Posting something like this on LJ, I mean ( Read more... )

The current Word is "kyrptonite," have you noticed? Everything is "noun kryptonite" for example an article in Book Riot: "Genre Kryptonite: When Authors Read Audiobooks ( Read more... )

She says it better ( Read more... )

But we're only getting it a day or two at a time, interspersed with stubborn, horrible Winter! In the form of low temperatures. But today, it's glorious Spring. I spent an hour and a half outside raking the leaves and twigs out of my front yard flower beds. There is now a huge pile of leaves in the middle of the yard, which are going to be mowed to ( Read more... )

When I was growing up in the 50s, photographs weren't all that common. I have quite a few from growing up, but nowhere NEAR the number that kids today will have - assuming the media the photos are saved on survives until their adulthood. Anyway, the earliest ones of me are all black & white, and most have those ragged edges. I don't have a lot of ( Read more... )

What medieval Europe did with its teenagers. I admit, there may have been a couple of times I would have been willing to at least *look into* the possibility of paying someone to take my son off my hands, giving him board and room in exchange for an apprenticeship in a trade (the important part being GETTING HIM OUT OF MY HAIR) but this apparently ( Read more... )

A TED talk: Chris Hadfield: What I Learned from Going Blind in Space. One of my real, live heroes. This is about the best way to spend 20 minutes on a Sunday morning I can think of.

ETA: Out of Body: Reading Gender Through Womens Fiction found through Book Riot. It's from March 12; I don't know how I missed it but it's *very* interesting and gave ( Read more... )

It don't get any geekier than this. This brings back college science hall nostalgia, big-time. Not that I ever took anything that advanced. I was doing well to pass my one Physics class!

I see nothing about this idea that would make it impossible. There are lots of resource and waste issues to contend with, but we have the knowledge and creativity to solve those, I'm sure. And as with space exploration, I think there will be beneficial by-products in the form of real-life experience of managing a closed system - which we're not ( Read more... )

When water flows uphill: the Leidenfrost Effect.

I found this at This Is Colossal.