Archive: Science category
From Kottke via 37signals, trap-jaw ants that use their jaws to fling themselves high into the air:
Pretty darn cool.
My brother-in-law told me about The Itch today at dinner, and holy smokes, that's fascinating. In a morbid sort of way. (Just wait till you get to the second page of the story.) I mean, seriously, wow. This is practically a horror movie in the ...
According to National Geographic (thanks to Sally for the link), "nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests."
Those women left a particular DNA legacy that ...
Alas, the Internet connection at our apartment was down when I got home late last night, so my daily posting stride has been tripped up. :P (Not that it really matters.)
And now for a bizarre bit of biology. Last night my roommate Jack told me about Dicrocoelium ...
Yesterday I was talking with my friend Hilary about a quote I found in Lewis Thomas's The Medusa and the Snail the other day, and I realized that it's actually a smashingly good blog post topic. And I need blog post topics, because I haven't been writing as much ...
Many of you may have heard of Einstein's famous quote: "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." Turns out it's actually ...
Ben: Hey, it's you again.
Plato: You did summon me here.
Ben: I did?
Plato: Sure. It's an easy way out when you don't know what you're going to write about. Just bring in some talking heads and let them do their thing.
Ben: I guess that's right. [Blushes.]
Plato: Now ...
I miss science. True, linguistics is a science of sorts, but I mean physics and chemistry and biology and math and all that. The hard sciences. Looking back, I think the last science class I took was Physical Science 100 my freshman year, almost six years ago. ...
Yesterday Meridian Magazine came out with an excellent article by Orson Scott Card that tears global warming to shreds. Everyone needs to read this. Everyone. Card really hits the nail on the head:
When Al Gore goes on and on about what we must do to save ...
Came across an interesting post on if:book about A Million Penguins, which is Penguin's attempt to write a novel collaboratively through a wiki.
So is the novel immune from being swept up into the fashion for collaborative activity? Well, this is what we are going to try and discover ...
