I just love it when science finds that not only is eating chocolate okay — it’s even good for you. Of course, not for all of us — a friend of mine gets migraines if she has too much chocolate, or even a bit of it. But then for the rest of the chocoholics of […]
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I was reading some techie sites today and they mentioned the LHC Rap had more hits than the Astrobiology Rap. So naturally, I had to check this out. Jonathan Chase loves rap and has melded it with his love of science. Even his rapper name, Oort Kuiper, is a nod to his passion for science. […]
Normally, I don’t pass these things on because I don’t really know where they came from. This one is different, it’s from the daughter of friend. My friend rewrote it so it could be posted and sent to others. Read and ponder, and if you can do something to help, please do so. Evidently, FEMA […]
Time. Time has always been relative. Remember when you were young and summer was just this long season of lazy days filled with nothing to do but enjoy the time off from school? Remember when you wished every day that you were older so you could do whatever it is that you needed to be […]
I love teapots and have a small collection of them. So, when I saw 500 Teapots, I decided that it would be fun to see the variations on a theme that potters would come up with. Let’s get my biases up front. I love it when form and function come together and the object is […]
So, we stopped in to Starbucks this past weekend for coffee (me) and hot chocolate (Hyperion) and picked up issue No. 001 September 11-17, 2008. This issue is Carbon Emissions: A Field Guide to American’s Favorite Greenhouse Gas. It’s one sheet folded in a manga size (height x width) not thickness. An advertisement for Hybrids, […]
I saw this in the library and picked it up. I’d been noticing it in the bookstores and flipped through it quickly but didn’t want to buy on a flip through so did my usual and got it out of the library first for a closer look. This is a great book if you haven’t […]
Somehow I missed the first volume of this manga series by Amy Reeder Hadley. This is a story of two girls. Penny, high-school student and clothing designer, has formed a club in her high school for girls only to learn how to recognize jerks and avoid dating them. She’s even developed a list of boys […]