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Archive for April, 2008

Science of Soup

With many of the explainers (and the two leaders of the pack) ailing with flu-like symptoms, colds, sniffles, shakes, stuffiness, and sultry voice, I thought I would post a few links all about chicken soup including some of my favorite recipes.

Matzo Ball Soup from Smitten Kitchen

Get Well Soon Soup from Chef [...]

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Well it’s been about a month since the first post about the garden in my backyard. Things are going super awesome and its so fun to see how much growth can happen in just one month. A few weeks ago we saw white flowers on the pea plants. They seemed a little closed up but [...]

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Biobigotry Warning

What emotions do these photos conjure up? Does one connote a noble symbol of freedom and the other a urban nuisance? Where do these ideas come from?
Here’s a neat article that I read today in the NY Times science Tuesday by one of my favorite science writers, Natalie Angier, about the problems with “biobigotry” (hope [...]

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Kristin the Gelfling

The other day, out of the blue, Carolyn said to me: “I know who Kristin reminds me of! The blond female Gelfling from The Dark Crystal!”. I was skeptical until I google-imaged (I sort of can’t believe I just used that as a verb…) Kira the Gelfling. You be the judge:

Kira the Gelfling on the [...]

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I just checked out a book in the library called The Best American Science Writing 2006. Now I can be totally caught up with all the developments that happened in science two years ago. Woo-hoo! But funny enough in the first article called “Almost Before We Spoke, We Swore” Natalie Angier writes about the exhibit [...]

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So Amisha sent out the link about the squid that have infiltrated the bay. Here’s the link.
Giant, hippie-hating, cannibalistic squids attack SF Bay Area
The unintentional comedy factor for this video is pretty high even though it’s produced by QUEST a PBS station in San Francisco. In the beginning they totally try to make it seem [...]

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April Fool’s

So I’ve been doing some outside research on the cow’s eye demonstration and it turns out that some of the information that we give is just not correct. Apparently a few other museums and schools do the dissection but have passed on many false ideas. An article that I stumbled across debunked some of the [...]

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