The distinctive smell you get from a pocketful of change held in your hand or a bunch of keys doesn’t come from the metal at all: it comes from you.
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Photo of the Day: The Web
More photos here. (Give up? This is a negative image of the center of the lighted dome inside the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.)
The first sentence I wrote today…
There are two sides to the legacy of Janis Joplin. I finished the bulk of the book today and am now doing clean-up work on it (adding subheads and breaking some stuff in sidebars, putting in the supplemental material–timeline, bibliography) etc. This evening was the official launch of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years …
So you won’t try an e-book reader…
…because you like to turn pages. Will this change your mind?
What’s real, and what’s pretend?
My five-year-old daughter just received her first visit from the Tooth Fairy. Soon, of course, she’ll be visited by Santa Claus. Being the scientifically minded parent that I am, I’m always providing my daughter with information about things like why it’s dark now when she gets up in the morning when it used to be …
The first (non-science column) sentence I wrote today…
On April 4, Janis performed in a reunion concert with Big Brother.3,792 words on the Janis Joplin bio today, and the end is in sight; I should be polishing it up tomorrow and submitting it Wednesday at the latest. I probably would have finished it today, except, of course, this was a science column day. …
Photo of the Day: Scottie, Beaming Up
A slipware Scottish terrier, from the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house series.” The only notation on the bottom is England 83. I don’t know anything else about it, but he’s a cute little feller, ain’t he? What’s that? You were expecting something about Star Trek instead of a picture of a happy dog …
Is this the face…
…of Jack the Ripper?
Cotton: it’s what’s for dinner
Or, at least, it could be soon: “The exciting finding is that we have been able to reduce gossypol – which is a very toxic compound – from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for consumption,” said Dr. Keerti Rathore, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station plant biotechnologist. “In terms of human nutrition, it has …
Heck, I do this all the time:
Not the getting-lost-in-the-woods-while-picking-mushrooms part, but the using-an-electronic-device’s-glowing-screen-as-a-flashlight part.
The first sentence I wrote Sunday…
The members of the band didn’t think Simon understood their music. Janis Joplinning, still… 5,137 words today. I’m sick of the 1960s.
The first sentence I wrote Saturday…
Janis wrote in her scrapbook, “For awhile it was Country Brother and the Holding Fish.” Number of words today: 3,520. I’m not sure how many are left to go.
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