Yesterday (Feb 5th) In Film History
From Answers.com: Ninety years ago today, three of Hollywood’s leading actors, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., joined up with influential director D.W. …
Evolution: The First Evidence
In “Darwin’s First Clues” By David Quammen (published February 2009) on NationalGeographic.com, Mr. Quammen says: He hinted at the subject in 1845, in the second …
Temperature Update
So my temperature around 5:45 PM today was 97.6 F. Getting back to “normal!” But one’s temperature is supposed to be highest around 6 PM …
Whale Evolution
Mr. Brian Switek (student in ecology and evolution at Rutgers) says in “Maiacetus, the good mother whale” on Scienceblogs.com: When the English anatomist William H. …
Paying For College
In “Finding Free Money for College” by Anne Kates Smith on WashingtonPost.com (Sunday, January 25, 2009; Kiplinger’s Personal Finance; Page F03), Mrs. Smith says: [T}he …
An Engineer-Physicist-Philosopher Joke
An engineer, a physicist, and a philosopher were hiking through the Scottish highlands. Coming to the top of a hill, they saw a solitary black …
My Anti-Fever
Taking my temperature has been interesting. This morning around 9:20 AM it was 96 F. Now at 1:40 PM it is 95.6 F. It’ll be …
On Writing and Reasoning
Looks like Dr. Bertonneau has written a scholarly article on the role written language plays in reasoning. So I’ll let him speak, thus saving myself …
Fats: Avoid…or Control?
In the Paleo Diet Newsletter, v. 5, #5, Pedro Bastos says: As noted in the previous issue, awareness is growing that the type of dietary …