Archive for 2009
Protected: Disappointment
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Weekly Top 5 (or not)
No weekly top 5 again this week, but I promise you’ll get one next week. Until then, another of my favorite songs to tide you over:
What I’ve noticed
By being so unbelievably and unnecessarily cruel, Isreal has finally lost the moral high ground in the eyes of the world. (en)Gender has a great post up on Brazil and the current state of our country. Xenophobia makes me sick. The next part of “An Evil God,” my current favorite blog series, is up at […]
All together now
From Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Today the world no longer faces just the circumscribed risk of an Easter Island society or Maya homeland collapsing in isolation, without affecting the rest of the world. Instead, societies today are so interconnected that the risk we face is of a worldwide decline. […]
Stinkin’ Extinction
It’s time for your extinct plant of the week! This week is a little less depressing than the last few. Clermontia peleana are flowering trees in the bellflower family. Many Clermontias have beautiful, showy flowers frequented by birds. Clermontia peleana isn’t actually completely extinct, though it is in pretty serious trouble. While one of the […]
Tree cookies
I want to know how different soil types affect pinyon pine growth during drought and if there’s a difference in growth between trees that die in the drought and those that have survived so far. So I needed some cookies. We had no idea that there would be two feet of snow on the ground […]
Migraine Log – Week 6
I’ve now been taking Petadolex for 5 weeks. I’ve been keeping track of my migraines and my main trigger (bad weather). Last week I graphed the migraine data collected so far and received a few ideas for a better graph in the comments. Here’s the updated data presented a bit differently than last week’s: In […]