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Vistas in Orion 23 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
"PIA04215: Horsehead Nebula" Photojournal, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1999) "Rising from a sea of dust and gas like a giant seahorse, the Horsehead nebula is one of the most photographed objects in ...
The History of Playing-Cards: Hand-Crafted Art, Gutenberg, and All That 16 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
"A Concise History of Playing-cards" The World of Playing-Cards "Playing Cards have been around in Europe since the 1370s. Some of the earliest surviving packs were hand painted works of art which w...
Lemming Tracks: Global Warming Solution: Air Conditioned Parking Lots 14 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
Now that global warming has replaced the coming ice age as a looming disaster, humanity awaits the doom and gloom of flooded cities, submerged yacht harbors, and offshore ocean front property. But fe...
The Maastricht Hamburger 9 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
A hundred and one years ago a French scientist named Lewis Carrel started growing a chicken heart. Nothing unusual about that, except this bit of chicken meat wasn't inside a chicken. It was in a lab...
Killer Tomatoes and a Ranting Lemming 7 Aug 2013 | 04:58 am
As anyone who viewed "The Satan Bug" or "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" knows, humanity is ever in peril from the deadly dangers of science and new ideas. There are days when the Lemming feels like c...
Lemming Tracks: Writing and POOP 2 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Somewhere between the era of poodle skirts and the advent of DLL files, the Lemming did time in academia. The Lemming never let getting an education interfere with learning, and that's another topic....
Friday, Figs, Freyja, and the Letter "N" 26 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Friday is what keeps Thursday from running into Saturday. It's either the fifth or sixth day of the week, or the last day of the work week, or the day that isn't Labor Day in the United States: ever. ...
Filberts, Fardels, and a Rambling Lemming 19 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
"Then & Now: From Filberts to Hazelnuts" The Agriculture Quarterly, Oregon Department of Agriculture "Did you know that the entire U.S. hazelnut crop is grown in the Pacific Northwest? Most U.S. gro...
Blue Planet, Glass Rain 12 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
(NASA, ESA, M. Kornmesser, via Space.com, used w/o permission.) "This illustration shows HD 189733b, a huge gas giant that orbits very close to its host star HD 189733. The planet's atmosphere is sco...
Another - Thing - From the Burgess Shale 5 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
(Marianne Collins, via University of Toronto, used w/o permission) "University of Toronto/Royal Ontario Museum scientists discover unusual 'tulip' creature" Kim Luke, U of T News, University of Toro...
