My daughter Alice, at rehearsal Saturday morning on stage at the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts (Conexus Arts Centre) in the final rehearsal for her apperance that night with her pre-ballet class from the Conservatory of Performing Arts. They danced the sugarplum fairy dance from The Nutcracker at the Regina Symphony Orchestra’s annual Christmas concert. …
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Yeah, but cleaning the print heads is murder
What exotic device do you need to cause a single population of adult stem cells to form a variety of types of tissues? What else? An ink-jet printer.
Photo of the Day: Backstage
Specifically, backstage at what is officially known as the Conexus Arts Centre, but most of us around here refuse to call anything other than the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts. (Conexus is a credit union, if you’re not from around here.) My darling daughter Alice appeared on stage tonight as one of the five-year-old ballerinas …
Photo of the Day: Snow Benches
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Is this a meme I see before me?
I picked this up from Andrew Wheeler at The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.: What to do: post the first sentence of the first post from each calendar month of this year, with links. So here is the year that was, in Hassenpfefferland (I took the liberty of including the post title, since sometimes …
Restore the prairie…
…to something like its natural state, and reap a benefit: turns out the best feed material for creating ethanol isn’t monoculture crops like wheat or corn, but mixtures of native prairie grasses and other flowering plants. Easier to grow, too, obviously.
"The much easier demands of merely a good yarn"
In a letter to Quill & Quire, Wayne Jones, currently head of Central Technical Services at Queen’s University Library in Kingston, Ontario, writes, in part: There are piles of historical fiction in Canada and elsewhere not because the national character as a whole is longing for explanations of its present through its past, but because …
Scientists watch black hole munch star
Did anyone besides me see this story about scientists catching a black hole in the act of munching a star and think of “The Beast Shall Rise from the Pit,” the two-part Dr. Who episode (the first half of which just aired in Canada on Monday night)? Speaking of which, I just learned from The …
Organic chicken?
No, thanks. Turns out, …organic poultry is actually less nutritious, contains more fat and tastes worse than its mass-produced equivalent, research has shown. That’s going to make some people squawk.
Building a better Christmas with technology
The march of science and technology can be breathtaking, can’t it? Just consider these recent developments in the all-important field of Christmas-related…um, stuff. First, there’s the Lightset Repair Gun. If you have a string of mini-lights that isn’t working, it’s probably because of faulty shunts. Designed to prevent a whole string of lights wired in …
A moon base by 2024?
On July 20 of that year, I will turn 65 years old. On my 10th birthday, Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Fifty-five years between one and the other. Am I supposed to be impressed by this?
Nothing about Hassenpfeffer, alas, but…
…here’s a local news story about Saskatchewan bloggers. (Via small dead animals.)
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