Starting today*, you’re going to be hearing me talk about SpaceUp a lot. You can go over to the SpaceUp site to see what it’s all about, but here, among friends, I wanted to talk about me. Erm, I mean, what it means to me.
It started as one of those “why isn’t anyone doing this?” [...]
Posted by Chris in Uncategorized on December 1st, 2009 | No Comments »
The Xerces Society has a new website. Yay, bugs!
I mean, seriously, just because they lack endoskeletons and have more appendages than you do is no reason to get all squeamish.
Here, we’ll start you off slowly with some really, really important bugs: native honeybees and bumble bees (one of my favorites). And they’ve got [...]
Posted by Deb in Agriculture, Animals, Environment, Science, That which is awesome, Uncategorized on January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
This is for Deb, Chris and Ben… Enjoy!
(for some reason the linky doesn’t seem to work, so here’s the address just in case: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OrLSbDbEJno)
Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on December 9th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
And why not? Such illustrious stars (ha!ha! stars!) of the music industry like Queen’s Brian May, take time off from their busy touring schedule to complete Ph.D.s in Astrophysics at our fine facilities at Imperial College London. We are the champions, indeed.
Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on July 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m hoping to give Global Spin a bit of a refresh over the next [mumble mumble time period], so don’t be alarmed if you see sudden changes or other odd behavior. For those who are interested in such things, I’ll be:
switching to a nicer site theme based on Peaceful Rush
upgrading to Wordpress 2.2 (with extra [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog, Uncategorized on May 16th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Another bit of insight into animal languages from this AP story:
Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language – chickadee. It’s not unusual for one animal to react to the alarm call of another, but nuthatches seem to go beyond that – interpreting the type of alarm and what sort of predator poses [...]
Posted by Chris in Animals, Language, Oddly Enough, Science, Uncategorized on April 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Posted by Deana in Uncategorized on March 27th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
SpaceX, which I’ve covered previously, successfully launched its Falcon 1 rocket yesterday. The launch wasn’t without incident — there was a problem with the second stage after launch, and the first launch attempt was aborted at the last second — but the results were deemed enough to justify launching commercial payloads later this year.
On the [...]
Posted by Chris in Space, Technology, Uncategorized on March 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
Okay, so a lot of the time I love Britain. It’s a me thing. But in this case, it’s specific. Agencies controlling food standards and safety have ordered baby milk (formula) manufacturers to stop putting claims like “next best thing to breast milk” on their packaging. They can’t say, “Helps support [...]
Posted by Karen in Uncategorized on March 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
Karen is too tired to post this article from the Seattle P-I:
Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced an initiative that would put a whole new twist on traditional unions between men and women: It would require heterosexual couples to have children within three years or else have their marriages annulled.
I can’t wait to see what [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, Law, Uncategorized on February 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
