harbor is making the right move by having this bioRxiv. F1000 is making the right move because you cannot just throw something out just because it doesn't get picked up because we're in a new technological age. You could argue that well, maybe that was too soon. Just like certain things with paper commenting and different forms of peer review that was tried in 2006 things by Nature and some others that were deemed a failure, that people didn't care to do them. But, maybe people weren't ready. The culture is changing to where we engage online, discuss things online and now these conversations take place regularly online. It's now a natural thing to discuss science online whereas maybe in 2006 it wasn't. So, when someone back then tries it out and goes, 'Woah, this is odd' and they don't pick it up. Now, it's an obvious thing because you're so used to clicking 'like' and things that now it's part of your work too. And, why not? I would encourage it.
SM: Do you think the friction or resistance of the academy to models like that might be the fear of scooping?
NG: Yes, absolutely. For most people that don't want to put it out there, that would be the number one reason. If not, the only reason. Most of these archives are really good about updating and informing people when the papers get published. They try to track them or encourage the authors to write back when the papers do get published after the pre-print so that they can immediately link to the final paper. So as long as those kinds of links stay fresh and you have a paper trail then I don't see that as a problem. The fear of scooping is field-dependent. If you're working on an awake-behaving monkey for two years it is going to be hard to catch up and scoop that study. But, a lot of molecular techniques like PCR or even data analysis–with the newest push for putting source data online–might be far easier to scoop. There are a lot of fields where computational analysis of data sets will get you a paper. If you have somebody else's data set out there that you can use because they put it on a pre-print server you might be kind of selling off one of your papers. And, you don't know if you would've come up with the idea without that data but that's part of the argument as to why we should put data on pre-print servers. Let the crowd figure out and put the best science out. But, until it's mandated I think people are going to be pretty reluctant and hold on to what they perceive to be their intellectual property.
SM: Right and you made a great point of how fast can someone reproduce your data is proportional to how fearful you are of scooping.
NG: Scientists are extremely paranoid individuals. And again, this is the culture that we've created. I completely understand it and it's definitely not a knock on the field because if you need to have a Nature paper in order for a hiring committee to even consider you, then you should be paranoid. That's why I'm glad to see all of these pushes because the more we can change a culture that goes beyond, 'You're only defined by your x, y, and z publications,' the better for science in general. To help de-stress people and to allow for more sharing. To allow for people to place data out there and say hey, 'Well if someone gets a paper off of this, then great but it is not going to ruin my career.'
SM: I actually heard some offline comments this year at the meeting where people were discussing people potentially doping in science just to stay awake long enough to get more experiments out. And, to be able to get those kinds of publications that would get you hired into the old-school tenure track.
NG: That's actually an interesting point. Nature actually covered that from the perspective of undergraduates in college and not necessarily people in the lab. That's actually quite interesting.
SM: If you think about it, they're the ones spending a lot more time in lab that at some point is poor for their health.
NG: Again, that's interesting and I wouldn't be shocked.
SM: Me either which is sad.
NG: I haven't heard it myself but it is definitely sad. And again, it all relates back to the cul-… the intense pressure that we've created.
SM: Did you almost say 'cult'?
NG: Culture, ha ha. But I guess, same thing–the intense pressure that we're putting on people for the crunch for positions and the crunch for funding which is one of the key things.
SM: You're obviously a highly skilled and experienced writer. I'm curious what you think of your writing now compared to when you started grad school? How has it changed?
NG: I think that the more I have read excellent science writers like Carl Zimmer, Ed Yong, Virginia Hughes, people like that and Helen Pearson is another one that I learned a ton from. She is the Chief Nature News features editor. She used to sit by me in the office and we would discuss certain topics that we were considering for features. Maybe she wanted my feedback, maybe I'd pitch a topic to hear and see if she wanted to find a freelancer to take it deeper. I learned a lot from her on how to put together a narrative to keep people's eyeballs. When my writing started with science, there's a certain type of technical writing that everybody does and I think that my style when I actually do write something–which I don't do much anymore–reflects what I've learned from these writers about the narrative. There's always a precipice where you have to maintain that balance between not letting the narrative take too much of the forefront but letting the science and the narrative walk hand-in-hand together to engage the audience as opposed to only the technical side or only the narrative. The danger of the technical side is that you lose your audience right? Everybody stops reading. You know nowadays people are click-happy and with one scroll, they're gone. But also, if you let the narrative get too far in front, then that's when we see things that are criticized for being put out in mass media where the science is not quite there. And you had let the narrative run away it. You have to be careful to make sure you are constantly keeping both hand-in-hand. I think that's how my writing has evolved by seeing what these other writers have done and try to emulate that style and make it fit with my values of making sure the science is always upfront as well and they do.
