ABSTRACT There are 42, exactly. – – – Key acronyms: JAL, EO, UW, CSU, MSU, ATBI, INBio, OUTBio, NTFC, and BINGO! INTRODUCTION For what seems to be an interminable period of time biologists have been whining that all of the other sciences know more about their basic inventories than we do. Chemists have filled out the periodic table (except for rare reports of newly discovered, ridiculous elements, such as Whocaresium with a half-life of a picosecond); physicists have completed their quark menu (including all 31 flavors), astronomers have catalogued the stars (in fact, they have a few dozen catalogues suggesting…
The Science Creative Quarterly
By Jeff A. Lockwood
Jeff Lockwood is a professor of natural sciences and humanities at the University of Wyoming, having begun his career in entomology then metamorphosed into a joint appointment between the department of philosophy and the MFA program in creative writing. This means that he knows something about everything that matters. In fact, he's virtually a one-man university being an ecologist, a philosopher, and a writer. He even knows that self-serving biographies are somehow more convincing when written in the third person.