Author: Baedon
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Television Pet Peeves
I don’t watch as much television as I used to. When I get the chance, however, there are a few things that have begun to tick me off. This is a test…. I understand the need to test the Emergency Broadcasting System, but we’ve reached a state of overkill. A weekly test is a bit…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Ready to fail at New Year’s Resolutions again? Here’s my list of doomed goals, complete with the usual dose of sarcasm and inevitable disappointment. Enjoy!
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Gone Fishing (Neanderthals Shown to Have a more Diverse Diet)
Findings in two coastal sites in Gibraltar — Vanguard Cave and Garhams Cave — has shown that Neanderthals enjoyed dining on sea food. the mass accumulation of remains of mollusks, fish, seals, and dolphins that litter the caves show that they routinely dined on the sea creatures for a few thousand years. This discovery proves…
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HIV Older than First Thought
Recent discoveries in HIV research have revealed that the virus is at least a decade older than originally thought. Scientists did a biopsy of a lymph node of a woman from what is now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1960, contained traces of the HIV-1 genome. Compared with existing HIV sequences suggest that…
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Winter Tech
Ah, the modern marvel that is the snow blower—a glorious contraption that has saved many of us from the spine-cracking torment of shoveling snow by hand. It’s one of those inventions that makes you think, “Finally, humanity is getting somewhere.” No more sweating through layers of wool and flannel, no more wincing as that first…
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Taking Flight with Italy’s Holiday Witch
Image via Wikipedia clipped from www.spiegel.de In Babbo Natale, Italy has its own Father Christmas. But it’s La Befana, the ugly, broom-flying and present-wielding witch who keeps children on their toes in many parts of the country. Like St. Nick, Befana knows who’s been naughty and nice. Like many Christian traditions, Befana has pagan roots,…
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Pondering heaven through Brooke
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June, Dawdling away their wat’ry noon) Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear, Each secret fishy hope or fear.
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Interesting Stuff about 9
The number nine was consecrated to the Spheres and the Muses. It is the sign of every circumference; because a circle of 360 degrees is equal to 9, that is to say, 3+6+0=9. Nevertheless, the ancients regarded this number with a sort of terror: they considered it a bad presage; as the symbol of versatility,…