SM: You're speaking in terms of writing a non-technical article; not a primary article.
NG: Right, science writing–popular science articles. But for manuscript-writing there's a similar process. For manuscript-writing, there's not less of a narrative but it's a different narrative. What you might talk about in a story for the popular audience might be based on some kind of human angle, something non-scientists can relate to. The narrative in a manuscript is trying to captivate your scientific audience and usually you captivate them by having a nice, clean, well-told story. That's not necessarily how the science always goes, right? It's messy. I think from the time from when I was a grad student, I had two good mentors both in grad school and from when I was a post-doc who were great writers. They took care to make sure that the message smoothly flowed and that you didn't try to over-hype your results too much. You let the audience decide on what to think. You make suggestions to lead people down through their thinking process but I think it's always important to let the audience make up their mind. That's something we do at Nature. We know what our readership is, how large it is and we're a big spotlight. So, if a paper doesn't have anything to do with autism and the author has, '… and this might be interesting for autism,' then we'll remove that because it is important to make sure that the facts drive the way. And in a discussion of a manuscript, everybody knows that you can get a little looser. I think I had great training on keeping it to the facts and letting those suggestions find a way to the discussion and lead from there.
SM: Where do you see yourself in ten years with Nature?
NG: Wow. I have no idea. I enjoy my position in the community right now in which I am engaging with a lot of smart people; I am discussing great science. I'm at a great interface between scientists and great science communicators, like journalists and other media-savvy people. Whatever I'm doing, whether it is at Nature, whether it's somewhere else, I want to have that type of interface. I like all of these communities. I have a great engagement and interaction with scientists and I like being able to be a bridge to bring the groups together. I really hope whatever I'm doing in ten years, I still have that interface between popular science communication and the hardcore science. I really don't feel like I want to drift toward one or the other too much. I want to stay at the interface and interact with both. That's the best I could do on that one.
SM: That's a great answer and it's always interesting to hear people's answers to that question.
NG: Ten years is a long time. It's been a little over ten years since PLOS was founded and there have been massive changes with the way that the internet has driven science communication and scientific debate. I can't even imagine what another ten years will bring. You could argue just since PLOS ONE, there have been exponential changes and even the fact that everyone knows now what paper commenting is. You don't have to explain to them what post-publication peer review is. We're at a place where things are rapidly going up and who knows what the next ten years is going to give us. It's exciting.
Indeed, our field of neuroscience and more generally, the field of science is quite exciting! Some of the news I covered at this year's Society for Neuroscience, along with my interviews of the people was an amazing part of the meeting that I was able to experience. I'm always happy to meet like-minded people that are passionate about science communication and making sure the public is informed about what scientists are doing and what it is that we do. Noah Gray's ability to communicate to the public reminds me of what my mentor from my first lab would say concerning your education, which is that if you have such a specialized and advanced education, it is your duty to educate. Not only because for most of us, the public subsidized a large portion of our education but because information like Noah provided on his blog post about the facts of autism and vaccines can literally save lives. Thanks again to Noah Gray for what I found–and hope you all find–to be a fascinating conversation that I had at this year's meeting.


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"Friday and Saturday were just fantastic," said Brother Rosenberg, owner of Brother's General Store on Broadway which did not open Sunday.
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Across the street at Your Pie, a pizza restaurant, records were falling.
"Friday was the best day we have ever had," said Leroy Coronado, the store's manager. "That was until Saturday when we did even better. Sunday was not far behind Friday."
For the weekend Coronado estimated that about 2,500 customers were served at the restaurant that opened in March.
"What really makes it amazing is that probably half of the college students who live downtown are on break and not even here," Coronado said.
At Philly-osophy, a sandwich shop on Broadway, owner Skylar Toole also saw a record day.
