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New Experiment: Finding Explanations
Suppose that John is angry. This might be just a feature of his personality. It might be that something aggravating just happened to him. I suppose that is also possible that he took an “unhappy”...
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Creepy Fall Color
Here's some fall color TPP spotted on his walk home today. Fall color around here is just about at its peak and the weather is doing its best to make the display short-lived. This display caught my...
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Why are religious people so fertile?
On average, religious people have more children than non-religious people. Now, that's a sweeping generalisation, of course. However, statistically it seems to hold good, to different degrees, for all...
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Dolphins Pull Endless All-Nighters by Resting Half of Brain at Once
Prepare to be jealous, perpetual to-do-listers of the world: because it shuts down only one side of its brain at a time, the dolphin never needs to sleep. Dolphins don't even seem to slow down. When...
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Tree Diversity Day - some days past
How can they do these things without alerting TPP? October 11 was Tree Diversity Day and who knew? Biodiversity International didn't put anything on their webpage until Oct. 18th. Nothing would...
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Very cool E-bike
For the longest time TPP has loved his BikeE, but here's an E-bike that is very cool, and very cute. It's an all electric bike. Notice the lack of a chain. Pedalling just charges the batteries so...
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Fall color to plant - Black Tupelo
One new addition to our gardens, a weeping black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica - "Autumn Cascade") not only survived the hot, dry summer in good condition, but its fall color is quite spectacular although...
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Spicy suggestions needed
The Phactors host visiting foreign students regularly. One liked us well enough to return for a visit and she brought us some fancy and rather exotic spices, so how about some suggestions on how to...
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New Moss Gardening Book
A new book about moss gardening is out! The Secret Lives of Mosses: A Comprehensive Guide for Gardeners by Stephanie Stuber. The book is available in a variety of digital formats and in paperback....
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The Dilleniaceae: Tropical Enigmas
Flower and opened fruit of the 'red beech', Dillenia alata, from here. In recent years, molecular analyses of often very large data sets have given us a reasonably good picture of the evolution of...
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Warning: Liberal within!
The GnOPe of Lincolnland wants my vote; not for anyone in particular, not for any particular issue or agenda, just in general, more or less for everything. In fact the missive sent to me only features...
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What you missed in the last 2 weeks on the Internet - 10/22
Americans smarter than you thought Or so says Mark Liberman, who analyzes some prominent examples of the "Fewer than X% of Americans knowY" meme. Keep analyzing until you have a significant result...
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Not everything is black and white; this is!
OK, what's black and white, cute as all get out, and hangs around on Mondays munching bamboo? Here's a dose of cute to chase away the Monday blahs.
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You Have to Hear This Beluga Mimicking a Person
At first, they couldn't tell where the sound was coming from. Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation kept hearing what sounded like a muffled conversation, as if two people were talking...
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Multivitamins and cancer: a mixed bag
A major new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) came to the surprising conclusion that "daily multivitamin supplementation modestly but significantly...
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Carnival of Evolution statistics
David Morrison just hosted Carnival f Evolution #52, and now he has written a post with lots of statistics of CoE: The network history of the Carnival of Evolution. In short, we're doing quite well...
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Journal of Mathgenerators, vol.1 issue 1
It's on-line the first issue of a new, impressive journal. The papers are really interesting, and here there are the abstracts: Sub-Smooth, Laplace, Locally Di erentiable Ideals and Tropical...
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Can you eat flowering kale?
A curious reader wants to know if you can eat flowering kale? Yes. That was easy. Flowering kale differs from regular kale in having short internodes so the leaves make a dense rosette of leaves....
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Inequality drives everyone, but especially the poor, to support religious...
It's now widely recognised that social and economic inequality is an important factor related to how religious a given society is. But what's less clear is whether inequality actually increases...
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The toughest cop "alive"
At little while back, while walking down the street and minding my own business, I saw the following advertisement: This looks like a scare quote; the implication is that Ace Ticket is nowhere near...
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