I file this under the kind of "creative idea" that just goes too far. The folks over at CDW-G have a online tool for measuring your school safety index. This one uses "Scholar-Athlete" as the most desirable classification, and from there the go to "Jock", "Remedial" and "Nerd". The idea is to illustrate the balanced goal of having physical security that's both technology based and physically focused. Nothing new - you can't swing a dead ...

Way back in April - I wrote about a new book by P. Michael Conn, The Animal Research War. Between then an now I've been able to finally read the book. It's not often that you'll find a research scientist write about topics that are not specifically scientific in nature, but Conn has shown that he's just as capable an author in both genres. Essentially, he's taken all the available fragments of information pertaining to ...