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It was not just eating establishments that prospered.
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"Any kind of exposure for downtown is welcome," Wire said. "There are more restaurants now. All of the different activities going on down here now are letting people discover what downtown has to offer."
Ansley agreed.
"What I see now is a lot more people walking with strollers and dogs," Ansley said. "There is a family atmosphere."
He said downtown has become a nice place to wander, like being on a vacation.
Though nobody expects a repeat of the kind of crowds brought by the whitewater grand opening, they are hoping it will continue to bring people here from around Columbus and elsewhere.
But it is not just the whitewater rafting attracting visitors, they said. It is free Friday night concerts and Market Days on Broadway each Saturday.
Toole said what is happening downtown, especially whitewater, is getting a lot of "positive feedback."
"People are enjoying it and telling other people about it," Toole said.
Coronado said he has lived in Columbus a long time and never seen the downtown area so alive.
"It is at its peak. City leaders are doing a good job of making things happen," he said. "We are very grateful to the community for the business that we have gotten."


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The Marshall Islands is now home to the world's largest shark sanctuary, an area of the central Pacific Ocean four times the size of California, The Pew Environment Group confirmed in a news announcement today. (Read the full announcement.)
The Washington-based conservation arm of The Pew Charitable Trusts, a nonprofit that works globally to establish pragmatic, science-based policies that protect the oceans, said the Nitijela, the Parliament of the Marshalls, passed legislation unanimously last week that ends commercial fishing of sharks in all 1,990,530 square kilometers (768,547 square miles) of the central Pacific country's waters, an ocean area four times the landmass of California.
"We salute the Republic of the Marshall Islands for enacting the strongest legislation to protect sharks that we have seen," said Matt Rand, director of global shark conservation for the Pew Environment Group, which is spearheading efforts to establish shark sanctuaries, where targeted fishing for these species is prohibited. "As leaders recognize the importance of healthy shark populations to our oceans, the momentum for protecting these animals continues to spread across the globe."
The tropical atolls, reefs, and islets of The Marshall Islands include Enewetak, where the United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. Bikini Atoll is still uninhabitable because of past nuclear tests.
According to The Pew Environment's statement, the key provisions of the Marshall Islands' new law include:
- A complete prohibition on the commercial fishing of sharks as well as the sale of any sharks or shark products. Its zero retention stipulation requires that any shark caught accidently by fishing vessels must be set free.
- Large monetary fines, anywhere between U.S.$25,000 to U.S.$200,000, for anyone who is found to be fishing sharks or in possession of shark fins. In addition, violators would be fined the market value of the product in their possession.
- A ban on the use of wire leaders, a longline fishing gear which is among the most lethal to sharks.
- A monitoring and enforcement provision which requires all fishing vessels to land their catch at one of the country's ports and bans at sea transfers.
The Pew Environment added: "Last week's action was initiated in March of this year when the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority issued a moratorium on the shark trade. It was furthered in June, when President Jurelang Zedkaia joined other central Pacific leaders in setting the stage for the creation of a Micronesia Regional Shark Sanctuary, the first regional shark conservation agreement of its kind. In July, the Marshall Islands Mayors Association moved to make this vision a reality by passing a resolution that called on the 24 inhabited atolls throughout the Marshalls, each with its own local government, to enact ordinances prohibiting the sale and trade of sharks or shark fins."
"Ours may be a small island nation, but our waters are now the biggest place sharks are protected."
"In passing this bill, there is no greater statement we can make about the importance of sharks to our culture, environment and economy," said Senator Tony deBrum, a representative from Kwajalein Atoll who is a bill cosponsor. "I thank President Jurelang Zedkaia for his vision and support for this effort. Ours may be a small island nation, but our waters are now the biggest place sharks are protected. We hope other Micronesian leaders will join with us to make good on our collective promise of a regional sanctuary."
"The Marshall Islands have joined Palau, the Maldives, Honduras, the Bahamas and Tokelau in delivering the gold standard of protection for ensuring shark survival," Rand said in The Pew Environment statement. "We look forward to helping other countries enlist in this cause."
