Blogs I Read: Life Sciences

Cotton-Pickin’ Days is the personal blog of my good friend, the geneticist Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei. The Grrl Scientist is a zoologist who tackles everything from little hippos to the Simpsons in her blog. I read both of these women not just because they are smart and well-educated, but because they have an unquenchable thirst for sharing knowledge and informed opinion.

At a time when politicians have declared that scientists are impossible to understand and told us to be comfortable in our ignorance, I feel that these women are engaged in a brave act, reminding us that everything that surrounds us has a purpose, that we have a stake in the design and that nothing is too complex for us to understand. I am not willing to return to the days of mythology, when people like the ancient Greeks had to make up a story to explain what they did not understand. I want to be part of the quest for understanding. By reading these two blogs, I think I’m on the way there.

I want more bloggers to start asking what do you think rather than how do you feel.

So, what do you think?