This morning I caught sight of an article entitled, “U.S. scientists design underpants that could save lives“. Actually, the article I saw pointed to this article and said something like “Military pays for Hi-Tech underpants”. It was the title that caught me but it’s the article that got me thinking. Here’s a the information that […]
March 14th is PI day 3.14. It’s also the day to reset clocks…hmmm I think that’s a conspiracy to mess with my sense of time.
A NASA report says that the Chilean Earthquakee may have shifted the mass balance of our planet. Earth is not a perfect sphere. Continents and oceans are distributed unevenly around the planet. There’s more land in the north, more water in the south, a great ocean in the west, and so on. As a result […]
Today has been a real challenge. Most of last week I kept having lower back pain on top of the usual fibromyalgia issues. It was constant pain with, now and then, a bad twinge. Finally, today I just couldn’t take it anymore and took a muscle relaxer. I figured I’d been thinking it was kidneys […]
Many years ago, when I was a young’un, the list of criteria for being sentient was quite short and only humans qualified. Over the years, the criteria for sentience has subtly and quietly changed as more and more animals were found to qualify. For example, some animals were found to use tools, so tool using […]
It has rained all day today. It seems like it’s rained more than not lately. Matches my mood though since I’ve been headachy and out of sorts — maybe flu maybe not. Hyperion though definitely has the flu but is back to work (out of sick time). Luckily the Thanksgiving holiday is coming up so […]
Well, I hum when I’m contented too. I couldn’t resist this article when I saw it on BBC Earth News — The Man who walks with Bears. Professor Lynn Rogers has been studying black bears for the last 43 years, learning their behavior, their rules of conduct, and their idiosyncrasies. A BBC film crew followed […]
I was sent the link to this YouTube video yesterday and just loved the sentiment and the music. Originally published on YouTube on September 17th, 2009 it is a beautiful tribute by Melodysheep (John). Here’s what he says about this piece: A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist […]