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Cat behavior - instinct and learned
Cats have it pretty good around the Phactor household. Kibble twice a day, lots of places to sleep, lots of nice windows, humans to provide some rubbing and petting when it's wanted. What a deal....
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Monocycle desire
Oh, man, TPP has a serious case of monocycle desire. What a magnificent thing this is! The monocycle RYNO is built on the same principle as the Segway, so you can't really lose your balance; lean...
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My turn to do lab meeting
I've been so absorbed in my Useful Genetics course that I've let our weekly lab meetings lapse over the last few months. But I've set up a new schedule and today it's my turn to present. Of course I...
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Baobabs in trouble
Baobabs are remarkable trees, so weirdly strange as to seem other worldly, and they mostly live in Madagascar, a hot bed of extinction. Here's a news report from Scientific American about how...
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Swapping Bodies with a Child Makes Everything Seem Bigger
Remember revisiting your preschool or kindergarten classroom once you were older, and realizing all those tables and sinks that are normal-sized in your memory were actually miniature? And that the...
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Friday Fabulous Flower - a yellow loosestrife
A sort of rock garden area between a path and the margin of our lily pond was screaming for some color. Without a whole lot of thought, or knowledge, TPP grabbed some of these prostrate yellow...
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Memo to chemists: Move away from the molecule
Megacities of the future - with their heterogeneous population and large-scale problems - will challenges the imagination of chemists (Image: Bldg Blog)Harvard chemist George Whitesides probably does...
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First evidence of photon polarisation in a quark transition
posted by @ulaulaman via @LHCbExperiment #newPhysics #StandardModel #LHC #CERN There are a lot of model about physics beyond standard model, and the experimental work is concentrate to search signals...
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Apple Academic Press: Predatory publisher of scholarly books
A colleague just discovered that an article she published in the BioMed Central journal Epigenetics and Chromatin has been republished, without her knowledge or consent, in a book, Epigenetics,...
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Some things are good dry, gardens are not one of them
Dry wine, good. Dry humor, good. Dry clothes, good. Dry garden, not good. Plants are beginning to suffer as a drought takes hold of our particular area of the upper Midwest. Any percent chance of...
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Sweet Hearts and Frogs
Last week I was at a workshop on teaching in British Columbia where I learned to make a string from a stick (if you're talking about teaching, it's really useful to be put in a situation where you have...
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Water relief and toast
Hooray! All of those burnt offerings paid off and the notoriously fickle Midwestern weather gods presented us with an inch of rain overnight. Plants, even many of those that had shown no signs of...
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Rick called
Rick Sanctimonious called. He wanted to tell me how outraged he was. Lots of things outrage Rick, and mostly it would seem it's people's freedom to do things that Rick doesn't like, and there are...
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Pitchfork Mosses
Dicranum flagellare, photographed by Sue. The upright green stalks are the brood branches. The subject of today's post is the cosmopolitan moss genus Dicranum, sometimes known as fork mosses or,...
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Newt called
Wow, is TPP popular! Newt called. Who knew he was still around? At any rate, Newt is angry and outraged, and just plain pissed, and every loyal 'Mercan should be too, because the gumint just isn't...
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Uncoordinated Eyeballs Keep Kids from Reading like Adults
Before new readers can move from Dr. Seuss to Doctor Zhivago, it's not only their vocabulary and appreciation of the Russian aesthetic that have to mature. Young eyes just don't move across words as...
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Those fish oil supplements might cause cancer
Eating fish is good for you, especially fish that contain omega-3 fatty acids. So I was surprised last week to read a new study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that found that omega-3...
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A wake for scholarship
An emeritus professor has a small office across the hall, but declining health has kept him from using it very often these past couple of years, so he was asked to pack it in so that a new faculty...
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The equation of everything
posted by @ulaulaman about #EulerEquation #CedricVillani #mathematics #physics Following Cedric Villani, let you imagine a pond. Everything is calm and quiet, without a breath of wind, but at acertain...
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Happy Birthday Dr. Franklin
Google celebrates Rosalind Franklin's 93rd birthday! Hurray for Science and Hurray for Google's celebration of Scientists!
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