Posts by sarcozona
in vain
I finished reading Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream today. It was an amazing book that detailed our response to 9-11 and compared it to how we responded to another national crisis: the conflicts with Native Americans when the nation was forming. Basically, we create a myth of weak women as a way to make the […]
one more reason to join the botany club
We make awesome tamales.
Walls of glass
Equisetum aren’t the only organisms that use silica in their cell walls. Algae in the phylum Chrysophyta (golden-brown algae) use it to make “seeds.” Golden-brown algae are often found in ponds and shallow lakes that freeze from top to bottom in the winter. How is the poor little alga going to eat or swim around […]
snowy days
It’s snowing outside and my migraine has abated. Now I’m studying for finals and enjoying my hot chocolate. Snow makes studying so much nicer.
Like eating glass
Image via Wikipedia You may be familiar with the plant genus Equisetum, more commonly known as horsetail or scouring rush. Scouring rush is a practical name based on where Equisetum is found and what it’s good for. Rushes generally grow in water and Equisetum, while not exactly a type of rush, certainly won’t be found […]
Dear Santa
Since you missed my housewarming party (ok, I didn’t have one), here are a few opportunities to make up for it. And just in time for my birthday and Christmas… the things I want and the books and movies I want And used is even better than new. Hugs are even better than presents. Cookies […]
Finished
As of 6:30 this morning, my research proposal is finished. In case you haven’t been keeping track, that’s two this month. The first one was a description of what I was going to do with money I’d already been given. The second is an attempt to convince someone to give me money for what I […]