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Science & Nature
inkspector posts: Ice Storm Survivor
Yes, I am. I bet you missed me!I had to put the post at Penny Lane because I could not upload a picture into my tblog account.Ice Storm Account and picture. (opens in a new window) | December 15, 6:56 pm | mitchdolittle posts: wisdom
wisdomthe child has wisdom of a sort,the adult another,the bridge that connects,faith. | December 15, 4:02 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: Managing Mayhem
What are you doing to foster beauty in the world? What could our lives be like if each of us focused on beautiful ideas, memories and objects, and quit obsessing about mayhem and the economy?Here, the... | December 14, 9:29 am | thoolou posts: Truth, Economics, and Politics
By Paul Chesser on 12.12.08 @ 6:07AMSomeone please tell me it's about to end. That it's O-V-A-H in New England. That's it's D-U-N in Rio Linda. That it's fini in France and finito in Italy. I've... | December 12, 7:33 am | kinghavoc posts: What is a HD Digital Radio?
High definition radio is a new technology that allows us to tune into digital radio absolutely free. Currently there are tens of thousands of digital radio stations broadcasting in every major city... | December 11, 10:40 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: Take time to smell the flowers
It's easy to get wrapped up (no pun intended) in all the parties and pressures of the winter holiday season. Take a moment and find some eye candy for yourself-- head to your florists' for a few momen... | December 11, 5:52 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: The Color Institute and Christmas Trends
Every year, the Pantone Color Institute ( and other groups) come up with the color trends in everything-- home decor, fashion, even Christmas themes. So for those of you who pay attention to those peo... | December 10, 10:10 am | kaschard posts: hindsight
scientifically minded people expect rationality to win the day... but what they sometimes forget is the randomness of the evolutionary/adaptive processes that brought us these big brains. sometimes yo... | December 8, 6:02 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: The perfect Hostess gift
This party season, fresh flowers make the perfect hostess gift: they're easy for you to take with you, easy for the hostess to deal with at the party, and personalized for the recipient. So... | December 7, 10:06 am | alaskawildflowers posts: Greens for the season
One advantage of winter greens is that they last pretty much until you're sick of them. It's easy, if you do a little planning first, to use your greens for several weeks, and change the flowers ... | December 6, 4:46 pm | feedprices posts: Thailand: soybean tariff to be cut by 2%
Thailand’s import duties on soybean meal, a raw material for animal feed, are to be cut by half to 2% starting on January 1, 2008, according to Commerce Minister Chaiya Sasomsab. The annual soyb... | December 5, 5:14 pm | thoolou posts: The Greenies Are Coming! The Greenies Are Coming!
It's been 233 years since Paul Revere and William Dawes made their nighttime horseback ride to warn the American colonists that British redcoats were marching from Boston to Lexington and Con... | December 3, 7:15 am | alaskawildflowers posts: Those marvelous winter greens
Of course, I'm talking about evergreens-- Cedar, Pine, and Fir. Some people really love juniper, but I've found it's best for making gin. Juniper berries and needles have a very pungent odor that remi... | December 2, 3:53 pm | mitchdolittle posts: December mornings
December morning I love December mornings with its grey clouds, drizzle gently falling, the sleeping, yes dormant trees shutting down for winter’s onslaught, (referring my own mind to winter... | December 1, 8:57 am | kinghavoc posts: Hunting Technology
Man-kind has come along way in the development of hunting technology. Not long ago we were hunting with bows, arrows, and spears. Now hunter's carry equipment that can take game a mile away without ... | November 30, 3:32 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: Beauty is everywhere.
You just have to look for it. And the flower that you find attractive may not be someone else's favorite. Hydrangeas are one of my favorites, mostly because I remember them from my granny's house, and... | November 29, 7:41 am | mitchdolittle posts: Blue Heron
Blue HeronIn my walk on this Autumn day I saw a Blue Heron sitting,on a small island like a throne it seemed to restin the comforting sun. Then, it would get up and walkin a funnily elegant way ... | November 29, 5:50 am | kinghavoc posts: How Night Vision Works
Night vision utilizes two different techniques to produce clear images in the pitch black. The first technique is image enhancement. Image enhancement works by collecting as much light as possible, e... | November 26, 7:26 pm | alaskawildflowers posts: Stress Release
You can certainly relieve stress by taking flowers home with you-- but you can also help yourself feel better by giving flowers to other people-- it's kinda like the advice the gurus give about helpin... | November 26, 10:02 am | pretensions posts: Cold Fusion Talk - 24th November, 2008, Singapore Science Centre
p>On Monday, Pretensions attended a talk by research professor David J Nagel from George Washington University in the States. It was about the future of Cold Fusion or Low Energy Nuclear Reactions as ... | November 26, 6:43 am | kinghavoc posts: How Radar Guns Work
Radar guns work by sending radio waves of a specific frequency. The radio waves then bounce off of the vehicle or object then return to the receiver called the receiving station. To measure how fast t... | November 25, 12:53 pm | namm posts: Aston Martin-DB9 Volante
| November 21, 4:02 am | alaskawildflowers posts: Appreciation
I have a friend who used to tell me, "whatever else is going on, say to yourself, 'life is good, business is terrific, people are wonderful, I have good chi!'" The truth is, I have about as ... | November 19, 3:51 pm | kinghavoc posts: Stem Cell Technology
Stem cell research is an exciting new field of study that try's to understand how a healthy cell can replace a damaged or dead cell in the body. This research has caused breakthrough's in cell based ... | November 18, 7:59 pm | thoolou posts: Sorcerer's Apprentice Caught With Pants Down
A particularly egregious and obvious error seems to have finally outed Al Gore's Merlin, NASA's Dr. James Hansen:... [a] surreal scientific blunder last week raised a huge question mark about the... | November 17, 7:46 am |
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