Archive for 2010
What I’ve Been Listening To
Amazon.com Widgets
What I’ve Noticed
Women in Afghanistan are setting themselves on fire in astonishing numbers. Getting child marriage banned must be higher on our list of priorities. Think you’re not going to get into grad school this year? Toaster Sunshine has some words of wisdom for you. A review of acupuncture’s effect on heart rate variability. Conclusion: bullshit. On comparing Obama […]
Pretty Things
Berry Go Round reminder
The next edition of Berry Go Round will be up here next week. I can accept submissions through the end of the day Saturday if you haven’t sent me your botanically inclined posts yet.
A Poem
Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and […]
Biofuels
I think biofuels are a good idea and something that could help us a great deal in the future. But right now, I think we’re doing it wrong. For example, corn ethanol subsidies are discouraging better biofuel alternatives at very high cost to taxpayers. It’s also making food more expensive, which is devastating in poorer […]
Atrazine
Atrazine is a common herbicide that’s contaminated a great deal of our water. In frogs, teeny tiny amounts of this stuff have very dramatic effects – males having babies dramatic. (via NRDC Switchboard) You’ve got to wonder what sort of effects this has on humans.