Posts by sarcozona

Blogs I love

I know you don’t look at my blogroll, so I thought I’d point you in the direction of a few blogs I really enjoy. If you like plants, Seeds Aside is awesome (and has a great sense of humor). If you’re addicted to shoes, Manolo’s Shoe Blog points out the best. If you’re into art, […]

Citation managers

I have to read a lot of papers for work, and every once in awhile I write one of my own. Keeping track of all the papers and then citing them and building bibliographies can be pretty time consuming. Citation managers make the job a lot easier. I’ve been using RefWorks for the past year, […]

Weekly top 5

It’s been a few months, but the weekly top 5 is back.  I know you missed knowing what I listened to while studying the past few weeks… Interpol – Antics Bloc Party – Silent Alarm Plus and Minus – You Are Here Air – Moon Safari Zap Mama – Ancestry in Progress

Making my day

A beautiful girl in a beautiful skirt reading a calculus textbook like it was her favorite novel.

What I’ve noticed

Lots of interesting science this week: Here‘s an incredibly interesting experiment that shows how easily our brains can be fooled into disowning our own bodies. [via 3QD] Cows have a compass! In addition to killing birds, wind farms are killing bats.  Wind farm mortality is nothing compared to the damage this strange illness (likely related […]

Piano

When I left home for boarding school, I stopped playing the piano.  I picked it up again this summer with the encouragement of my little brother who’s auditioning for music school soon.  Playing again has made me very, very happy.