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Pinyon confusion…
Pinyon pine cover quite a bit of the west. Economically, they’re good for pine nuts and fence posts. Ecologically, of course, they’re a lot more important than that. They’re also very important in figuring out what the climate was like a long time ago since their needles can be found in packrat middens dating back […]
Movies!
So between it being summer and me being brain dead from migraines, I’ve watched a few movies lately. My extensive reviews: The new Indiana Jones movie – aliens? really? 8 Femmes – musical, 1950s, French, whodunnit: camp AND a little twisted. Best movie ever. 25th Hour – I feel like it could have been way […]
What I’ve noticed
What happens in the brain when people orgasm. I thought it was especially interesting that different types of female orgasms look incredibly different in the brain. With clitoral orgasms, the brain gets very very quiet – the article describes it as “widespread neural power failures,” but at least some non clitoral orgasms actually activate the […]
Flagstaff to Phoenix (and back again)
I drove down to Phoenix yesterday with a friend. The landscape is otherworldly most of the way – I’m still not used to living in a volcanic region. Even more interesting though, are the changes caused by the elevation drop – Phoenix is 6000 feet lower than Flagstaff. The flora changes dramatically. We started in […]
Weekly top 5
Mascott – Dreamer’s Book Jem – Finally Woken Deb Talan – Something Burning Deb Talan – Sincerely Sonia Dada – Test Pattern
What I’ve Noticed (belatedly)
Georgia: even more of a backwater than you thought. Read a book, plant a tree. I need a lot of these. You don’t believe in evolution. You just believe it. To believe in something takes faith, trust, effort, strength. I need none of these things to believe evolution. It just is. My health is better […]
Spring break, day 5: Lotusland part 8
My favorite part of the garden by far was the cycad garden. Ganna Walska put this garden in later in her life. She sold a significant amount of her jewelry to be able to afford the cycads. This particular cycad is a male of the species Encephalartos woodsii. This is an incredibly rare species and […]