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A tangenital mix of blogliness, studying the effects of time, change, and chaos
A student in Colorado, looking for some sort of synthesis--the big picture, encompassing all the strangeness in the universe--but willing to settle for the philosophic or poetic lens.
Most of my favorite blogs can be found here somewhere on ScienceBlogs. Here are a few of the other gems out there:
July 27, 2007
Category: Fractals
Hi! My mom has been busy this week, getting ready for vacations and back-to-school, so she let me do the Friday Fractal this week. I like making my own fractals, because they are always different, sort of like taking a...
Posted by Karmen at 3:53 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 25, 2007
If you’re somewhere in the Denver metro area tonight, consider dropping by the Tattered Cover in Lodo to hear my fellow ScienceBlogger Chris Mooney discuss his new book, Storm World. I’ll be there, sipping a cup of mocha and pondering the...
Posted by Karmen at 3:03 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 22, 2007
Category: Fractals
If we look at the natural world around us, fractals abound. Sometimes, not. This is the greatest puzzle to me... not that fractals appear in nature, but the fact that not everything is a fractal. Working on this week’s layered...
Posted by Karmen at 12:14 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 20, 2007
Category: Figments of Imagination
Is there hope for our children’s education? Last week, I questioned the direction our public schools were heading, expressing quite a bit of frustration. Yet, while I’ve been frustrated, along with many others (judging by the response to that post)...
Posted by Karmen at 6:47 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 17, 2007
This song has always brought tears to my eyes. It discussed events that occurred before I was born, but which triggered changes that have been unfolding since, throughout all of our lifetimes. Now, this video has filled in all the...
Posted by Karmen at 2:06 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 16, 2007
Category: Colorado
ScienceBloggers get on some strange topics of conversation, sometimes. Recently, we were discussing bizzarre road signs. Take my favorite, for instance: Who makes Colorado boring? You! Thanks... Actually, who could call Colorado a boring place, when there are assassination attempts...
Posted by Karmen at 8:04 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 13, 2007
Category: For the Love of Wisdom
I sometimes wonder if people who are unfamiliar with science are afraid to learn about it. It seems ridiculous, on the surface--"I don’t know much about science, so I’m not capable of learning about it"--but I suspect it is a...
Posted by Karmen at 5:55 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Fractals
I’ve never liked the taste of cream in my coffee, but I like to watch the way it swirls as you add it in. Such elegant forms appear when you add one liquid to another, especially when they are contrasting...
Posted by Karmen at 3:07 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 12, 2007
Category: Riding the Waves
Watch what happens when Darwin meets Homer, then make your own Simpsons avatar.
Posted by Karmen at 3:59 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 11, 2007
A surprisingly easy way to be hygienic: The polite place to cough or sneeze is in your sleeve. A new video explains how.
Posted by Karmen at 7:03 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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