Remember my post awhile ago about the connection between Earth and the Sun that occurs every eight minutes, well looks like more can happen during that connection than scientists first thought. NASA today released an interesting article about a recent discovery by the THEMIS project. It seems that during the connection, while THEMIS was actually […]
I read today a short quote from Oscar Wilde: , “A school should be the most beautiful place in every town and village – so beautiful that the punishments for undutiful children should be that they should be debarred from going to school the following day.” I checked to see that he’d said it and […]
You’re probably wondering why I have a cup as the image for this post. Well, this is the new December coffee cup. There was a bit of an accident with the original December coffee cup. I was making bread and opened the cupboard to get out the measuring cups when the cupboard exploded. Well, it […]
I was pointed to a website with an example of genetic programming where the result was a pretty darn good approximation of the Mona Lisa. Roger Alsing had done the programming to just have some fun, try out some code — and I presume stretch a bit in a different direction than he usually got […]
It’s cold outside. Well, cold for Maryland. Yesterday there was a lot of wind as well, but today it’s just a calm, cold, cold, day. I miss the seasons. I grew up in Maine in a small town called Mexico. Yeah, I know. It’s on the famous Maine sign at the Tourist Information Center just […]
A recent study, announced in BBC News, says that scientists have evidence that happiness is infectious. I don’t think that’s particularly new news, especially if you’re the type of person who studies the people around them. I’m a writer, so I love to people watch. I noticed many times that people may be grumpy, but […]
Tonight we watched An Inconvenient Truth on DVD. We’d been meaning to for a while since we’ve heard so much about it — for and against. What did I think? It’s excellent. The case for global warming is made in a clear, straightforward manner backed up by graphs, photos, and scientific evidence. I doubt if […]
I got bored the other day and found a new time sink. I needed to finish a sweater I was working on and stuff a bear or two — so I wanted something to watch. But, I didn’t want to go to the TV. YouTube videos are usually short. Someone had told me about Hulu.com […]