Today is Memorial Day, the day we in the States set aside specifically to honor and remember men and women who have died in military service. I wanted to do a post for Memorial Day and I started thinking about the current war in Iraq. After zipping around in Wikipedia for a while, I found …
Monthly Archive: May 2010
May 30 2010
Biology Funs!
It’s such an icky disease. Can somebody just make it go away, please? A cure for a disease that can up to 90% of infected individuals? A cure for a disease that makes people bleed out of every orifice in their body and can kill them 2-21 days after the onset of symptoms? I mean …
May 28 2010
Friday Night Lights – in the Laundromat
Ugh, I must be turning into an adult. Who plans to do laundry on a Friday night? psst….It’s me! I’ll be sorting the smelly laundry and doing washer-dryer-folding table rotations. All. Night. Long. Ohhhh yeah… + = steamy hot Friday laundry night. As an aside: Does anyone else LOVE the smell of the laundry …
May 27 2010
Just one of those things…
I don’t know why I love this video so much. But I really, really love this video. Maybe it’s that the guy is so excited about the fish (= excited about nature = excited by biology —> I’m a biodork), or maybe it’s that he swears like a sailor (biodork —> tendency to swear like …
May 26 2010
Waterwalking Sport Video
This video is mindblowing! And sadly, totally fake. Rebecca Watson over at Skepchick does a great job of explaining why this is a nothing more than a superbly-produced shoe ad, and points out some clues that the video may not be on the up-and-up: All men are wearing the same brand (Hi-Tec) head to toe. …
May 25 2010
Happy Nerd/Geek Day and Towel Day
Do you have your towel at hand? Today is both Nerd/Geek Day and Towel Day! So lay back and relax! Wrap yourself in your towel and sleep under the stars of Kakrafoon, or for those of your looking for a bit more adventure – engage in hand-to-hand combat with your towel or use it to …
May 24 2010
Biblical Armageddon or Global Warming?
Religion vs. Science, the shouting continues… Christian Groups: Biblical Armageddon Must Be Taught Alongside Global Warming And frustration, actually. For some reason, I cannot get the embed code to work right. What up with that? Video Source is from the Onion.
May 24 2010
Gone Fishin’
Saturday was a lot of fun. I slept through my alarm…and by “slept through my alarm” I mean I turned the obnoxious thing off at 7am and went back to sleep. So, I woke up four minutes before my 9am meetup time with friends for breakfast and fishing. Luckily, breakfast and fishing means no makeup or …
May 19 2010
Who needs sleep?
Last weekend was incredible – I’m just starting to recover! Let me tell you what I did… On Friday night, I went to the first classroom session of my SCUBA class! The class took place in a teensy, tiny 9-chair classroom in the basement of the Minneapolis Scuba Center. The lessons were brief. They were …
May 13 2010
Meet Dr. Hawa Abdi
The Daily Beast via Skepchick: Terrorists Kidnapp a Hero: Militants are holding the Mother Teresa of Somalia hostage, and as a result, dozens of children have already died. Eliza Griswold talks to Dr. Hawa Abdi from the home where she is being held captive. This story has it all – subjugation of women, religious extremism, …
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