August 17 – 21, 2015 It was a week of people changing their minds. Except for Cameron’s kids, they didn’t budge. Magical thinking works, says guest Heather Abel. For decades, she was able to stop tsunamis before they hit her. Now, though, the grand and calming ocean stops them for her. Even out in the […]
I may have stolen my neighbor’s tiny cherry tomatoes right off the vine. They were so glowingly red, so warm, how could I help myself? Maybe “stolen” is a little harsh because I didn’t have to go onto her property to get the tomatoes, we share-crop them in pots in my back driveway. And after […]
July 27 – 31, 2015 Christie’s dog continues to live life as stupidly as possible, this time involving a skunk; and Christie solves the problem with the power of science. This post is a public service. Guest Chris Arnade’s pond is drying up; he saves the life of a one-eyed spring peeper but those tadpoles […]
One sympathizes. Being a writer, mad or not, isn’t as much fun as in the movies either. It’s just one word after another, the right words in the right order in sentences; and one sentence after another, the right sentences in the right order in paragraphs; and one paragraph after another, the right paragraphs in […]
Caveat: I’m possibly having something like a Cassie-Willyard-Hubble-Moment here – in this case, I learn something new, don’t quite understand it but get all excited about it, and it’s, you know, wrong. Never mind because I’m all excited anyway because science has found a new way of being confident that what you know is right. […]
June 22 – 26, 2015 Wouldn’t you like to know how to work for clicks and not cash? Guest Bryn Nelson collects the wisdom of the online media in list form, and you absolutely won’t believe #73. Michelle profiles/remembers/learns from the biologist Rafe Sagarin, who died too young and who had the choice of moving […]
June 8 – 12, 2015 Cameron got so discouraged about California’s annual June Gloom that she went back and revisited an old one; at least she has something to talk to the neighbors about. You know those maps on which you place little markers that show where you’ve been? Helen says the markers should really […]
I haven’t got much on my mind today that I want to think about so I distract myself with pictures. This one, as science pictures often do, conflates beauty and truth and let me repeat, beauty. It’s a result of letting the Hubble Space Telescope take repeated pictures of a single cluster of galaxies. Clusters […]
