Andrew Sullivan became a better writer….

through blogging according to his own blogpost, here. He mentions the use of blogging in the classroom and actually we are seeing a great deal more of that, even here in the neuroscience program at George Mason. Beyond the classroom, our students also tend to blog on their own: The Cellular Scale, is authored by one of our own Mason neuroscience doctoral students.

I’ve blogged these past eight years because I enjoy communicating the unexpected links between diverse fields–something I get to see quite a bit of in my day job.