February 2012
#175 A Trip to Earth
awfuldrawings:
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (source: npr)
WatchA Bear’s Eye View: A Day in the Life of a Bear (by ADF&G)
Dangers of Fracking →
DINNER IN NY – Miho Aikawa Photography →
Science and the meaning of life →
This is what I’m talking about every day.
January 2012
Mounting Tires with Fire in Kenya →
When I do fieldwork in Kenya we have to travel to town about twice a week to get our tires fixed. This is because A)they have crappy tires in Kenya, and B)we beat the crap out of the ones we have driving where there are no roads. We keep 2 spares for each vehicle.
When we do go to town to get the tired fixed, we always go to one place.
Partly this is because it’s the only place in town.
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a...”
– ~ Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via conflictingheart)
“The scientific method makes one assumption, and one assumption only: the...”
– Is science faith-based? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
What do you need to keep? →
This is a problem I continually have.
It stalls me from “Getting Things Done”…
This is something I need to figure out how to deal with…
Dear Student: I Don't Lie Awake At Night Thinking... →
Going to be using that first point a lot…
Storm of Swords
“Remember Old Nan’s stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.”
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“Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she’d told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to...
History of Medical Discoveries →
Very cool interface!
mazesandmonsters →
This is awesome and sad at the same time.
And if you don’t know what they’re talking about, go find a copy of this…
Oh, Bosom Buddies era Tom Hanks, what were you thinking…
Please, oh please...
I haven’t been on much, because of holiday travel, and now at a conference (the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology - gave my talk on bird bones today), but I have to take a moment to say this:
Please let Santorum get the GOP nomination… This would be a gift beyond measure for Obama and the rest of us on the left…
December 2011
The Polyglot Paleontologist: Browse or Search the... →
WatchWhenever I see videos like this I’m reminded about why I voted for him, and what a good guy he is…
“More specifically, you have to know how big the Medicare deficit is and how fast...”
– Can We Afford Medicare?
Sorry for the wonkiness of this, but I love me some Baseline Scenario.
