A very odd photo essay from JPG Magazine:
“On May 16 2007 I met Gerald Fly in my garden as I was shooting some cliché flowers. I had just bought my first cheap macro filters online and was excitingly giving them a try.
Gerald caught my attention as he was sitting on a flowerpot with nothing but [...]
So, for those of you like me who have zero interest in professional sports that don’t involve soccer or a bicycle: a nasty sexual harassment suit is going on, and the word “bitch” has been rather prominent in the proceedings.
This has led to some interesting discussions about when you should and shouldn’t use the [...]
So, I just gave my notice today on my job.
I’m leaving to take a new position as the Education and Outreach Director at a biological station.
I’m excited and terrified, and really would like a big drink. Too bad I have a 7pm workshop I’m supposed to be doing….
It’s long been known, although not much discussed by entomologists, that pesticides are used as a means for suicide. Pesticide self-poisoning accounts for an estimated 300,000 deaths yearly in Asia – over a third of the world’s total suicides. In 2003, pesticides accounted for over 60% of suicides in China, in rural areas [...]
Just wanted to remind everyone that today is the last day to vote for Rebecca in the Public Radio Talent Quest. Voting ends Sunday at 11:59pm ET.
Let’s get a skeptic on the air!
Elephantiasis is one of the more terrifying filarial diseases, mostly because of the gruesome images available online. The nematode worms that cause this disease are transmitted by mosquitoes, which is one of the reasons for my interest.
The adult worms live in the human lymphatic system, and prevent the circulation of body fluid. Thus, fluid [...]
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), one of the most interesting magazines out there, has a new article on the “Rachel Carson is evil/DDT will save the planet” insanity in the media.
I think they pretty much sum up why an idea that is unsupported by facts has such staying power:
“At one level, these articles send [...]
In our basement. Last night the pipe leading from the well pump to the reservoir tank suddenly burst, and because I was asleep, it just spewed water for a couple of hours.
So instead of finishing off my grading, or puttering in the garden on a nice day, we’ll be running around looking for heavy [...]
I was unable to talk like a pirate this week, but fortunately Zeldman collected up a top 12 list for me. His commenters also contribute some very good ones, including a Shakespeare/pirate mashup:
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t, ya scurvy motherfucker. ARRRRRRRR.”
Enjoy!
Also, on the “something I never thought in a [...]
Some time back I reported on an effort to use sterile male releases to control disease spread by tsetse fly in Ethiopia–and why it probably was a doomed effort.
Another bit of evidence in today’s Science: a letter pointing out that flies reared in colonies are inadvertently selected to be most successful in the laboratory, not [...]
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