San Diego
Over the past two days, Don and I have been traveling around the San Diego area (mostly just downtown S.D.). We got here on Saturday, and we saw Bad Religion at the House of Blues that night and last...
View ArticleFrom South Dakota…
A real update will follow tomorrow, I promise, and replace this one. You’ll get pictures and science and maybe even some enthusiasm. Tonight I’m poised to actually get a few hours of sleep, which to me...
View ArticleAn adventure to the great outdoors.
If the trend of the last few weeks continues, this weekend will be here before I know it. I’m looking forward to it especially, because for the first time this year I’ll be going camping! My brother,...
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Phoenix lands undamaged on Mars!
I’m a bit disappointed in myself for not posting anything on this earlier. Most of you already know by now that on Sunday, NASA’s Phoenix probe successfully performed a rocket-assisted landing on Mars’...
View ArticleThe Perseid Meteor Shower
The Perseid meteor shower is near its maximum right now, and stargazers with a good view of the night sky and low light pollution may see meteors as frequently as once per minute! Really, the maximum...
View ArticleLive in Reno, Nevada
I found myself in a hotel bed in Reno this morning, only slightly hung over, and a mere $50 in the red. That included $20 dropped on black for one spin of the roulette wheel – it landed on red. Today...
View ArticleAs the world burns…
For the moment, I’m sitting next to Celeste on a dust-covered couch – one of many in this covered pavilion at the center of Black Rock City, Nevada. Lots of whimsy, nonsense, dust storms, and the...
View ArticleOkefenokee dokey
The internet bandwidth at my hotel here in Georgia is having its own little recession. So, I don’t really have the patience to research and write a good entry tonight. I’m in Waycross for work...
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Back from Canada, soon Back to School
This fall, I’m going back to school. I’d been weighing options for graduate school and finally determined that my best prospect for getting into a good ethology/zoology PhD program would be to get a...
View ArticlePerseid Party, or Death From The Skies!
IMPORTANT: Even if you can’t go with me tomorrow, please read this article about the Perseid Meteor Shower, and try to find the most promising way to see them near where you are. And if you happen to...
View Article150 Years of On The Origin of Species
150 years ago today, on November 24, 1959, the most important book in the history of biology was published. Charles Darwin’s On The Origin of Species was, and still is, the foundation upon which all...
View ArticleBetter post something… I’m wasting my best domain name!
Ohhh riiiight…. I have a blog. No, I didn’t forget about it – but one might wonder why I haven’t posted anything new since last November. Well, let me just make this post into a few tidbits about...
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