Related Blog Post: Reef Sharks Generate Millions of Tourist Dollars for Palau
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The U.S. stock market was closed on Election Day through the 1980 election. How it has performed on Election Day in the years since:
— Nov. 6, 1984: Hours before Ronald Reagan beats Walter Mondale in a landslide for re-election, and with the economy healing after a deep recession, the Dow climbs 14 points to 1,244.
— Nov. 8, 1988: The market enjoys a strong morning in anticipation of a victory by George Bush over Michael Dukakis. It holds only a fraction of the gain, and the Dow ends up two points at 2,127.
— Nov. 3, 1992: An uneventful session one day after a rally based in part on speculation that a Bill Clinton presidency wouldn't hurt the markets. The Dow ends down nine points at 3,252.
— Nov. 5, 1996: In the middle of a historic bull market, investors embrace hope that Democrat Clinton and a Republican Congress will keep each other in check. The Dow rises 39 to 6,081, within 13 points of its all-time high.
— Nov. 7, 2000: George W. Bush and Al Gore go to the wire, and investors hold their bets. The Dow closes down 25 points at 10,952. The Dow slides as much as 5 percent during the five-week fight over the Florida vote.
— Nov. 2, 2004: After a five-day winning streak, the market confronts the prospect that the race between George W. Bush and John Kerry won't be settled on Election Night. Late selling pushes the Dow down 18 points to 10,035.
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On the 18th April 1992 Buddhist Lama Yeshe Rinpoche bought a whole island off the coast from the Island of Arran which in turn is off the coast of Scotland. It is called Holy Isle and must not be visited, indeed given the widest possible birth, if you can't cope with peace, beauty, tranquility and serenity.
The island came into Buddhist hands via a devout catholic no less, Mrs Kay Morris, who owned Holy Isle and had been 'instructed by Mother Mary in a dream' to pass Holy Isle to Lama Yeshe to be used for peace and meditation. See – http://www.holyisland.org/
We went there this year as the second part of the annual 'lads walk'. We'd spent the first part, a couple of days, walking the wilds of Arran getting sunburned and heat stroke as we'd managed to marry our trip with the hottest weather Scotland has had since Dodo's were a menace to outdoor chip eaters.
Arrival on Arran
There was only four of us this year and one of us, a freelance writer, was writing an article on our visit for Kindred Spirit magazine. It was the third day of our trip that we caught the small ferry over to this car free paradise. The plus with Holy Isle is that nobody is playing at being Buddhist. There was some disappointment by one of our group as he'd genuinely expected that our boat, on landing, would be met by a line of purple cloaked, bald blokes ringing bells and welcoming us on to their island. I wondered if he also thought they would be saying Aloha and passing garlands of thistles around our necks.
The resident Buddhists are simply average people of all ages who are trying to follow a peaceful existence via the teachings of Buddha. This, in other words, is not a pretentious new age centre.
The main building
The island consists of a main building which houses the dormitories, library, kitchen and dining room. There is no TV room, no amusement arcade or gym because like the world over they're not really necessary. Behind this there is another building where the courses are held and at the far end of the island, about half a mile away, was a not for visitors retreat centre where twelve women are currently on a three year, three month, three day retreat. They were 18 months in to it at the time of our visit in May 2012. The disappointed friend drew looks, accompanied by frowning eyebrows, when he inquired if this was voluntary on their part, obviously having decided to himself that we were on some sort of unwelcoming Zen Alcatraz.
In the hillside above the retreat centre there was a couple of eco-lodges for people on a lifetime retreat and once the resident has passed on the lodge also gets passed on to the next person on the waiting list.
The retreat building
The lifetime retreat lodges and the home of Lama Yeshe when he visits.
There is a also a wonderful cafe/shop on the grass beach which caters for visitors and helps fund the island and sells lots of mediation bowls which everyone seemed to try out and I imagine were there as some special meditative training test for the shop assistant.
Above the cafe was a meditation room which I visited at several ungodly hours to spend time, cross legged, cutting off the blood flow to my feet. I didn't take my reading glasses into these meditations and was put on the spot when given a 2 inch thick set of cards to be able to recite the Chenrezig prayer, which was written in writing so small that I had no choice but to mumble along in a low Buddhisty sounding, throaty tone so as not to be exposed and glared at.
