The four month old baby giggled, kicked, and drooled as we laid her onto the exam table. She was a healthy baby coming in to our pediatric clinic for a well child check up. Around 4-6 months of age, we recommend the introduction of solid foods to parents, so I discussed this with mom. My […]
Nerd Heaven
I just returned from the Stanford Immunology Departmental Retreat in Asilomar, down in Monterrey on the California coast. What a retreat entails is researchers from across our department, including grad students, post-docs, and professors clinical and basic, present their research back-to-back. Over three days we see a few dozen 15-30 minute powerpoint presentations on what everyone has been working […]
Jumping from failure to failure
I just finished watching the movie Particle Fever, about the decades-long race to get the CERN Large Hadron Collider up and running. It’s a fun little documentary that ends up being 2/3 suspenseful “will it work” drama and 1/3 particle physics science. I enjoyed it, because since I know next to nothing about physics it […]
