Autumn.
I don’t get to touch it much these days. I didn’t even get to stop and breathe in the colours last week, when the foliage was at its glowing peak; and now it’s fading, every shade melting to brown.
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland [...]
“Women really do prefer pink, researchers say.”
I’ll first note that I haven’t (yet) read the study this article references myself. However, as represented in this article from Reuters, this is some icky pseudoscience which apparently fails to take into account that the pink = femininity association is historically a very recent development, arising sometime [...]
New insight into chronic fatigue, from The Economist. (Link via The New Shelton Wet/Dry.)
I can’t agree with the conclusion of this article on the functionality of deception in autistic versus neurotypical brains, but the points the author makes about the presence or absence of the ability to deceive in (a)typical brain types are well worth [...]
“For the first time, an inhabited island has disappeared beneath rising seas.”
What a way to wrap up the holiday season. Every bit as sobering as 2004’s tsunami in the Indian Ocean: less immediately heart-rending, perhaps, but with clearer long-term global consequences.
I am a science geek at heart. I don’t have the training I need to understand everything I want to — but I suspect that would still be true if I had PhDs in biology, physics, chemistry, ecology, and several others. So I confess, the stuff that makes me say squee isn’t some ubercool blog [...]
Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night shall stay this blogger from her appointed posting.
Wait, that should be for National Blog Post Office Month, shouldn’t it? I get the two confused.
National Blog Posting Month (abbreviated NaBloPoMo) is a commitment (or at least a goal) to post daily to one’s blog for the month [...]
Add one item to my list of things I hope to see or do before I die: the tiankeng of China. These sinkholes are mindbogglingly huge, and apparently were known to very few people, even within China, until the last decade.
This is the planet our species evolved on, and it still manages to stagger [...]