ABOUT ScienTable
Writing desk      When I was a child in elementary school our teacher set up a table in the back of the classroom and told us to bring things that we thought our classmates would be interested in like shells from the beach, a bird's nest, a pretty flower or the discarded skin of a snake. She called it our Science Table and it was loved by everyone. Each morning as we walked in we would stop by the table to see what new items had been placed there. During the day some of us would show the class our discoveries and tell how we had found them and what we thought they were. My love of Nature and the beauty of natural things was born and nurtured in that classroom. I resolved to become a scientist so I could study these marvelous things and really learn about them, and so I did. I earned a degree in biochemistry from the University of South Florida in 1998 and have since been engaged in teaching and research. Biochemistry is primarily a lab science but I try to spend as much time as I can outside exploring nature--even if it is only in my back yard.

        Hello friends,and welcome to my science website. Together we'll explore the infinite and the microscopic, the ancient and the not-yet-dreamed-of, the people, places, and things of science. My aim is to show you what makes scientists tick and why they love what they do. We're all scientists in a way because we all do 'experiments' in our life, observe the results, and do things according to what we find out. Scientists do exactly the same except they do it more 'scientifically'.

        I plan to use this website as a combination science journal and educational tool to talk about the interesting, the unusual, and--of course--the curious. I want to tell you about beautiful and unusual plants, delicious fungi, strange bird behavior, leaping lizards, doodlebugs, scientific research, tidbits from netsurfing, and a million other items, some of which at least I hope will interest, intrigue, and entertain you. Someone defined a specialist as a person who knows an immense amount about a very little. That is all very well and I am happy that my dentist and my auto mechanic are specialists. But the mind of man seems to me to be made for wide leaps from subject to subject together with the unique ability to make connections and draw new inferences from a myriad of seemingly unrelated ideas. Plus, looking at things that way is just pure fun! I like to use my brain and I like to see new things and learn about them. If you are the same, then I hope you will enjoy my ramblings, personal, unstructured and diverse as they are, but hopefully with some bits of wisdom. And please! Comments are encouraged and disagreements--thoughtfully presented--are welcome.

        So, take a moment to read what I have to say. Sign the guest book and tell me what you think. The internet is the greatest invention ever for testing out new ideas. If we spent more time talking to one another, perhaps we would find that we're all the same at heart.

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