I really have nothing to add here. The storyline is complete. Except I don’t see why Barbie’s expectations are unrealistic, given her great age and many capabilities — doctor Barbie, babysitter Barbie, pilot Barbie, yoga teacher Barbie, princess Barbie. And why not, though the mind boggles somewhat, a Girl Bilbo Barbie? She’s almost a sort […]
July 14 – 18, 2014 First we domesticated our pets, says guest David Grimm, and then over a long, long period of time, they civilized us. For which, thank goodness. Christie had a friend who was dying. In the meantime, how should he stay alive? Nice answer: by inviting friends over for a Colorado summer […]
Splendid, isn’t it. It’s UGC 8335 — one name, so once it was apparently mistaken for one thing though obviously it’s two. They’re spiral galaxies in the process of running into and through each other. This is a photograph by the Hubble Space Telescope; the galaxies are really there; this is real. You could think […]
Oh this is just purely awful in so many ways. Let me count them. Its humor is dumb & puns are always in the very worst taste. It’s bloody & I hate that. It’s not only clever, worse, it’s close to addictive. The mouseover apologizes, says this is the best he could do on short […]
[NOW WITH NEW VISUALIZATION: see below] Planets around other stars, exoplanets, have given me a long-running case of boredom – how long can you sustain OMG LOOKIT THAT PLANET HAS TWO SUNS? not long. I keep writing about them anyway. I do it because 1) sometimes somebody pays me to; and 2) the planets may […]
I never watched mad scientist movies, except maybe Dr. Strangelove, and I don’t have a clue what biologists do. But Abstruse Goose here just seems to be describing real life. Sad. Not very. Much sadder: our AG hasn’t been seen or heard from in a month of Sundays. Has he retreated from this world? ______ […]
June 23 – 27, 2014 Guest Christine Grillo wonders whether, once climate change hits, California will get tired of sending Baltimore avocadoes. Turns out the last Baltimore winter killed her fig tree. “Stunata,” her uncle says. Science writers had a meeting about actually Doing Something about this eternal gender bias crap. Christie reports, and I […]
When I can’t sleep, my brain thinks it’s fun to enumerate all the things I’m afraid might happen. I’ve taken to thinking about the derivations from the same Latin root — application, complication, explication, implication, replication — but sometimes get hung up on not knowing what “plicare” means. I do think the Yorks and the […]
