At first I thought it was an optical illusion, but there actually is a rainbow-like halo around Doug’s head. When Maggie and I were in trouble, car broken, far from Ballard, Maggie in pain–he came to the rescue. After a day of work, no less, on his way home from Microsoft, he went out of [...]
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I’ve started calling our Ford Bronco the Global Warmer, or the Inconvenient Truck. Since my Saturn died a terrible thrown rod death, I’ve been driving the Polar Bear Killer or taking the bus, trying to balance the two according to errands I have to run.
I read in a New Yorker article today (“Big Foot” by [...]
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Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson. PZ Myers. Phil Plait. Penn & Teller. Dr. Richard Wiseman. Adam Savage (from Mythbusters). Steve Novella. Paul Provenza. The Amazing Randi. If you don’t know them, Google them.
That’s just a small part of the list of speakers at this year’s Amazing Meeting. Won’t you meet me in the melting heat of [...]
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After a day of breathing laser printer particulates, an evening of frustration because I have no time to do everything I need and want to do, I wake up at 5 a.m. with a runny nose and a bad attitude. Reading blogs, going back to sleep, fearing my cell phone, looking for something to complain [...]
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There’s this theory about the earth’s shadow moving across the moon, but it’s just a theory, isn’t it? I was out watching the moon from our yard. As far as I could tell, a huge gauzy turtle slowly swam across the night sky and made the moon all dark and reddish. The red was the [...]
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According to Phil Plait at the wonderful Bad Astronomy blog, the presidential science debate is scheduled for my birthday in April, and the candidates have been invited. All you have to do is write to your favorite, or least favorite, or any-flavor-of-favorite candidate and tell him or her that you want him or her to [...]
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If you don’t already spend time at skepchick.org, then here’s your reason to go. It’s a priceless film clip called “The Godless Girl” by the famous Cecile B. DeMille.
Swear on the monkey, but don’t high-hat him
Scot sent me a link to this fabulous item from the last TED conference.
Theo Jansen’s fantastic walking art creatures.
You [...]
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I urge you, my three or four readers, to give your support to the effort to have a Science Debate–a debate between presidential nominees on issues surrounding science. It isn’t designed to see how much candidates know about science. It’s a way to get at their beliefs and plans regarding such things as government funding [...]
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