I’ve been reading The Art of Subtext, a book about fiction and subtext by Charles Baxter. In a passage I read last night, Baxter writes ...
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Science Saturday
[Note: While the timestamp on this post is January 13, 12:59AM, it was actually posted EST, 11:59PM on January 12. Technically, it is Saturday. ...
Science Saturday
Yes, But Could They Do a Triple Lutz? Archaeological evidence shows that bone skates (skates made of animal bones) are the oldest human-powered ...
Science Saturday
Could a Monkey Really Do Your Job? Boxer and Feinstein, two female rhesus macaque monkeys presumably named after California’s U.S. ...
Science Saturday: The Sunday Edition
This Science Saturday is a salute to Mount Washington. Not for any particular reason, except that I have pictures of it and it’s one of my ...
Science Saturday: The One-Day-Late Edition
Good News/Bad News on Climate Change. You probably want the bad news first, right? ScienceDaily reported on December 7 that climate change will ...
Science Saturday: The Gift Edition
I’ve only recently discovered my inner geek, mostly through PBS documentaries and web sites like TED. But in my ongoing quest to be the ...
Science Saturday: The Snarky Edition
And he calls them “creepy-crawlies”? Scientists found a gigantic claw, presumed to be part of an eight-foot [astonished italics mine] ...
U2: Out of Africa
My geno-journey is complete. Not a big surprise, but I come from the haplogroup U2. Here’s what is known: Family Tree DNA’s ...
Science Saturday
It’s All in Your Head. Diagnostic testing for multiple sclerosis has been notoriously difficult and not entirely reliable over the years. ...
Science Saturday
Seeing stars. CNET reported earlier this week that Google Earth has a new feature called Sky, which prompted me to finally download Google Earth ...
Science Saturday
I’m taking a geno-journey. I’m a bit late to the game but I caught a rerun of the National Geographic documentary Journey of Man on ...