Random Thoughts

My younger kids each have a personal-sized dry erase white board and markers they use to draw things. They make Transformers or cities or cities full of Transformers. Yesterday, my 8-year-old son drew a tetrahedron on his and the word 'tet' and ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2011 - 11:37am

Modern Warfare Three has Russians invading New York. My how times have changed.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is my 24 year old Nephew's favorite game. In it Russians invade Manhattan. When I was a kid, suffice it to say, the Russians were not to be played with... except in games featuring nuclear war. People not that much you ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 1 2011 - 12:22pm

When Dreams Haunt: The Inevitability of Loss

It's a wonder I haven't had these sorts of dreams sooner, when one thinks about it. I started volunteering with hospice in July, and I've had three patients that I volunteered with die in that time. I also call about a dozen different grievi ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Dec 6 2011 - 10:17am

Childhood Obesity And Parental Responsibility: Not As Easy As Some Would Have It

Huffington Post has a piece up on whether parents of obese children are in denial. Of course, the comments are typical for Huff; there are the usual close-minded asses who assume that all obesity is a result of fat parents "sharing the misery" ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Dec 7 2011 - 6:32pm

Blame Game: When a Parent Kills and Autism is Involved in Some Way

More than a year ago, after yet another horrifying story about a parent killing her autistic child, I wrote a post on how scientific research shows that filicide is almost always accompanied by mental illness. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Dec 8 2011 - 9:42am

Dior, Caviar And Occupy Wall Street

You know you are culturally hip when magazines want to do their photo shoots with you in them- the poor Tea Party folks clearly have to get some representation in midtown Manhattan if they want to get haute couture coverage. Until then, Occupy Wall Street ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 9 2011 - 6:21pm

Squeeze and Release: The Joys of Teaching

The pressure that's squeezed me for months has loosened. It had gotten progressively stronger, more forceful, wringing me exhausted even before the morning started. It's loosened, but it's not gone, and I know that it won't ever fully l ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Dec 12 2011 - 9:58am

We Three Science Gifts For Christmas

It's two weeks until Christmas and if you are a Science 2.0 reader, that means it is at least time to think about shopping for a Christmas gift. Demographically, not a lot of you were lining up to gratefully overpay for Apple's latest offering o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2011 - 6:07pm

Jolly Holly

Christmas is one week away, and so here, for all Science 2.0 readers, is a picture of variegated Holly (Ilex aquifolium). I took it on the 10th of December this year, just as the weather was turning cold. The full-size picture is 1632 x 1224, and if you w ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 18 2011 - 1:55pm

When does Christmas start?