Random Thoughts

"It's always darkest before the dawn."No, really?My replacement: "It's always darkest in a room with no windows and no lights on."Useful, huh? The textbook I use with my composition students advises…

Kerry Cohen, author of Seeing Ezra, agreed to an interview with Kathleen Leopold and me. Kathleen's questions appear first. (This post appears at the Autism Blogs Directory) The name "Ezra" means aid…

Cowritten by Kim Wombles and Kathleen Leopold Kathleen Leopold and I have been blogging buddies for over two years now, working on various projects together, struggling to figure out our places in…

As I stared up into the dark the other morning, up before the alarm again, and already dwelling on the coming day and the need to fit everything on my to-do list into the day, my mind turned to the…

Walter Bonatti died yesterday at 81 years of age. One of Italy's greatest "old style" climbers, Bonatti is especially famous for the first ascent to the K2, the extremely hard to climb, 8611-meter-…

Squid news has been kind of slow lately, but I hate leaving this blog empty! (The frequency with which it is meant to be updated is, after all, given away in the title.) So here are a couple of…

When I create original 'op ed' or educational bits for Science 2.0 (the movement, not the website), I often start with a podcast of the topic (over at 365 Days of Astronomy).  Then, I post the…

SquidFire is having an end-of-summer sale: $5 off all their adult t-shirts. (I think it still applies even if you live in the southern hemisphere.) While not all of their gear features cephalopods,…

"Can neuroscience provide evidence for a liberal and conservative thinking style? It may seem like a stretch to say that one could predict whether you lean left or right by looking at a brain scan—no…

It slips from my fingers Cliched grains of sand. I fill my days with work Because it slips, more each Passing day...the slips Growing faster, exponentially, Until I feel that I am…