About me
I am a graduate of Grinnell College with a degree in Biological Chemistry. The name of this blog is derived from the name I use in Chinese, 孟柏民 (Mèng Bómín).
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Monthly Archives: June 2007
A quick overview of my religious views
I’ve recently posted a few thoughts on stem cell research and synthetic life. In both topics I bring up in general terms, views typical to Christian conservatives in the United States. As I have not yet discussed my own religious … Continue reading
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Microbial genome-swapping: a step toward real "Intelligent Design"
The researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute have managed to transplant the genome from one bacterium into another. Basically, they made some modifications to the genome of Mycoplasma mycoides to make it resistant to an anitbiotic, purified the DNA (stripped it … Continue reading
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Today is my birthday
Today marks the completion of the Earth’s twentieth revolution around the sun since my birth, so now I can no longer be called a teenager.
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New blog direction
I just spent some time categorizing old posts from Blogger. Upon completion of this tedious task, this is what my tag cloud looked like: I was basically using it as a publicly accessible diary. It’s interesting information to read, especially … Continue reading
About naming
So now that I have two blogs with virtually identical content (see the Blogger version here), I thought I might touch on one of the differences between the blogs…the name. The name of this blog is Terra Nova, which, as … Continue reading
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Trying out WordPress
When I initially started my blog on Blogger, I was not aware of other options for blog posting and I likely didn’t really care either. At the time, I was very excited about all things Google, and since Blogger was … Continue reading
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Embryonic stem cells and Bush
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you know that President Bush recently vetoed another bill that allocated funding to research on embryonic stem cells saying that “Destroying human life in the hopes of saving human life is not … Continue reading
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Some of my thoughts on mp3 players
Since my last post was about my experience with getting my mp3 player replaced, I figured that I’d post my opinion. I know I’m not the foremost authority on the subject, only having owned one mp3 player for myself, but … Continue reading
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My mp3 player issues
In February, I bought a SanDisk Sansa e260 mp3 player at the Grinnell Super Wal-Mart. It was the first mp3 player I have ever bought and I really liked it. It’s a flash player, like an iPod nano, except it … Continue reading
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Now for that personal rambling
I thought that since I haven’t posted anything since last year, I’d start by updating how things are going for me. I finished my sophomore year at Grinnell College this past year. My second semester was less than stellar, but … Continue reading
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Meng Bomin 