Here in the OSLab (oz' lab) we explore how scientific knowledge
is produced and shared. We're exhuming the beliefs, noodling
around in the biases, and OSblog is our invitation to you to
view some of what we find along the way. Please, drop us a line,
answer the question we will inevitably ask when we meet you on
the mean streets of science -- "So - what do you believe?"  Nov
21, 2013  Arm Around a Monster   is a nod to his genius.  
May 20, 2013   Mother Nature has a growing catalogue of images
of herself done up in style - weird, snarling, matronly, demure
- you name it. We think we'd now include this video.  (Thanks,
biologist Stanford Chen, for alerting us to this!)  There are so
many ways a Westerner can celebrate Nature. Maybe a solstice
festival. A sustainably-farmed-pig roast. A salty ship's-bow
reading of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. Or you could,
employing your famous-actress mad skills, your eyes wide like a
doe's, dress up like a hamster and birth, then munch on, your
babies. We are not s