With the ongoing controversy over global climate change, it’s interesting to look back at a big scientific controversy from the 80s and 90s, “CFCs and the ozone layer”:http://www.wunderground.com/education/ozone_skeptics.asp. The CFC industry fought change for 20 years, but it turned out to be a) a worse problem than even the “doomsayers” anticipated and b) less [...]
Posted by Chris in Environment on June 29th, 2004 | Comments Off
From the BioOrganics, Inc. newsletter:
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What Do These Plants Want, Anyhow?
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It bears repeating. Providing mycorrhizal fungi spores to plants is NOT giving them something “extra.” It is NOT a miracle-plant-food-sort-of-thingy. It is NOT some sort of mystical additive.
Simply put, a plant without mycorrhizae on its root system is not equipped to uptake the necessary nutrients [...]
Posted by Deb in Organics on June 25th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
This is the _real_ reason why exploring space is important. We may think we know what we’re going to find, but we *don’t*. For example, a “comet in our own solar backyard”:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_results_040319.html has “baffled space scientists”:http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/stardust_results_040617.html by refusing to conform to our ideas of how comets should act. Silly comet.
_A detailed analysis of [...]
Posted by Chris in Space on June 18th, 2004 | Comments Off
Since I seem to be on a holy roller, here’s another little goup y’all might want to check out called Reclaiming.
Chris, it’s like the feminist wicca stuff I do, only boys get to come, too. Yay!
Starhawk started it and she’s got this great book called The Fifth Sacred Thing. It’s like a thought [...]
Posted by Deb in Religion on June 17th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
This “interesting art project”:http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/technology/circuits/17info.html sounds like the kind of thing I used to do with my 1972 World Book encyclopedia. It’s fun to take a random idea and riff on it by following links.
Posted by Chris in Art on June 17th, 2004 | Comments Off
I know, it sounds like an ad for the 700 club, but actually it’s an ad of apology and solidarity meant to be seen on Arab television.
Posted by Deb in Politics on June 16th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Roxanne’s is a restaurant where they take sustainable eating to whole new level —
WHY SWITCH TO A LIVING FOODS DIET
Living foods are the key to our health and longevity. They allow our bodies to perform as they were meant to . . .
THE INGREDIENTS
The dishes at Roxanne’s are pure, elegant and full [...]
Posted by Deb in Organics on June 15th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
I’m up first and I didn’t get to do fun birthday things this weekend, so I get to put up the Happy Birthday message. Ha! Here, for Karen’s birthday, is a very random site with a picture of a scary guy, information about people named “Chris,” and everything you want to know about people born [...]
Posted by Deana in Holiday! Celebrate! on June 14th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
A while back, I was talking to Steve about an example of how punctuation can make all the difference. Share and enjoy.
UPDATE: I originally posted this with just the link, but linkrot set in and made it less than useful. To avoid that again, I’m going to post the examples here. Note the effect [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, Language on June 11th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Karen sent me this “article on Debbie New”:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPPrint/LAC/20040529/KNIT29/Focus/, a woman who creates unusual artwork by knitting.
_When two of Debbie New’s grandchildren visited Upper Canada Village, a park depicting pioneer life just east of Cornwall, Ont., a lady in period costume spinning wool asked them, “Does your grandma knit?”_
_…Their grandmother knitted teacups, a lace coracle (a [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun on June 11th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
