Space is a Crowded Place
Space satellites may soon have to be capable of parallel parking if it gets any more crowded. And it definitely WILL!
Category: science
On Herd Immunity: or Not
Path of least resistance AND looking at new ways of getting information (mostly for me) out of my “second brain” of Roam Research (“networked tool for thought) and into a place that has at least a weak possibility of finding its way into other minds and unlikely conversation: So I will, from time to time, post stuff in this fashion. In this instance, all “highlights” are pulled directly from the long article to help me better understand the content. In future, at times, I …
Global Worming
Non-native earthworms are perhaps the most serious of invasive land pests. Learn about them and avoid spreading them when possible.
One Word, Benjamin: Plastics
This advice was innocent enough, in a smarmy and ominously-prescient sort of way when the “the graduate” got this insider tip so many decades ago. It was certainly the way the world of profit and growth were going, even then, on our way to a shrink-wrapped future. And woe to us, the tsunami of plastic has continued unabated ever since. From where you sit to read this, how many seconds does it take for you to find five objects made partly or entirely of …
Snot Otters To Be Proud Of
Some 50-60 folks (mostly from nearby Blacksburg I think) gathered in the damp gloom of the Rising Silo Brewery in the rain for the first gathering of the “Tap into Science” group. The focal point was the Eastern Hellbender (or Snot Otter or Old LasagnaSides, or…) as presented to the group by Dr. Bill Hopkins,  a principal researcher on this creature in the southeast. I learned a lot, the most encouraging of which perhaps is that the abilities to monitor and track the lives and …