I love maps. It all started when I was a child and had a puzzle of the United States. Each piece was a state and the pieces had the state capitals on them and were colored some nice pastels. I used to put that puzzle together over and over and over. When I got to […]
A bit late with this, but I did manage to see Sunday’s installment of The Complete Jane Austen — Mansfield Park. The previous version of Mansfield Park that I’d seen was directed by Patricia Rozema and starred Hannah Taylor-Gordon (DVD cover pictured to the left). While that one was indeed a nice movie, it didn’t […]
It turns out that some people don’t learn from their mistakes. From the article in The Future of Things: Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany have found a genetic factor that affects our ability to learn from our errors. The scientists demonstrated that men carrying the […]
Recently some Norwegian and Swiss biologists have made an amazing discovery. After examining genetic material, they found that the non-bacterial life (eukaryotic life) should be listed in four main groups, not the five that are currently listed in textbooks. Many people would find this discovery to be proof that science isn’t very good or doesn’t […]
I’m unabashedly pro-space research and exploration. I think it’s going to be the only way to save this planet. Many people think, or at least tell me, that all we ever got from NASA and the space program is Tang. Don’t kid yourselves, people. We got lots of advances in technology and medicine — things […]
I’ve been continuing to organize and move fiber and projects into Ziploc bags. So far it’s not so bad — or at least not as bad as I’d feared. The destruction so far: * one sock with two holes (salvage possible)* one lace shawl 3/4 done eaten so badly the yarn couldn’t be salvaged at […]
Today, the barometric pressure is very high — higher than yesterday anyway — so the migraine that’s been off and on for a while is back with a vengeance. So, rather than immediately reach for the painkillers which I’ve been trying to avoid (mainly because they’re so hard to get a Doc to give a […]
I have to admit I’m a real fan of Jane Austen’s books. I’ve read all but Lady Susan and Persuasion (though I’ve started it twice). Wouldn’t you know it, I also missed seeing Persuasion last Sunday. But, this Sunday, I managed to get myself settled down in front of the TV to view Northanger Abbey. […]