The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
by Natalie Angier
Houghton Mifflin
Kings pour coffee on fairy god-sisters (mnemonic device for remembering the taxonomic system)
Kingdom - Animalia: We belong in the animal kingdom.
Phylum - chordata, subphylum - Vertabrata: We are vertebrates like 50,000 other animals in the animal kingdom along with reptiles, [...]
Christmas is finally over. I’m slowly coming back to full consciousness.
At my real job Christmas time is a time of twelve hour days where you are required to work even harder during those long hours. There isn’t much time for anything thing like socializing or sleep.
Sometime after Thanksgiving I find that I go [...]
The Midwest is now recovering from the ice storm that hit Sunday and Monday. It is but a brief respite until the 6 to 7 inches of snow that we are expecting over the weekend.
The storm left thousands upon thousand of people without electricity on freezing cold nights for several days. There have [...]
Well, it’s happened again. Another thumb sucking crybaby has gone and shot a bunch of people. All indications point to this shooter being every bit as much of a big pussy as the Columbine shooters and the day trader guy.
Apparently, in his “manifesto” / suicide note, he said he is “going [...]