In the year 2006 I resolve to: Explore the inner workings of my one point. Get your resolution here I’m taking the Chris route in not setting resolutions. I’ll call them I’ll tries instead. Last spring I started going to sangha on Sundays, but then there was a series of unfortunate events and I stopped
I have nothing to blog about. NOTHING! I have very little to do at work until tomorrow when I have time on the microscope, but even then I only have about half the samples I had planned to look at. I’ve started a new book that’s not very good. There are things that need to
The race to end our dependence on fossil fuels is on. With the cost of heating our homes and driving our cars at an all time high, I think people are finally ready for the change. But how close are we? Scientists have been arguing for a long time that hydrogen would make an excellent
Last week all the local news channels did some kind of story about the whole Christmas vs. Holiday debate. Fox news even used The Death of Christmas for a headline. I hate to tell these people this, but Christmas died a long time ago. One guy was complaining because his town Christmas parade was now
I finished my first knitting project today! Of course, last week it was butt-ass cold here, but now that I finally finished my scarf it’s like sixty degrees outside. Go figure. I chose yellow to match my new Navy pea coat. I had been looking for a pea coat for forever, but I could never
Researchers led by Gabor Forgacs, University of Missouri-Columbia biological physics professor, have engineered bio-ink and bio-paper that would allow us to print out new organs. Yes, I said print. They use a special 3-D printer that has two positive displacement devices. One contains a cartridge made of a micropipette filled with tiny spheres of bio-ink
Sounds like something from a bad science fiction movie on the SciFi channel. The parasitic hairworm, Spinochordodes tellini, develops inside grasshoppers or crickets, but is an aquatic worm in its adult stage. How to get from the grasshopper gut to body water, you ask? Brainwash the grasshopper into committing suicide. The hairworm produces proteins that
