November 23, 2011
If you are looking for some recipes, here are a few suggestions.
Theory and background
Thinking Thanksgiving I
Thinking Thanksgiving II
Homemade Thanksgiving
How to do a Godless Thanksgiving
Cooking Thanksgiving Turkey
What is a turkey, really?
Brining the bird
How to cook a turkey
How to NOT…
November 23, 2011
Lynn Margulis died yesterday at her home in Amherst at the age of 73.
Margulis is best known and best remembered for her endosymbiotic theory. You know what this is because you took basic biology and it is now part of every textbook. Notably, at the time Margulis published this idea, it was…
November 22, 2011
Don't forget, XFactor is on NAO!!!! Vote for LeRoy!
November 22, 2011
For reasons that are entirely beyond my comprehension, some time ago, people started to deep fry their turkeys. Don't do it unless you know what you are doing. And you probably don't know what you are doing.
Here's what William Shatner has to day about it:
November 22, 2011
I may or may not have written a blog post called "Manspace."
Its relationship to "Womanspace" and "Womanspacegate" will be only partly obvious.
November 22, 2011
We know that the right wing revels in stupidity; Willful stupidity and well practiced stupidity are thought to be the way elitist anti-populous tax-the-middle-class Republicans capture support from the masses. Seems to work rather well. But increasingly this trope of (ig)noble ignorance is being…
November 22, 2011
For now, a press release. More later:
WASHINGTON (Nov. 22, 2011)--In an apparent effort to discredit climate science, hackers again posted stolen emails from leading climate scientists online today, just days ahead of a United Nations climate meeting. According to the University of East Anglia in…
November 21, 2011
This video was produced to allow scientists to explain, in their own words, the importance of evolution to science -- and the related importance of teaching evolution in schools. Our goal is to convey the fact that evolution is an amazing, uplifting discovery that has served as the genesis of…
November 19, 2011
This is a bit long but you will benefit from watching all of it. It gets extra hot at 31:30.
I love the look on that woman's face at 31:38 and again at 31:47. LOL.
This particular member of congress, Don Young from Alaska, needs to get unelected. Frank J. Vondersaar seems to be the guy…
November 18, 2011
Tradition. Not just a song from Fiddler on the Roof.
You know the refrain: "The Papa, the Papa! Tradition." It's a great play but it is firmly rooted in the patriarchy, as "tradition" often is.
There are many ways to define "tradition" and we can look it up somewhere and have a flameware over…
November 18, 2011
If you really, really believe in this whole Einstein and Physics thing you're gonna say "Noez!!!! Nothing can go faster than the speed of light, c, see? So something is wrong with the NEW experiment replicating the results of the earlier experiment TOO. But maybe it is time to OVERTHROE the…
November 17, 2011
Teachers teach facts instead of concepts. Teachers teach from the textbooks and barely understand what is in the book anyway. There is not enough hands-on learning. All teachers really do anyway is to show videos most of the time. What should really happen is that a teacher should learn how to do…
November 17, 2011
The Fukushima nuclear power plant was opened to journalists for the first time; See below for numerous links to related stories.
There appears to be very high levels of radiation at Fukushima plant reactor #3, and at either reactors 1 and 3, or both, nuclear fission may have been occurring in the…
November 17, 2011
Well, obviously it is going to be something about radiation.
Check out my latest post at 10,000 Birds.
November 16, 2011
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
November 16, 2011
Here's the press release:
Mann to receive Hans Oeschger Medal from European Geosciences Union
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Michael Mann, professor of meteorology and geosciences and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State, was awarded the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geosciences Union.…
November 16, 2011
In case you want to know more about my nephew, LeRoy Bell, who is a contestant in the Top Ten on the XFactor USA show, and who will be performing TONIGHT (and you can VOTE!!!), check out this really nice write up on The Root: 'X Factor' Crooner Is 'Livin' It Up' - LeRoy Bell, 60, who once hit it…
November 15, 2011
Thursday is Occupy the Tenth Avenue Bridge Day!
November 15, 2011
Strapped to a jet-powered wing, Yves Rossy is the Jetman -- flying free, his body as the rudder, above the Swiss Alps and the Grand Canyon. After a powerful short film shows how it works, Rossy takes the TEDGlobal stage to share the experience and thrill of flying.
November 15, 2011
In what almost seems like a coordinated events, Occupy Wallstreet activites are being shut down across the country, with the big news being a rather violent raid on Zuccotti park this morning. This is promising to be an intense week for the Occupy movement, with Thursday having been slated as a…
November 14, 2011
With the end of the 'Harry Potter' film franchise and 'The Stand' no longer on his plate, director David Yates has revealed that his next project is a full length feature film of the long running British show 'Doctor Who.'*
I would have thought there were already people on this, but I guess not.…
November 14, 2011
Hot off the presses (stolen summarily from Here). This land temperature anomoly video showing both the growth of the global dataset and global warming was shown by the BEST group to Congress just a few moments ago.
November 14, 2011
I have only one Salman Rushdie story, so I'll tell it quick then point you to something you've GOT to see.
I had a friend and office mate in graduate school who came in one day all gloating and stuff because she had copped tickets to at Susan Sontag talk to be held in few days at MIT. These were…
November 14, 2011
I guess you don't want the Big Red X when you are kissing in space!
November 14, 2011
A friend of mine who is an excellent writer and critic, fellow blogger and social scientist, is trying to make ends meet by enhancing sales at the family business. Distracted by other things, I didn't know about this until this morning.
Welcome to Howling Pig, the uncommon soap company for…
November 14, 2011
Bug Girl's Talk fresh off the conference circuit:
Context, comments, more, here.
