Slow Groove

Here's an interesting hypothesis the researcher Lee Smolin calls " cosmological natural selection ." Here's a quote from ...

Uncle Danny, if you read this - here's an idea for your next greenhouse for year-round plants. Uses colored high efficiency LEDs allowi...

I saw this link from Marginal Revolution today. More people live inside this circle than without . File this under "something new I l...

1. Why is there a jet stream? Why does it blow from west to east? 2. Why is it so much colder on the poles than around the equator? Can ...

Army says it doesn't need any more tanks - "we need to use the money elsewhere." Congress says, " nope, you get more tan...

I saw this quote of Tocqueville today "our only options have long been co-thriving or no thriving." I'd never seen it befor...

I had this guitar out the other day and had Trish take some pictures. I thought it was just a cool looking guitar and got it "for the ...

I was opening the freezer earlier thinking about all the cold air that rushes out when I open the door. I got to wondering if it came out s...

I was cleaning off my camera and wanted to post a couple food pics I thought were cool. I call this one celery: And I call this one chil...

The Placebo effect is fairly interesting to me. I've probably blogged about it some before - but as most know it's a name given to ...

This blog post is thought provoking in an economics-sort-of-way. Why we do what we do when it's not our job. " We live in a worl...

I've always tended to be what is called a night owl - functioning best at night rather than in the mornings. When I should be going to ...

More on Wall Street gaming the system. Rotten to the core . This story suggests that investment bank practice might involve underpricing I...

Just like people like caffeine in our drinks, bees seem to like caffeine in their nectar too and go back to flowers whose nectar has more c...