I discovered a (partial) tape of a Harding University A Cappella Chorus concert from February 1, 1978, among my parents’ tapes while I was down at my Mom’s house a couple of weeks ago. Part of the tape got accidentally recorded over–probably just a couple of songs–but I’ve turned the rest of the numbers, nine …
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Lots of new posts over on the wine blog…
Lots of new posts over on the Willetts on Wine wine blog. Check it out!
More good news about grapes
University of Illinois scientists have discovered how components in grapes (and probably red wine!) work together to inhibit an enzyme crucial to the proliferation of cancer cells.
Cat-choo!
Do pets make you sneeze? Well, you’re not alone: an estimated ten percent of the population is allergic to animals. And the animal responsible for the majority of those allergies is Felis domesticus–your basic household cat. Being the cat person that I am, this strikes me as a terrible, terrible, thing, worthy of serious research. …
A cure for cat allergies?
Do pets make you sneeze? Well, you’re not alone: an estimated ten percent of the population is allergic to animals. And the animal responsible for the majority of those allergies is Felis domesticus–your basic household cat. Being the cat person that I am, this strikes me as a terrible, terrible, thing, worthy of serious research. …
Do you suffer from ADT?
According to a psychiatrist who’s an expert in attention deficit disorder, a related disorder he calls attention deficit trait is reaching epidemic proportions in our fast-paced world, where the constant data input from computers, cell phones and more is diluting our mental powers and wrecking our ability to think deeply and be creative. I’d write …
Hugo and Campbell nominees announced
The Hugo and Campbell Awards Nominations have been announced. Oddly enough, I am not on the list.
Farewell to newspapers?
Michael S. Malone says newspapers are dead–they just haven’t realized it yet. I hate to say it, as an old newspaper hand, but I think he’s right, at least in the traditional form. I get almost all of my international news online now, and many days I barely skim the two newspapers I get–papers I …
Conserving a revolutionary bridge
Literally a revolutionary bridge in this case–i.e., not a bridge that revolutionized engineering, or anything like that, but a bridge that was built by continental soldiers during the American Revolution. I’d not heard of it before. Sometimes I wish I wrote a history column instead of a science column–my favorite part of researching many of …
Here comes Doctor Who…
Here’s the official CBC Web site for the new Doctor Who series, premiering in North America on Tuesday, April 5, at 8 p.m. on CBC TV. I’m pumped!
Acronym of the day
Nanoscale polymer beads, first developed as sensors to explore and monitor cellular processes, now hold promise for diagnosing and treating cancer. Excellent news, bravo, etc. But that’s not the main reason I’m blogging about it. I was just taken with the acronym they come up with for these little beads: PEBBLEs. Catchy, eh? It stands …
100 Years of Illustration
Here’s a gorgeous site dedicated to a century of American illustration. Beautiful! I found it through Althouse.
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