M: I have a new book for school — Anne of Green Gables. Me: Oh, that’s a good one. I like that book. M: That girl talks way too much.
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Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Thu Sep 08, 2011
Drunken moose found tangled in a tree in Sweden
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Aug 31, 2011
Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Aug 24, 2011
Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant Willpower depletion and the brownie decision
Tomatoes, at long last
Tomatoes, at long last Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. They’ve been sitting there greenly for several weeks now and I was starting to lose hope that they’d ever turn red. Of
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Aug 17, 2011
Escaping gravity’s clutches: Information could escape from black holes after all, study suggests Dark beer has more iron than pale beer or non-alcoholic beer
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Aug 10, 2011
How to eliminate motion sickness on tilting trains Vampire Bats Have Vein Sensors Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: The Case of Italian Academia Is our universe inside a bubble?
The news, it burns
(Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) Quotation of the Day for August 7, 2011 “A study of history shows that civilizations that abandon the quest for knowledge are doomed to disintegration.” –
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Aug 03, 2011
Well: How Chocolate Can Help Your Workout
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jul 27, 2011
Full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack, study shows Treadmill tests for heavy armour To win at rock-paper-scissors, put on a blindfold
Camp!
Once upon a time I was staffing a camp bus and there was this one little boy of about eight who DID NOT want to go to camp. He clung
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jul 20, 2011
Does Chinese chocolate taste better than Swiss? Depends on when you find out Swarm of Jellyfish Shuts Down a Scottish Nuclear Power Plant
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jul 13, 2011
Men steal stuffed alligator, go to mud party. Alcohol may have been a factor Mosquitoes attracted to beer drinkers, researchers say That’s One Huge Wombat Whining May Be World’s Most
It’s Spiderman! It’s a pirate! It’s both!
My nephew was apparently in need of some of his own dress-up clothes so for his 3rd birthday recently, I made him a cape using these fabrics and this tutorial:
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jul 06, 2011
Physicists: Universe Almost Certainly Not a Hologram
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Mon Jun 20, 2011
Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates Dogs Discriminate Identical Twins Emergency department visits during an Olympic gold medal television broadcast
An Ode to Popcorn
Among the detritus that came home at the end of the school year, I found M’s poetry notebook. They covered cinquains, rhyming couplets and odes. It is a brave teacher,
In Which I Read Stuff: Nonfiction
I had the feeling I wasn’t actually reading much nonfiction lately, but looking at the piles on my floor and the history of my library borrowings that isn’t actually true.
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Mon Jun 13, 2011
Oh, Crap! Moscow Mulls Terrorist-Proof Toilets Extreme Conservation Leads to Recovery of the Virunga Mountain Gorillas The return of measles: Where did we go wrong?
Snort.
Sometimes we use Twitter to conduct highly professional conversations. It’s probably a good thing none of us plans to run for public office. (And yes, I did ask both of