Hedwig Pöllöläinen
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September 8, 2008
tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 5]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at…
September 8, 2008
A reader of mine posed a series of questions to an earlier blog entry that I unfortunately neglected to respond to at the time. I am researching an article that I am freelance writing for a journal (deadline TODAY, YIKES!!) and ran across her original comment, which I reposted below the fold, and I…
September 8, 2008
tags: London England, science-themed pubs, Nature Network Science conference
You might recall that I went on a science-theme based pub crawl Friday before the Nature Network Conference was held. We went to four different pubs, starting with the Jeremy Bentham, the Museum Tavern, the Ben Crouch…
September 8, 2008
tags: Harry Potter Lexicon, copyright infringement, JK Rowling, Steve Vander Ark
A little while ago today, I heard a special news announcement on the radio that JK Rowling won her lawsuit regarding infringement to her copyright by the Harry Potter Lexicon and awarded $6,750 in statutory damages…
September 8, 2008
tags: common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, birds, nature, Image of the Day
[Mystery bird] Common nighthawk, Chordeiles minor, photgraphed at Smith Point, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 29 August 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ…
September 7, 2008
tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 4]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at…
September 7, 2008
tags: Broad-winged hawk, Buteo platypterus, identify this bird, birds, nature, Image of the Day
[Mystery bird] Broad-winged hawk, Buteo platypterus, photographed at Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 2 April 2008 [larger view].…
September 7, 2008
Front door to London's Piccadilly Backpackers.
Image: GrrlScientist 6 September 2008 [larger view].
For those of you coming to London who might be searching for a cheap and livable place to crash, there is a hostel in Piccadilly Circus called Piccadilly Backpackers. That's where I am staying (in…
September 7, 2008
tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books
"One cannot have too many good bird books"
--Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927).
The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that are…
September 6, 2008
My gratitude to you, my readers, is inexpressible for sending me to London for the Nature Network Science blog conference. This was an amazing gift and I was so thrilled to meet so many amazing scientists who write so eloquently about their craft, their careers, and their personal lives for the…
September 6, 2008
Professor Steve Steve sleeps on the bar, shitfaced.
Image GrrlScientist 29 August 2008 [larger view].
Free advice for men: this is bad behavior when spending time with a single female, especially if she has to carry your mouldering carcass home with her.
September 6, 2008
tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 3]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at…
September 6, 2008
tags: Long-Billed Thrasher, Toxostoma longirostre, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-Billed Thrasher, Toxostoma longirostre, at Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 March 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/750s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm…
September 6, 2008
I found a decent pub in London that provides free wifi and a wall outlet so I can plug in my laptop and stay until they shoo me out when the pubs close! Can you hear me screaming in ecstacy? Of course, it had to be my last night here, just before I have to get up early so I can make my flight to…
September 6, 2008
Here's a (relatively) newly published blog carnival along with something interesting that you might enjoy;
Carnival of the Vanities, 4 September issue. This is the oldest of all the blog carnivals and was the inspiration for the massive number of them that are now posted.
London's Lexicon, issue #…
September 6, 2008
tags: London England, Harry Potter film sites London, Harry Potter, photography, photoessay
Classic telephone box in London. These are an endangered species.
Telephone boxes appear throughout the Harry Potter films, particularly as an entrance into the Ministry of Magic in the fifth Harry Potter…
September 6, 2008
YIKES! I am arriving home tomorrow early afternoon, in the middle of a dying hurricane. If my flight manages to land without problems (unlikely), I still have to rely on the train to get home and NYC subways tend to flood when the rain gets heavy, as is predicted for Sunday, especially the subway…
September 6, 2008
I am stuck in a McDonald's which has the only free wifi connection I've been able to find in London, and made a horrifying discovery: there is a Darwin-shaped wall stain that I cannot see, nor apparently, I cannot even read about because the story is considered to be "an: "Adult/Mature Content;…
September 5, 2008
Hi Science Girl, you've probably received tons of emails from other geologists, but your mystery object is an ammonite fossil, a nautiloid sea creature which lived between the Silurian/Devonian (ca. 400 million years ago) and became extinct with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous (65 Ma).…
September 5, 2008
tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 2]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at…
September 5, 2008
tags: Blue-crowned Lorikeet, Vini australis, parrots, birds, images
The Blue-crowned Lorikeet, Vini australis, is a parrot found throughout the Samoa and Tonga islands and Lau archipelago. This individual was photographed in the Blackburn Pavilion, a large indoor tropical aviary at the London Zoo…
September 5, 2008
Here's a bunch of blog carnivals that have either been published recently, or that I've missed in my previous Carnivalia;
Carnival of College and Finance, sixth issue. This blog carnival focuses on the finances of people who are in college or who are academics.
Cancer Research Blog Carnival, issue…
September 5, 2008
tags: Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, at Valley Nature Center, Weslaco, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 31 March 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/320s f/8.0…
September 5, 2008
tags: Natural History Museum, London, England, mystery object, travel
Mystery object at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
When racing through the Natural History Museum in London, I photographed this object and forgot to…
September 5, 2008
tags: Professor Steve Steve, London, England, Nature Network conference, science blog conference, Nature Network science blog conference, travel
Professor Steve Steve at the beginning of the famous Ale Trail pub crawls (there is more than one of these "Ale Trail" pub crawls in London) -- he…
September 4, 2008
tags: Professor Steve Steve, London, England, Nature Network conference, science blog conference, Nature Network science blog conference, travel
Whose is bigger?
Sales person, Mark (left), and Nature science blog writer, Bob O'Hara, compare their shortbreads at the famous Twinings Tea Shop in…
September 4, 2008
tags: West 42nd street/Times Square Subway Art, The Return of Spring, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Return of Spring.
Artist: Jack Beal (1999).
West 42nd Street/Times Square glass tile mosaic art #2 [Detail 1]
as seen on the mezzanine for NYC's Times Square stop at…
September 4, 2008
tags: Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Golden-Fronted Woodpecker, Melanerpes aurifrons, at Valley Nature Center, Weslaco, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 1 April 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/100s f/8.0…
September 4, 2008
Some of these reciprocal links are late, but it's better to be late than not at all, I suppose. Here's some blog carnivals for you to enjoy while I am seeking out more London adventures to tell you about on my blog;
Carnival of Horses for September. This blog carnival focuses on the best horse-…
September 4, 2008
Octopus at the Natural History Museum in London, England.
Image: GrrlScientist 3 September 2008 [larger view].
As soon as I saw this sculpture on a pillar at the Natural History Museum in London, I thought of one person. Guess who that person was? You have three guesses and the first two don't…