I was going to post this article about the origins of the domestic cat from the New York Times and say something like, “holy crap, what a badass article about the origins of cats wow isn’t that shit fascinating,” but I realized it’s not really that amazing of an article. Sure it talks a lot [...]
peelin’ back caps
Today I had the opportunity to observe a minor surgery at one of the labs at which I’ve been volunteering. Unfortunately, I don’t have pictures of the process that I took myself, as I didn’t bring my camera to the lab today, but I probably wouldn’t have been able to get very good pictures because [...]
project success!
while many projects linger in limbo, it feels nice to start and finish a project in a weekend. i want to move my shit up to washington later on. i need a bike trailer. plans are available for a very kind bamboo trailer from Carry Freedom.
i put an ad on craigslist looking [...]
The Turning of the Tide
Tide turned a lot time ago, really.
But this headline is still enough to turn heads and look wistfully at remaining open space outside of Salem town:
Mayday 23: World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural
Hot damn, what a busy time to be alive. We got to see three zeros line up in a calendar year [...]
File this under ‘b’ for Brain Disorders
Last night I experienced what is apparently known as a “scintillating scotoma.” I was sitting in my kitchen reading when I began to notice that I was having trouble seeing through my left eye. I ignored it for as long as possible, thinking it would probably go away, but it didn’t. At least not within [...]
whatever new blogger. WHATEVER.
So, this is a picture of the feet of the tiniest premature baby ever born. She/it was born like a year early or something. I don’t know. I really just wanted to know if anyone else thought those little feet looked like a delicious fruit candy.
Well?
frack me
recently i learned of an advent in the field of medical and biological research: the artificial immune system. this is, essentially, an in vitro simulation of the human immune system. the process begins by growing an artificial epithelium, using huvec cells (human umbilical vein endothelial cells) over a collagen matrix. (picture a honeycomb with each [...]
Micro-Cast: Is this a laser?
Sometimes fiction is more reasonable than fact, and sometimes facts sound like pure fiction. Here are two examples.
ISSUE: Commodification of lifeBatman: The Animated Series – The Laughing Fish. The scenario is such: The Joker just loaded all the waterways in and around Gotham (a port town) with a toxin, affecting only fish. [...]
Sinister man, Have at thee!
Long time, no css. That was a severe infringement on Jesse’s amazing punnitry, so all credit do to Jesseroo.
I just watched a good chunk of Hook with lil’ Justice-
-and very embarrassingly teared up a lot when Peter learns to fly, play basketball, and the real tear jerker, to crow. The movie really falls [...]
Semi-Regular Chiroptera Blogging
I know I promised to bombard you with pictures from my trip to Mexico, and I know that I actually haven’t been posting much of anything since I got back, but I hereby promise to post pictures of at least two of the species of bat that I worked with (see, if I lower your [...]