I took a long lunch break from Overhauling The Room to watch the latest TW (which made me make so many different noises, I can't even) and last week's SPN.

( why, yes, I actually DID get my geek on again )

spnnewsletter, it'd rock if y'all could snag this for the newsletter. Slight spoilers for season 2 overall.

( books and boys and bravery )

My afternoon turned unexpectedly frustrating, but I mostly regained my Zen by getting my geek on. I'm delighted that current finds in archaeology are actually rocking out with insight into various bits of legend, magic spells, and other random stuff.

Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered

Most of y'all probably know the story of Romulus and ( Read more... )

ETA that, yup, I am a 'tard who just posted three times to her own jounal rather than placing the heads up she meant to at the appropriate comms. To my flist, I apologize. And also go to get more coffee because CLEARLY I NEED IT.

dotfic and dodger_winslow, because I adore y'all and hope to keep your hearts from completely breaking over Recent SPN Events, I did a ( Read more... )

ETA that I elaborated a bit more on what I understand about planetary talismans (in a John-specific way) here. Better and better-informed minds than mine may well be able to improve upon this.

I have HOUSE meta to write and HOUSE-related comments to answer. I have my Grim Noir Grimoire (my chatty little guide to SPN herbs and hoo-doo) to wrap up ( Read more... )

Okay. So, let's be clear. The following resources are not to be used for terrorist purposes. Or even to blow up a culvert outside of a high school the way my dad did for a science project when he was a kid because, sure, that kind of thing results in school-wide panic, a grudgingly-given good grade, and a teacher who cries when he quits, but ( Read more... )

New Program to Integrate Archaeology and the Natural ScienceWhen I stepped back from my doctoral program in archaeology to pick up a second bachelor degree in chemistry, there was a pretty understandable WTF? response, particularly from my peers. However, I had become frustrated, in part, because no one could answer the questions I was asking ( Read more... )

ETA a really nice flowchart that illustrates what a redox reaction is; just click on a term there and you'll hop over to some really nice explanations and examples. Oh, hot damn...I knew if I looked hard enough I could find something with this info: Redox Reactions of Pigment in Molten Glass. AWESOME.

So, apparently just hanging out in moonlash_cc's LJ is ( Read more... )

Researchgrrrl, I hear you say warily, we cannot help but fear that in your new love of the totally hot and heart-stoppingly lickable Winchester boys that, well, you have completely lost your shit as evinced by the subject line...perhaps you sustained mild brain damage when inhaling the poison death gas yesterdayFear not, I must hastily reply, because my shit ( Read more... )