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2015 Gardening Resolutions
Here's all the resolutions that came to mind. Probably have forgotten a couple, but these are enough to try to avoid breaking for now. The main resolution is to take time to enjoy the process and...
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It's a cat's life
Our cats really have it made. Being home for several days during the holidays you get to see the extraordinary activity level of the typical domestic cat first hand. Yes, if ever one of those cat-cams...
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What I read (2014)
(Grade A-F, no E's) Title-Author Additional thoughtsB+ The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Good story, can see why it was wildly popular. Not a fan of the ending though, Collins sets up issues...
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Outstanding trees! Outstanding photography!
Here's a teaser photoessay of some amazing trees, mostly massive old things, truly great trees, "behemoths of biomass and beauty" (the quoted phrase is not TPP's, but he doesn't remember where he saw...
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January 2015 Desktop Calendar
I spent the holidays visiting family in Cincinnati, Ohio and got some nice shots of mosses peaking through the cracks in my mom's back patio. I took two photos that I thought would make a nice January...
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Naomi Oreskes and false positives in climate change: Do we know enough?
Historian of science Naomi Oreskes who has long since been a campaigner against climate change and science denialists (her book "Merchants of Doubt" is a touchstone in this regard) has a New York Times...
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Energy Tree
You'll be completely blown away by a pretty cool design for some urban green energy, a wind turbine tree, by New Wind. Let's face it, those great big old wind turbines dotting our local landscape are...
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New York governor must decide today about law that protects doctors offering bogus treatments for Chronic Lyme Disease - GMPReturn home from SciAm Blogs - SWIn the matter of Walter Lewin, MIT goes...
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Recently On Field of Science
2015 Gardening Resolutions - TPP »Naomi Oreskes and false positives in climate change: Do we know enough? - CW »The deadly irony of gunpowder - DM »A tribute to the Year of Crystallography - HG »Does a...
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January 6, 1912: Happy Birthday Continental Drift!
January 6, 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener presented in a lecture entitled “Die Heraushebung der Großformen der Erdrinde (Kontinente und Ozeane) auf geophysikalischer Grundlage” (The...
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Snow & cold
Well, it is winter so some snow & cold is expected. Yesterday and last night's snowfall only accumulated some 4-5 inches, our first significant snow of this winter season. As par for the course, a...
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Is a white potoato a vegetable?
Perhaps spurred by potential squabbles over school lunch nurtitional guidelines, TPP has been asked this simple question. The simple answer is, yes, the white potato is a vegetable, which by definition...
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Transformations with dirty DNA
The previous post considers ways to test the effects on transformation of chromosomal proteins bound to donor DNA, by gently lysing donor cells and transforming recipient cells with the crude lysate....
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RNAseq success!
The sequences are back for our big RNAseq project, and the big good news is that the RNA preps were of good enough quality to give useful sequences for all the samples! Thos was very much in doubt,...
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Flu-like substance
TPP has a flu-like substance, some sort of horrible head-cold nasal crud, or as the lads may say, he's feeling crook because he's got a wog. No amount of wonder drugs will improve how he's feeling, and...
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A Flat White! Yes, please!
Flat whites have come to the USA and that is such good news. TPP has spent a lot of time down under and has learned that one of the best coffees is a flat white. TPP would explain the difference...
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