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This was started just for pictures, I swear.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Feed

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Speaking of my zombie book... I was a pretty big fan of it. Feed by Mira Grant turned out to be a rollicking little read. It opens decades ...
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

And Valentine's has passed...

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Oh, the horror of working Valentine's Day in the food industry, especially the slightly rarefied version of such that I now inhabit. Mos...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Possible new beginnings

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I haven't done anything with this in a long, long time. When I read advice about blogs I consistently hear people advising you to focus ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

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Solar powered blimp ! That is all.
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Monday, July 06, 2009

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The drug war may be finally losing support in Mexico , but it's happening when there is finally some evidence that marijuana is addictiv...
Sunday, July 05, 2009

Iran

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There are some encouraging updates coming out of Iran while everyone's attention has been focused elsewhere this weekend. The clergy see...

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Are you seriously telling me that someone in the intelligence community couldn't explain how Facebook works to his wife? Also, Penitent...

Time and time again

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The strangeness and sporadic nature of my blogging continues. I have grown so addicted to GoogleReader in the last year that I tend to just ...
Monday, February 02, 2009

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Ars Technica has a massive and absolutely gorgeous rant on e-books . I'm not going to tell you that you really do want to read a novel o...
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The Persistence of Dreaming: Ecology Edition

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It seems unlikely that an Egyptian scientist has discovered an ancient bacteria that was used by pharaohs and sterilizes sewage in seven mi...

Let them play!

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Scientific American has a whole article on the growing evidence that unstructured play is incredibly important to mental and emotional grow...
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King of Kings, or something like that...

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Oh yes, today Muammar Qaddafi was elected Chairman of the African Union .

Welcome to the Social

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It turns out that the usefulness of peer pressure for regulating behavior extends to driving .  In low-income countries, road traffic accide...

The marvelousness of coffee, part 203

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A newly designed green gadget uses coffee grinds to print from your computer (it also requires you to move the ink cartridge back and forth...

Back to the Drawing Board

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My blogging has been light to non-existant for quite a while now, but I am trying to write again. I'm sure things will be moving slowly;...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

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I've been away for a while. Once again life sort of caught up with me and my life has been somewhat frazzled. This became more annoyin...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Ephemera

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Should we be boycotting Amazon ? Rushdie is annoyed : The events depicted in the pieces I have seen are either completely invented or so dis...

It would've been awesomer with Neko Case

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Okkervil River has set up a YouTube channel and put out a session giving a glimpse at their upcoming album. Of course, the jamming includes...

Pedagogy

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Out in Australia, a dolphin who spent only a few weeks in captivity around trained dolphins appears to be teaching the females in her wild s...

Sciencey quick hits

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The silicon used in solar cells is quickly getting cheaper . The price may drop 43% in the next year. Hope fights depression and meditation...

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Matt Steinglass disputes the idea that privately-run entities are clearly better than their government-controlled peers . I am going to quot...

History

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Timbuktu has turned out to be a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts that date back to its heyday as a cultural center sometime between 80...

Booyah!

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Britain's lady linguist has won gold in the 400m .
Monday, August 18, 2008

The lion and the lamb lay down together

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Dogs and cats get along after all (but only if the cat is there first, because dogs are cute, but don't deal well with change). Also, i...

Rights and money

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Pandora may be a casualty of the new laws about royalties for internet radio, while the internet is challenging copyright on the very old ...

Quantifing romance

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There's been some interesting information in the past few days that I am dealing with all together here. Statistics are finally being ga...
Friday, August 15, 2008

The funniest thing I have read in a very long time.

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Uh, Alyssa Rosenberg is filling in at Ezra Klein's blog and she just wrote a post entitled "Star Wars and Parenting" linking ...

Dogma

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I waded into the deep waters of ranting about the way interest in education in a renaissance manner seems to have waned the other day and no...

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Anyone reading this blog is aware that I love stories about women who have done (or are doing) amazing things. Well, it turns out that the o...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Mood Enhancer

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So the post that came just before this was quite depressing, but I have links to funny things, mostly this comic from xkcd (love): The rel...

Just breathe

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There was an incident last week that was horrifying , but I assumed everyone had already heard about it because Reason has had incredible ...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Time that you learn

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That is a favorite picture of mine (I'm in the black and my sister is in red) and my family was not alone in finding this a picturesque ...

I love the word whinge

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There are amazing cool women in the world and this one is in China now: If you're watching track and field events in the coming Olympic...

I beg your patience.

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Finally, someone agrees with one of my long-cherished rants. Inside Higher Ed has published an article bemoaning the tendency for people i...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Public Service Announcement

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Coffee rocks . I am at peace with this addiction.

For my father

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Visualizations of the world's geology are coming online.

Is there any end to our obsession with male fertility?

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Egypt is DNA testing its mummies . Mummies long assumed to be the children of Tutankhamun (my spell checker and Nature appear to disagree ...

Northern Europe wants to feed the world

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The rumor on the web is that IKEA is about to start selling decently priced home solar panels . This would be so awesome. If I ever get a ho...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

What natural entails

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I spent a while today listening to my sister vent her frustration about people who express doubts about her plan to raise a "nature bab...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Fail, epic fail.

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The last blog post I wrote was about stupidity in news sources, but the scale is completely blown away by the NYT's little oops that ma...

Blargh.

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Slate has published an article about the horrible dangers of night residents who have no clue what is going on with their patients rather ...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Snap!

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The EFF rocks . Go get your ISP testing program. That is all. Hat tip: Boing boing

The Atlantic Ocean must be a pretty good fence

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It's nice that the Brits are looking towards awesome musicians from our side of the pond, but I am especially thrilled that the US musi...

Pretty

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I wish streetlights looked like this and were solar powered.
Sunday, August 03, 2008

Quote happy

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Overcoming Bias has a long and interesting post about behaviorism , (blah, blah, it sucked, but it spawned the application of actual scienc...

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Here is an art installation that ventures well into creepy territory. For his Faces of Evil project , Hans Weishäupl made composite photogra...

So you know...

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An incredibly important bill is wending its way through congress . The "publish what you pay" concept is this: a country has oil (...

Friend of a friend

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My favorite Indian design blogger just did a post on decorating for Indian weddings and she gorgeously evokes memories of friends' cele...

It's hot here.

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Some cities are built on financial markets or rock 'n' roll. Apparently, Atlanta is built on guns and marriage.

The hobgoblin of little minds

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The confusion of interpreting Žižek's wild swings between brilliance and nuttiness is the real subject (especially as it relates to the ...

My name is Meeegan

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A new study in rodents seems to show that spending time in a wheel chair after an injury dramatically impedes recovery. This is very prelimi...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Better records

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A new site is allowing people to visualize how dangerous roads are. The maps are a bit difficult to read, but it seems like a great idea.

Record keeping

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The NYT has a really great article about the recurring problems with hip replacement hardware and the power registries of health informati...

Yes, Virginia

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We have a jet-pack !
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Oh, my pretties.

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This is your regularly scheduled Inhabit update: Yes, that is a pre-fab ewok house . As one of the many women who grew up simply desperate ...

Finally

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Two wonderful things (both of which should have occurred a long, long time ago) happened yesterday. The FCC has finally made the decision to...
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