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Gaseous Nobility
Every day I receive an e-mail from a site called delancyplace.com. Each e-mail contains a short excerpt from a book, mostly books concerning science or history. They are well-chosen excerpts and I...
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Carl Sauer On Agricultural Origins
Many years ago I used to get ideas for interesting books to read from the Whole Earth Catalog, and later from Coevolution Quarterly. Many of the books reviewed I would never have heard about without...
View ArticleThe Perfume Of The Earth
One of my favorite scientifically-oriented blogs is Small Things Considered. Veteran microbiologist Moselio Schaecter and fellow-writer Merry Youle are the hosts of the blog. Some of the material is...
View ArticleDetroit Science Center Lip Dub
This is a touching celebratory video. Take any team of people working on a project together and it is likely a few will be able to do the dance moves, etc., and lip-sync pop music effectively. Could...
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Paleomicrobiology
Now there’s a new word for you! (or at least for me…) I’d never encountered it until I read a fascinating article at one of my favorite blogs, Small Things Considered. The word means the study of...
View ArticleA Triumph Of Human Ingenuity
I’m a child of the 1960s. In 1961 my mother called the school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where I was in the second grade. “Would it it be okay if Larry stayed home from school today? He really wants to...
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Darwin’s Library
I’m pretty fond of Charles Darwin and his works. As well as being a ground-breaking scientific theorist he was also an eloquent writer — (and don’t give me any of that “Evolution is just a theory!”...
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