crazyben

I just found out a paper I wrote just last year was accepted for publication in a journal called "Biological Theory!" It It is published out of MIT. It represents my 2d attempt to talk some sense into cultural anthropology...
I am super stoked!

Yesterday, at about 5pm, my Master's thesis defense was successfully concluded... I am now done here at USF! Awesome!!! I have some edits to make to my thesis, but that is the trivial part. Now it's time for some champagne, and more packing for the University of Utah, where I start my PhD work in August!
My day went great, I drank about 14 beers...
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I just got the paper reprints of my article from Springer on Saturday! If anyone wants a copy, please message me your mailing address, if you're in the US, and I will send one to you:
Hardisty BE and Cassill DL. 2010. Extending Eusociality to Include Vertebrate Family Units. Biology & Philosophy 25(3):437-440.

Hardisty BE and Cassill DL. 2010. Extending Eusociality to Include Vertebrate Family Units. Biology & Philosophy 25(3):437-440.
It's great to see one of my own ideas as the "last word" in my favorite biology journal!

*SPOILER*
Actually, I don't know why I was so generous with Marx the other night! I think it may have been the fact that I was drunk on Duvel and Delirium tremens at the time...
I would recommend anyone who thinks the stuff he says about the proletariat owning or controlling the means of production is a good idea to read Jean Baudrillard's book "The...
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I am eating a one pound serving of ravioli, also drinking my 3rd latte since I woke up at 2pm and some mineral water too. Listening to the Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten recording of Schubert's "Winterreise" and reading Temper's new blog. Great way to start off a night! Weird adventures, cool pics and rad music. Also, if you haven't heard Britten's "Rape of Lucretia", listen to...
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Well, I didn't get into ASU or Nebraska. Oddly, the Nebraska people I interviewed with in Biology just reiterated the complaints about me having too many big ideas. What a surprise, I live with my head in the clouds of esotieric philosophical and mathematical theories and... I have lots of big ideas? Who could ever have guessed such a thing!
On the other hand...it turns...
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Ladies, Gentlemen and Criminals,
ASU was great, but I'm not narrow-minded enough for their department. Nebraska was friggin' amazing... until I got to Utah. The University of Utah was fucking awesome! I interviewed with one of the most famous living theoretical biologists in the world. I hope I get in!
At noon I head to Seattle to interview at the University of Washington! I am...
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Well the year is finally getting interesting: I applied to 4 top 10 PhD programs in my field and I scored visits/interviews at 3 of them! Woohooo! I had a 4th today, a phone interview to see if one likes me or not. I guess the graduate committee at this school didn't like the idea that I work in multiple fields, bridging disciplines and obliterating...
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