compersion & limerence

So: I have this RL history of developmental biology project that I have been exceedingly bad at doing, even though I keep claiming to really care deeply about it; part of my issue is that the research is extremely daunting in a field that I am technically familiar with but not historically so. It's basically developmental biology at the turn of the century through the present day (I say, blithefully, pretending as if > one hundred years of scientific and political history will be totally easy and trivial to learn and then pick apart for societal trends that project into the future as well hmmm).

I am telling myself that I do better when I'm parsing things for an imagined audience (i.e. to learn something teach it to someone else), so, some (exceedingly lightweight) notes on Edmund Beecher Wilson, American father of developmental biology!

( a few general comments about the field of dev bio )

( Edmund Beecher Wilson! )