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Interesting infographics showing how much space the 6.9 billion people in the world would occupy if the world’s population lived in one city. (Each info graphic represents the population density of a different city.)

A few years ago I blogged about the NASA Asteroid Watch mailing list. Those bright guys at NASA would email you when an Asteroid or space debris came within sight of the Earth. Yeah, this ranks up there with the antigravity pen in terms of ideas to come out of NASA that weren’t so brilliant. […]

Take or upload a photo and cutting edge modeling software will find your doggy match. Very serious business. http://www.doggelganger.co.nz/

Apparently someone is selling fake eggs in China. At 360 eggs per chicken per year, 2 feet of space required per chicken, and the tiny feeding requirements of each chicken, I just can’t see how manufacturing fakes would be cost effective. ChinaHush, a website in mainland China where fake eggs are believed to have first […]

Spurred on by my mother laughing that I was probably baking a loaf of fresh french bread while I was flambéing the lobster shells for our weekly lobster bisque one Sunday afternoon (I wasn’t), I was motivated to find an easy satisfying baguette recipe that would fit into our weekend routine. Now several months later […]

s:”What is that thing that you’re supposed to cook and it’s supposed to have brown sugar? Oooh ooh, I want oatmeal!!”

BUCS 2011 X.C Carnage! from Joe Bowman on Vimeo.

But my sauteed chard + egg + cheddar + avocado + chipotle pepper burrito is really good.

Acquisition of literacy skills is of particular interest to me as the mother of a bright but incredibly active little engineer and a stereotypically precocious younger daughter. So, I perked up when I read about the Reading Education Assistance Dogs (READ) program. Troubled readers are paired with dogs with sweet dispositions who lay next to […]

My how times have changed since I was in first grade. My first grader has moved on to using a calculator in class to manipulate large numbers. As any dutiful parent would, at night I’ve been coaching him at the 362 words he can concoct using shibboleth, the (perhaps, lost?) language consisting of the 10 […]