grrlscientist | August 14, 2008Don't you just hate it when you find out that one of your very good friends waits until the Olympics have started before invading a poverty-striken country that just happens to be sitting on top of a couple oil pipelines, while killing thousands of innocent people?
This is especially inconvenient when this invasion occurs while your top foreign policy advisor and Russian expert finally is forced to interrupt her precious vacation.
"This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten a neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it," declared…
grrlscientist | August 14, 2008tags: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, movie posters, poster teasers
Okay, I am going to close the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie poster poll tomorrow, so now is your chance to vote for your favorite poster. The poll is reposted below the fold for your convenience.
Which Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster is your favorite?
Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3
Poster 4
Poster 5
Poster 6
Poster 7
Poster 8
Poster 9
Poster 10
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grrlscientist | August 13, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #36
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | August 13, 2008I am recovering -- too slowly -- from what appears to be a pinched nerve in my neck. I have been trapped in a cloud of agony since Sunday (well, Saturday, actually, but the alcohol kinda blurred that memory), barely able to move, but in so much pain that I was unable to remain still and unable to sleep. I have been taking tremendous amounts of ibuprofen (as many as ten in an hour) to reduce the pain to barely tolerable levels, but it hasn't worked very well. As you might remember, my left arm is nearly useless because I am recovering from a fractured left shoulder. But this nerve thing has…
grrlscientist | August 13, 2008I know that a couple of you have completed Seed Media's ScienceBlogs Reader Survey, but they need to hear from more of you. The linked survey takes only twenty minutes of your life to complete, and everyone (except me, boo!) who completes the survey will be added to a drawing for prizes: an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Personally, I think that my readers need to share their prizes with me. I sure would like an iPhone or a MacBook Air! Or heck, I'd even go for an Apple TV, even though I've never owned a TV and am not sure I want to change my life to fit around a TV. ..
grrlscientist | August 13, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1600s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 12, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #35
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | August 12, 2008tags: Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Long-billed Curlew, Numenius americanus, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 25 July 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/2000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #34
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008
I receive a fair number of books to review each week, so I thought I should do what several magazines and other publications do; list those books that have arrived in my mailbox so you know that this is the pool of books from which I will be reading and reviewing on my blog.
A Portrait of the Brain by Adam Zeman (New Haven: Yale University Press; 2008). Seed Media Group sent this book to me to review.
Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald and R. W. Adamchak (NYC: Oxford University Press; 2008). The authors contacted me about reviewing…
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 10 May 2008 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008Here's a few blog carnivals that were published while I was hanging out with my ScienceBlog colleagues (sorry for posting this so late!);
I and the Bird blog carnival, issue 81. This blog carnival focuses on wild birds and birding.
Carnival of Cinema, episode 88, the Blogger of Paradise edition. This blog carnival links to movie stuff! Yippee!
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008
I've had my say, so I am trying to encourage you to comment, so this thread is dedicated to you, my readers, and to giving you the opportunity to tell us about something that concerns you. Is there something in the news that has been bothering you? Has something happened recently that is still on your mind? Has a recent experience caused you to change your mind about something, or change your world view? Have you accomplished something that you are especially proud of? Are you reading a book that you want to recommend to others? I am interested in your lives and what you are thinking about…
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008tags: Birds in the News, BirdNews, ornithology, birds, avian, newsletter
ABSTRACT: Chattering Lory, sometimes known as the Scarlet Lory, Lorius garrulus.
Image: John Del Rio [larger view].
Birds in Science News
The Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo, Chalcites basalis, specializes in laying a single egg in the nests of fairy-wrens, but sometimes parasitizes nests of other species such as thornbills or robins. The cuckoo chick has a shorter incubation period than the hosts' chicks, and after the cuckoo chick hatches, it pushes the host's eggs out of the nest and imitates the begging calls of the…
grrlscientist | August 11, 2008
During our get-together this past weekend, several of my SciBlings asked me why you don't comment very much, compared to the amount of content that I provide. I thought I was the only one who noticed that the ratio of readers' comments to individual entries on this blog are dramatically lower than those found on other science blogs, but apparently, others have also noticed. Indeed, during our reader "meet and greet", I met several readers who claimed they read my blog often, but never comment (the readers of mine who said they'd come out to meet all of us never showed up, so I didn't meet…
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008tags: West 66th street/Lincoln Center Subway Art, Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers.
Artist: Nancy Spero, 1999. Installed 2004.
West 66th Street/Lincoln Center Subway tile mosaic art #33
as seen at NYC's Lincoln Center stop at Broadway for the uptown (northbound) 1 train.
Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].
Glass mosaic murals depicting scenes of theater, dance, and orchestra-related subjects are scattered throughout this station.
I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway…
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008
Some of my ScienceBlog colleagues in NYC 2008.
Okay, a reader commented on this image, so I had to leave this here, but one of my colleagues who doesn't want to be revealed to the public was caught in the picture. So here's something different to look at -- one of my favorite pictures, that I have never found an excuse to use.
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008
Professor Steve Steve (of "Panda's Thumb" fame) sits with GrrlScientist in an internet cafe and coffee shop near her home in NYC. Professor Steve Steve will accompany GrrlScientist to London, England at the end of August.
Image: GrrlScientist 10 August 2008 [larger view].
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008tags: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, movie posters, poster teasers
Well, not many people have responded to my Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie poster poll, so I am asking you once again, whichy poster do you like best? I've linked to each of the posters from the poll itself so you can look at them all and decide which you want to vote for, too.
The poll is reposted below the fold for your convenience.
Which Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince poster is your favorite?
Poster 1
Poster 2
Poster 3
Poster 4
Poster 5
Poster 6
Poster 7…
grrlscientist | August 10, 2008tags: American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, birds, nature, Image of the Day
Reflection.
American Avocet, Recurvirostra americana, at Bolivar Flats, Texas.
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 20 July 2007 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 500.0mm iso400.