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28 February 12 08:47 PM
Yesterday we fooled a few bacteria into taking in some jellyfish DNA, and now they fluoresce green. Tomorrow I will take a few colonies of these and give them what we all need--food, shelter, and a little security, and I'll get a few million more by Thursday. Read More...
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Imbolc


01 February 12 08:33 PM
An Cailleach Bhearra wandered around back in the 10th century in western Ireland, eating "seaweed, salmon, and wild garlic" (my kind of woman), looking for firewood. If the day was bright and sunny, beware--she had gathered plenty of wood and was set Read More...
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Food is not energy


22 January 12 08:36 AM
A response to a response to my last post--NASA, food is not energy. Language matters, especially to young children trying to make sense of the world. I remember being utterly confused as a child thinking that Karl and Groucho were the same guy--how dangerous Read More...
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What hour?


06 November 11 06:37 AM
Yesterday the sun hung in the sky for 10 hours and 24 minutes in these parts. Today the sun cheats us out of two minutes, only hanging around for 10 hours and 22 minutes. Way I figure it, I lost two minutes of Ra time as he travels on his night-barque. Read More...
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Spring silliness


11 May 11 08:34 PM
As I type this, a tiny gnat is trying to break through my monitor. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." Theodosius Dobzhansky I should be crafting a descent with modification (misnamed "evolution") exam. Descent with modification Read More...
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"Radiation is Actually Good For You"


19 March 11 10:45 AM
Ann Coulter never actually said this*, but if she had, I'd be nodding my head vigorously alongside her. Radiation is good for you! Without radiation, there'd be no flowers, no food, no fun. Inside chloroplasts, electrons get tossed about like rag dolls Read More...
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The end of winter


27 February 11 06:38 PM
Our crocuses bloomed today. A tiny horseshoe crab, smaller than my thumbnail, crawled out of the Delaware Bay. The day lilies are rising again, like Phoenixes from the snow's ashes. All of this is more real than the nonsense that passes for discourse Read More...
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February horseshoe crab


26 February 11 04:31 PM
Leslie and I found the tiny shell of a young horseshoe crab this afternoon while walking on the edge of the Delaware Bay. The shell is backlit by our sun, the source of just about all our energy, whatever "energy" means. I can construct all kinds of things Read More...
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Last harvest


22 January 11 01:22 PM
Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living soul. As I was poking around the classroom garden yesterday, getting the plants ready for the weekend, I found a Read More...
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The Bambification of Dr. King


15 January 11 04:41 PM
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the ***'s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who Read More...
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Crocuses and clams


08 January 11 05:41 PM
We're a few weeks away from the crocuses. They know the sun is coming back. I do not know how they know but they do. Soon green fingers will break through the corms. Meanwhile, my clams have settled in for the winter. Not deep, maybe 2 or 3 inches deeper Read More...
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Dying light


04 December 10 03:01 PM
I tossed some metal into the Atlantic surf for about an hour today. The sun has settled low in the south. Gashes of December light broke through the wintry gray clouds. Even the midday shadows are long now. The chilly brine bathed my feet as I cast. It Read More...
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On balance


05 November 10 07:08 AM
Theology alert--f eel free to jump in.... This was inspired by Father Sean and Brother John and the Reverend Scott. Balance. We need balance in our lives. Overwhelmed? Seek balance. An innocuous philosophy--who could possibly be against balance? A madman Read More...
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On cycles


28 August 10 07:54 PM
Last night we heard a whistle, then a bang; our neighbor saw a flash. I figured someone had launched a bottle rocket, and today Leslie found the evidence near the compost bin, a bright yellow cardboard tube attached to a pink stick As I was walking by Read More...
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August light


21 August 10 11:03 AM
We lose over two minutes of sunlight a day now . We'll have lost 17 minutes by next weekend, well over a half hour in two weeks. We're losing a couple of hours of light a week now. The room was chilly this morning. The gas molecules zinging around the Read More...
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