I got an email from Australia Post a little while ago asking me to do a lifestyle survey. Gmail doesn’t load images in emails unless you tell it to (or tell it to always display images from that sender), so you get to see the alternate text. Email before images I allowed it to show […]
Birds’ sense of direction
I saw the headline Study suggests birds can truly navigate. It cracked me up. It’s cool that birds can navigate over 1000 kilometers, but when they fly into church in the middle of the service they can’t find their way back out… and poop on the projector screen.
Awful Grandchildren
Oh my goodness! Last night was both excellent and awful, not in that order. There we were, husband and I, sitting on the couch eating some Asian pastry things, watching You Tube videos and an episode of Battlestar Galactica. I got an unexpected call on my mobile from my father-in-law asking where we were. Holy […]
The beauty of science
Today’s XKCD comic reveals a marvelous truth about science. It’s the same in biology. Put a PCR on, or something that needs to digest or wash for an hour or two and then do something interesting. 😛