Current Projects

     As an intellectual sponsored by Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY), it is only just that I direct my work towards studying in ways and producing blogs that help the business which improves my mind with its medicine.  Therefore, I am undertaking two projects that are directed towards helping Lilly stock rise.

The first is reading a book that was sold by The Ayn Rand Institute eStore called Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea.  This project is aimed at arming myself with a better understanding of certain immoral politicians in the Republican Party, such as Jeb Bush.

The second project is scientific in nature.  I plan to read a major part of a General Biology textbook.  It is the section on human and animal biology, the need of which involves an interesting story from my college years.

If I could have named the specific major I wanted in college it would have been Fisheries Ecology.  I had wanted to study that for many years in high school and in my youth.  While I had picked up some environmentalism in my formal and self-education, back then, before the discovery of Objectivism wiped it all out, that was not my goal.  I wanted to study natural freshwater systems.  I had no motivation to control the fisheries industry.

One day in college, I discovered a new computer game called, Railroad Tycoon.  It was an extremely addictive game.  I think I played it for 24 hours straight, and then went to bed--only to get back on my computer when I woke up.  I knew I should not be neglecting my studies--let alone be skipping class; but the game was just so good!

In my General Biology class, at this time, we were getting into human anatomy and physiology which didn't help.  I had no interest in going into anything medical after college--so I had about zero motivation to do the reading, or even to go to that class.  Well, after many transcontinental railroad crossings, I finally went to biology a week later to discover that all my friends thought I had dropped the class.  I not only missed taking notes; I didn't read a thing in the textbook.  It turned out that I failed the test on that section--giving me a grade in the "C" range in the base class closest to my major--which is really bad.

I was normally a very good student in high school and college--except for the college sophomore year when I put everything into the Crew Team.  But, that is a story for another blog.  The point of this one is that I am somewhat ignorant on human anatomy and physiology.  So, I am endeavoring to read about a 300 page textbook section in a General Biology book to try to gain the basic vocabulary and concepts.  This should help me to understand the language of medicine much better as I continue to read and blog for Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY).

Paul Wharton
Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY)