It just so happens that I have a friend in the coffee and tea business. Better yet, they do fair trade, organic coffee and tea. Plus, I’ve got a can of their coffee beans sitting on my desk that I get to sniff at regular intervals. Yum!
Don’t you wish you [...]
Posted by Deb in Food on November 18th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
My brother Carl sent me the URL of Theocracy Watch. I guess being informed is our best defense… Still it makes me feel pretty scared in a tummy-twisting kind of way.
Posted by Deana in Politics on November 13th, 2004 | Comments Off
The folks over at the “Mars Homestead Project”:http://www.marshome.org/ are collecting recipes to compile a “Mars cookbook”:http://www.marshome.org/about/cookbook.html. Know any good ones? I’m not sure how one would test low-pressure and low-gravity baking on Earth, but there are probably some creative ways to get around that. 3-Bean “Spirit”:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/ Chili, anyone?
Posted by Chris in Space on November 12th, 2004 | 3 Comments »
New Scientist has a beautiful “interview with Benoit Mandelbrot”:http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp, who discovered the Mandelbrot set and brought fractals to the masses. It’s refreshing to see someone with such history and brilliance at the same time. Mandelbrot is 80 years old, yet he’s still pursuing revolutionary branches of mathematics.
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Posted by Chris in Science on November 12th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
The Columbia Journalism Review has a thought-provoking “article on media coverage of science”:http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/6/mooney-science.asp, specifically the role of “balance” in determining the journalistic merit of a science article. This has been on my mind lately, since public perception of scientific topics like climate change, medicine, and evolution is so crucial to making sound [...]
Posted by Chris in Science on November 11th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Hey kids, I’m not sure I’m up to this idea of embracing the red states. I’m usually all for that kind of thing, but it gets difficult when they don’t want to be friendly. (Josh Marshall “explains my reluctance more eloquently”:http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_11_07.php#003956A than I could.) A case in point is this recent [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on November 10th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
It seems that Leonardo Da Vinci hasn’t ceased to astound. This month’s Wired has an article about a three-wheeled cart designed by Leonardo that may actually be a “physically programmable robot”:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html. As Keanu would say, “_Whoa._”
Posted by Chris in Technology on November 9th, 2004 | 1 Comment »
OK, OK, I’ll write something about the election. I was just giving it a chance to… cool off or something.
The bad news: four more years of Bush. No link for that, because everyone knows it already. The good news: four more years of “Fafblog”:http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2004_10_31_fafblog_archive.html#109977682378623607, and that almost makes it worthwhile. OK, [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on November 8th, 2004 | 4 Comments »
Alright, people, are any of y’all going to post with something helpful? I am feeling totally depressed. I’m trying not to. I console myself with “we lived through Reagan and the first Bush, we can live through this.” But I alternate with, “so how do you know when the water is [...]
Posted by Deb in Politics on November 3rd, 2004 | 4 Comments »
From a post on “Slashdot”:http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=128064&cid=10700179 today:
_*Your friends are watching you*_
_All around the world, we’re watching you today. We love America, we want you to lead and inspire and show us what democracy and freedom and technology can do. But right now we’re feeling scared, confused, and angry about what your President has lead you to [...]
Posted by Chris in Politics on November 2nd, 2004 | 1 Comment »
