Dear fellow bloggers, Don’t you love it when you go from not knowing what you’ll write about, to not knowing how to keep your Very Exciting Topic focused, in a matter of moments?
… and then I thought: open access! Of course!
As a longtime science journalist, I am familiar with the heavy-hitting journals: Science, Nature, Proceedings [...]
Living in the Deep South for the past year and a half has been culturally enlightening. It has also, at times, been shocking.
I’m not likely to forget one of the first muggy summer evenings I sat around a picnic table with a couple of my neighbors. I’m not even sure how the subject of evolution [...]
What does Antarctica have to do with a mission to search for Earth-like planets around other stars?
Maybe not much, usually. But yesterday, NASA’s Kepler mission sent back its first images of the patch of the Milky Way where it will stare for the next three-plus years, hunting for planets in the habitable zones around other [...]
Kerry Knudsen was pretty excited about President Obama’s election — so much that he named a new species after him.
A lichen.
Knudsen, the lichen curator in the herbarium at the University of California at Riverside, discovered the new species in 2007, during a lichen survey on California’s Santa Rosa Island. ”I named it Caloplaca obamae to show my appreciation [...]
For nearly four years, I haven’t owned a car. And now I want a car. But that wish is in direct conflict with my environmental values, especially today.
This morning I ran the numbers again, and confirmed that I have enough money for a down payment. I’ve been dreaming of getting behind the wheel of a sporty [...]
