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Why do I blog thee? Let me count the ways…
So who needs a psychiatrist: For nearly half of 600 bloggers surveyed, blogging is a form of therapy, America Online said Friday, referring to research conducted by Digital Marketing Services….About 31 percent of bloggers said that, in times of high anxiety, instead of seeking any counseling, they either write in their blogs or read blogs …
The (re)turn of the screw
A man named Kenneth LeVey has re-invented the screw…and probably given me next week’s science column! (Via Transterrestrial Musings.) It’s a perfect example of “build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Everyone knew screws weren’t perfect, but they were so cheap and ubiquitous that no one ever got …
The street where we live
2005_09_13 036 Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. Here’s the view down the sidewalk in front of our condominium complex, on a glorious late-summer/early-fall (the leaves are turning, but it’s not officially autumn yet) day in Regina.
The world’s smallest mobile robot
Researchers at Dartmouth University have created the world’s smallest untethered, controllable robot: about as wide as a strand of hair, and half the length of, say, a period in 12-point Times New Roman. Or, to put it another way, about 200 of them could fit in line across a plaine M&M–even more across a peanut …
Unchanging rooftops
rooftops Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. This photo tickles me because there is nothing in it that could not have been seen in just this way 75 years ago. That’s the Hotel Saskatchewan in the background and Blessed Sacrament Church in the foreground; both bits of old Regina still preserved in new Regina.
Upon reflection…
reflections Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. Often when I activate my photographer’s eye, I see abstract patterns that capture my fancy–like this one, a reflection of the windows of one office building in the windows of another.
Contrasts
oldnew Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. I like the contrast between old and new in this photo from downtown Regina.
Morning colours
flowerbed Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. This is a flower bed in Central Park. (No, not that Central Park–this one just across the street from our condo complex in Regina.) I’ve walked by it for weeks now meaning to take a picture or two; this morning, I finally got around to it.
Bee mine
berrybee Originally uploaded by Edward Willett. I took a walk around Wascana Lake this morning taking some “artistic photos,” as I rather egotistically like to call them. One was of a mountain ash (I think) with lots of red berries on display. I took a close-up of the berries–and only discovered when I looked at …
Surgical secrets of the ancients
We in the 21st century have a deplorable tendency at times to look down on those who lived in centuries preceding ours as primitive, ignorant people. No, I’m not talking about those poor benighted souls of the late, unlamented 20th century (especially since I was one of them). I’m thinking of a bit further back—say, …
Comet ‘Armageddon’ less likely than previously thought
Well, this is good news! An astronomer has calculated that there are seven times fewer comets in our solar system than previously thought, and thus the chances of us being wiped out by a collision with a “continent-busting” comet are also less than previously thought; such a thing probably only happens once every 150 million …
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