Archive for 2009
Naughty Monkey on a Budget
Dr. Isis frequently drools over recommends Naughty Monkey shoes, and I don’t deny that they are the sassiest shoes ever, but they are usually between $70 and $90. That’s how much I’d make if I worked all day on Saturday. I’m not saying they aren’t worth it, but sometimes groceries and the electric bill and […]
Berry Go Round #14
Welcome to the 14th Berry Go Round! Before we get started, I recommend reading last month’s carnival hosted over at Watching the World Wake Up. At Midoria you can learn all about kasumisou flowers (also known as baby’s breath). Agro Rachmatullah’s interest in these flowers was sparked when the TV character Kasumi received a kasumisou […]
Pessimism
We’ve made a great big overpopulated mess of our planet and sometimes I feel like we aren’t going to take effective action before things really fall apart. I don’t really think I’m pessimistic, because I certainly keep trying. Perhaps this is stupid. May Kasahara in Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle says this: I’m only […]
Berry Go Round delay
I was planning on having the 14th Berry Go Round up today, but it was eaten by wordpress. I should have it cobbled back together by tomorrow morning, so check back soon!
Science rocks my socks
I’ve been working madly to get some data together to present at a conference in a few months and last night I wrote the last line of code, plotted the data, and just sat there for a minute. Sometimes (and by sometimes I mean all the time) science is surprising. Something I thought was sort […]
The power of stories
Nothing in science – nothing in life, for that matter – makes sense without theory. It is our nature to put all knowledge into context in order to tell a story, and to re-create the world by this means. From E.O Wilson’s Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Weekly Top 5
So I’m still kind of terrified of this week and dreading the coming sleep deprivation. But I’m feeling pretty optimistic for a few reasons: I’m really struggling with some of my scholarship essays, but I have amazing and brilliant friends who are helping to shape them into something good. I have several pounds of coconut […]