Random Thoughts
- More Weedy Ruminations
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Though I have been gardening less and getting back to freelance writing, my wondering about invasive species has been growing like a weeds, like Creeping Camanula perhaps. Creeping Campanula (a.k.a. Campanula rapunculoides or Creeping Bellflower) can seem ...
Blog Post - Anonymous - Jul 6 2010 - 8:45am
- Freedom For Our Kids?
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This is a post that has nothing to do with physics or other sciences, for once. I just report here my thoughts as a father upon allowing my 11-years-old son to go spend a day to the beach alone with his friends. Is it too early? Is it about time? ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 6 2010 - 8:25am
- Show her your love is as big as the whole solar system
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'Show her your love is as bag as the whole solar system' sounds like a schlocky sales pitch, right? Well, it is but the Laura Cesari, a.k.a. Chain of Being, Solar System Necklace is just too awesome not to be schlocky about. Now, there is a big ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2010 - 8:43pm
- The ChatterBox Arctic Index
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The ChatterBox Arctic Index This index is a work in progress. I am trying to make it easier for my readers to find articles which may be of interest to them. Comments are disabled for index pages. This Arctic Index lists articles which are either direct ...
Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Aug 1 2011 - 6:32pm
- The Say Of The Week
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"Eighty percent of success is showing up" W.Allen ...
Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 12 2010 - 11:51am
- Who do you write like?
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Making the rounds today is a utility written by Coding Robots that analyzes your prose and then matches it with famous (note: not necessarily someone you like) authors. Among the blogosphere outside Science 2.0 I have seen 4 Margaret Atwoods, 3 Dan Browns, ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2010 - 1:30pm
- Mosquito Buzz: Safer Bites
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University of Arizona (UA) scientists have announced their success in genetically altering mosquitos to be immune to the single-celled parasite that causes malaria. Professor of entomology Michaiel Riehle led the UA research team hoping to stop the spread ...
Blog Post - Anonymous - Jul 19 2010 - 5:54pm
- Bora makes a farewell to Scienceblogs
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Scienceblogs.com stalwart Bora Zivkovic has bid farewell to that site, the latest in a series of defections they hyper-dramatize as a 'diaspora' due to recent events, but he says it isn't about Pepsigate, just a general change in the overall ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 20 2010 - 9:47am
- Why Do We Cry? Eight Half-Baked Ideas
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Crying is a waste of perfectly good water. So why we do it? I have no idea, so I would like to hear your ideas. To get the ball rolling, here are eight hypotheses, each surely inadequate and probably false. ...
Article - Mark Changizi - Jul 20 2010 - 9:41am
- Another Change... Can You Keep Up?
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Dear gentle readers and the lovely and talented Scientific Blogging/Science 2.0 community, You may have noticed that I have not been around much lately, and I felt I should let everyone know what has been going on. I have recently left Boston *wiping tears ...
Blog Post - Andrea Kuszewski - Jul 20 2010 - 2:43pm
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