Kitchen Explosion and the Big Bang Theory
They sure don’t make plastic bags to hold tamarind bags like they used to do. I took my tamarind bag out of my plastic-grocery bag and it ripped open sending tamarind pods everywhere. Many of […]
Tag: research
Motivational Poster #6, Become A Chemist
Humanity has always been doggedly slogging away from the primordial ooze from whence it came. The advances from hominids to the first human, Lucy of Olduvai Gorge, came slowly. Then we evolved into Neanderthals, next […]
Seven Lines From My Work In Progress
I was tagged by writer Samantha Branham for the 7x7x7 challenge: seven lines from the 7th page of my work in project. Way better than the 666 challenge. I’m not tagging anyone, ‘cause I don’t […]
Great Moments in Literature and Literary Criticism
The following line comes from a well-known and well-respected author of Westerns, “He could feel the heat from below; since heat rises, …” Whoa! Heat rises? Did the author do his research? . . . […]
A Simple Look At Passwords
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK I have a bad habit of being optimistic about humanity. Oh, in theory that’s a good thing. Let’s all think the best of people! Shouldn’t it be that way? Sure […]
Dr. Google, I presume?
With the Internet, everyone is his own doctor. My brother Steve has sidestepped medical school and a grueling internship. No need to risk malpractice suits or to slave long hours. It’s very simple. Steve typed, […]
We Need Answers
Q: How do you know that a society is evolving backwards, toward lesser intelligence? A: When researchers are needed to figure out things that are obvious. Researchers from Canada are reporting that The Blood Type […]
Bring me a higher ground.
The Bill Y college years were interesting years for these were the years I first invested all of my time, trying to understand how magnets work. There are those among us who spend their life […]
Happy National Engineers Week!
It’s National Engineers Week! And not the choo choo kind – I don’t think. So, I think I will send a pseudo personal greeting card to my computer engineer husband and all the other engineers […]
The Horrors Of Research
Ohio State University recently did a three-day study on the link between heavy use of violent video games and aggression. The researchers used a group of college students in France, which makes sense — when […]