Now y’all don’t have to bug me anymore (not that I mind): Here is a database of edible perennials . . . Plus, for those of you who are paying attention, you can read about “Green-Libertarianism” . Rrriiiight . . .
Posted by Deb in Food on September 6th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Hey, Everybody! Chris encouraged me to set up a blog and I kind of went, “Hum.” Then I get the Anthropology News yesterday, and they’re encouraging anthropologists to set up blogs, just to put our voices out there. And I thought, “Oh.” But since they had a link to a free site I decided to [...]
Posted by Deana in Fun on September 4th, 2004 | 2 Comments »
You didn’t think I forgot about our political pickle, did you? Here’s The Daily Show’s take on the overarching message of the RNC: “["Words Speak Louder Than Facts":http://video.lisarein.com/dailyshow/sept2004/bushcampaignfilmdailyshow.mov].”
Posted by Chris in Politics on September 3rd, 2004 | 3 Comments »
They may be on our dirty words list, but recent articles on “fission”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.09/china.html and “cold fusion”:http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep04/0904nfus.html might signal a new age for nuclear power. Most interesting to me is the idea of a “pebble bed reactor”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor or “cold fusion bottle”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion providing megawatts of power to Mars missions and other weight-conscious applications without having to compromise [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on September 3rd, 2004 | Comments Off
Some of you know of my interest in Susan McCarthy’s, Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Larn to Live in the Wild (that link is to a great blog entry about one of her book signings in San Diego). McCarthy worries that humans will never be able to teach captive-raised animals natural behaviors. Well, according [...]
Posted by Deana in Science on September 2nd, 2004 | 4 Comments »
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