The Holy Isle passenger terminal looking towards Arran
Before meditation one morning as the sun was just up, around 5am as it happens, I decided to practice some yoga outdoors. There was a time when 5am was when I'd think of getting off home from a party and not heading for seclusion to do a yoga practice. I found a lovely spot by the sea edge looking across to Arran. I stripped down to my underpants because 1/ it was already hot and more importantly, 2/ I was alone – and so I began Surya Namaskara A (Sun Salutation A) and by the time I'd reached my first downward facing dog I realised I was not at all alone. I was joined by an ever expanding cloud of wee midges and these midges were not at all Buddhist and brought on what I can only describe as yoga turrets and a quick desertion of my practice as I ran back to the meditation hall with my new friends in hot, biting pursuit.
In the main building one could help oneself to free teas and coffees 24/7 and the food, three meals a day that are included in your £28 a night stay, was gorgeous vegan fayre. We all occasionally chipped in washing and wiping dishes and very quickly became part of the community and after only three days it was as if we'd never lived anywhere else.
On Holy Isle, you are not expected to go to meditation or to do anything particularly. You are simply free to be. It is relaxation personified and still quite a secret.
Peaced out. Last night on the island. Arran in the background
On returning to Arran the next day with it's one bus every two hours, seemed akin to being dropped into Manhattan on Christmas Eve. It took a while for the peace to dissolve back into distraction which suffice to say most of it eventually did – except for a small part that now sits there still – I guess, waiting for me.
There are currently plans to put a power plant on Arran which the Buddhist community fear will spoil the tranquility of Holy Isle causing noise, pollution and smoke.
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But this is a nice article going into the question of whether Darwinian theory offers good support for various conservative positions, "that Darwin's scientific theories about the evolution of species can be applied to today's patterns of human behavior, and that natural selection can provide support for many bedrock conservative ideas, like traditional social roles for men and women, free-market capitalism and governmental checks and balances."
The question whether to use Darwinism in political argument is, of course, different from the biological question whether the human animal resulted from evolution (which is what Brownback, Huckabee, and Tancredo look foolish rejecting).
"The current debate is not primarily about religious fundamentalism,"[John G.] West, the author of "Darwin's Conservatives: The Misguided Quest" (2006), said at Thursday's conference. "Nor is it simply an irrelevant rehashing of certain esoteric points of biology and philosophy. Darwinian reductionism has become culturally pervasive and inextricably intertwined with contemporary conflicts over traditional morality, personal responsibility, sex and family, and bioethics."So Darwinism only provides a form for political argument, not the actual answers. As the article notes, lefties and righties have found ways to say what they want to say in Darwinian style. It's interesting to think about who benefits most from the acceptance of arguments in this mode. It seems to work awfully well for justifying the subordination of women. Why should we want to promote modes of argument that work too well to support things you diapprove of? I haven't read Arnhart's book, but he seems to think he can whip out "moral sympathy" to get him out of whatever jam his Darwinism gets him into. But if we actually believe in this political Darwinism, won't it affect how sympathetic we are and what we are sympathetic about?
The technocrats, he charged, wanted to grab control from "ordinary citizens and their elected representatives" so that they alone could make decisions over "controversial issues such as sex education, partial-birth abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research and global warming."...
Mr. Arnhart, in his 2005 book, "Darwinian Conservatism," tackled the issue of conservatism's compatibility with evolutionary theory head on, saying Darwinists and conservatives share a similar view of human beings: they are imperfect; they have organized in male-dominated hierarchies; they have a natural instinct for accumulation and power; and their moral thought has evolved over time.
The institutions that successfully evolved to deal with this natural order were conservative ones, founded in sentiment, tradition and judgment, like limited government and a system of balances to curb unchecked power, he explains. Unlike leftists, who assume "a utopian vision of human nature" liberated from the constraints of biology, [political scientist Larry] Arnhart says, conservatives assume that evolved social traditions have more wisdom than rationally planned reforms.
While Darwinism does not resolve specific policy debates, Mr. Arnhart said in an interview on Thursday, it can provide overarching guidelines. Policies that are in tune with human nature, for example, like a male military or traditional social and sex roles, he said, are more likely to succeed. He added that "moral sympathy for the suffering of fellow human beings" allows for aid to the poor, weak and ill.


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