We’ve now lived in our house for one year. Unlike last year, we were here already when it was time to start planting in Texas. We started with a 4’x4′ planter box and a few tomato and pepper plants, the idea being that if this went well we’d expand in […]
Daily Archives: June 6, 2012
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I mean it this time. Really. (F***ing Yahoo). I almost can’t stop watching this time-lapse video of the Venus solar transit, taken by NASA instruments at high resolution. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery/index.html?collection_id=13587&media_id=145648241
I almost can’t stop watching this time-lapse video of the Venus solar transit, taken by NASA instruments at high resolution. http://news.yahoo.com/video#video=29574776
The site "Listen, Dammit" (@listendammit) brings you music reviews on the artists and bands you SHOULD be listening to. Print media, as we have known it, is dying; attempts to save the industry have largely ignored the internet and have, at times, resembled the ill-fated and heroic efforts that most […]
The University of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma (USAO) published an article on my future-brother-in-law’s successful efforts to engage students directly physics by having them design, construct, and fire home-built catapults. I’m particularly fond of the winning design (discussed in the article), for its extremely clever use of both weight(s) […]