Berry Go Round 4

Posted by sarcozona on May 1, 2008. No comments.

The 4th edition of Berry Go Round is up at Foothills Fancies. If you don’t have time to go read all the awesome entries, highlights are below:

Biodiversity and health issues at Seeds Aside.

New seed fern fossils found where we didn’t expect them (in time) at the Ethical Palaeontologist.

I’m very jealous that Fred has redbuds and I don’t. They make me terribly homesick. Spring in Flagstaff is not a very pretty season. It’s chilly and dry and dusty and incredibly windy.

This summer I’ll be

Posted by sarcozona on April 30, 2008. No comments.

Measuring tree rings from May 9th to June 15th
Taking classes at MSU from June 15th to August 1st
Having a blast at ESA from August 1st to August 8th
Back to tree rings and classes on the 9th

But we should go hiking some weekend!

photo365

Posted by sarcozona on April 30, 2008. No comments.

I don’t really claim to take amazing pictures, but I do like having a record of my life. So this project where you take at least 1 picture every day for a year definitely appeals to me.

Day 1: My desk reading week. Messy, but not a textbook in sight.

Red Velvet Cake

Posted by sarcozona on April 28, 2008. 2 comments.

red velvet, courtesy of elsa

Originally uploaded by snickclunk

I really want to make one of these. Whose birthday is next?

Spring Break, day 1 with pictures

Posted by sarcozona on April 27, 2008. No comments.

I’ve written about the first two days of my spring break already, but now there are many more pictures from day one and two!

From our stop in the Mohave Desert:

And night botanizing on the coast:

Scientific Understanding

Posted by sarcozona on April 27, 2008. No comments.

E.O. Wilson in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Theoretical physics and molecular biology are acquired tastes. The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding: Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.

weekly top 5

Posted by sarcozona on April 26, 2008. No comments.

Now on Saturdays instead of Wednesdays.
Rasputina – Oh Perilous World

Nat King Cole – The World of Nat King Cole

Beth Orton – Central Reservation

Peaches – The Teaches of Peaches

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