I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, but I came to The Hobbit late in life. Like three years ago. I’d been hearing about it for years from Tolkien enthusiasts – my teen son prime among them – but it wasn’t enough to make me crack open that volume and care about toe hair until…
Marshmallows, Cats, and the Sea: Your 2015 Golden Goose Awards
This year, three projects were awarded the Golden Goose Award. These are awarded to federally funded basic research projects that have widespread impacts. The awards are made to underscore the need for funding for basic research at a level that is best supported by the federal government. What this means to us, as the people…
Why Not Record Your Children For Three Years To See How They Learn?
What can I say? Offbeat science sings to me. Penguins and their bubbles. Honey bees and their ills. These stories pique my interest and hold it. The same can be said for stories about language acquisition. I got hooked on that in high school when a classmate and I duplicated the experiments run by Chomsky…
A Happy Day for Honeybees
Finally. There’s some good news for the little guy. In this instance, the little guy happens to be the lowly honeybee, aka the pollinators that are essential to crops around the world. Pollinators that make it possible for us to have almonds in our cereal and melons at our cookouts. The die-off of honeybees has…
Who Knew Pluto Was So Gorgeous?
After nearly a decade, New Horizons has not only made its flyby of Pluto, it’s sent home photos! While you can count the time between a flash of lightning and the sound of thunder using the reliable “one alligator” method and be done before you get tired of standing by the window, the images from…
This Year’s Tour de France Tech Is Amazing, But Still Can’t Stop A Mammoth Crash
To make a good showing at the Tour de France you need more than strong legs and a healthy heart. You need the right gear. Just what constitute the right gear changes with advances in technology. There was a time when racing handlebars were the cutting edge. No more. And the drive to improve isn’t…
Countdown To The Innate Insanity Of The Tour de France
The Tour de France begins this Saturday, July 4, so that non-Americans can have something to care about on that day. It’s a race that will last for 23 days, cover 3500 km (2200 mi), and test the fortitude of every member of the 22 competing teams. This year the race starts in Utretcht, Netherlands.…
Why Aren’t You Listening To Your Fingernails?
Taking care of your fingernails helps to project a professional and polished image, no matter your gender. Turns out paying attention to your fingernails actually confers an additional benefit. Your fingernails can tell if you’re suffering from several different rather-not-go-there illnesses. So as a step in your assessment of your health, take a look at…
Take The Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Pollinators are definitely in need of our help. These little honeybees, bumble bees, some bats, humming birds — you get the idea — work hard to pollinate all of the crops that are not pollinated by the wind. This basically means they bring us melons, almonds, apples, cherries – anything that’s not a grain. In…
John Glenn: Evolution And Belief In God Not Mutually Exclusive
Anyone who has escaped Earth’s atmosphere and traveled into space has seen a side of things that I certainly have not. From the very first photo of Earth appearing as a blue marble – the photo which many say engendered the conservation movement – the astronauts returning from their missions have brought back with them not just…
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