I'm so glad to be back on Standard Time! And not just because I got an extra hour's sleep! I would gladly give up getting the hour back if I never had to give it up in the first place.

I know a lot of people love DST, including my mother, a night owl. But even my mother hates the idea of year-round DST, because she remembers when they tried it. It ( Read more... )

I know I have owed y'all a real post for years now, but look at this! Right now!

"Photographer Spends 10 Years Capturing 48 Stunning Colors of the Moon" by Jessica Stewart includes photographs of the moon AND sun by Marcella Pace.


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The government shutdown here in the States brought this scene to mind. ( MAJOR SPOILERS for original Planet of the Apes movie )

I cannot believe the news from Boston.

Hugs and prayers for everyone on my flist. I hope you and all your loved ones are okay.

A lot of people are reposting appeals for Kony 2012/Invisible Children. Before you give money or repost, I urge you to read the following:

"Think Twice Before Donating to Kony 2012, the Charitable Meme du Jour" at Jezebel

and

Visible ChildrenVisible Children warns not only that this "charity" spends the vast bulk of its money, but it supports ( Read more... )

This discovery is awesome: Anglo-Saxonist Elaine Treharne, showing students an early printed text of Chaucer, found a Latin poem pasted in back that other people must have seen but ignored. So Prof. Treharne, in a sense, discovered a new, early modern Latin poem, by a woman, to her tutor. Read the article here; it's not long, and lots of fun. ( Read more... )

I've been away from the news the last few days and just heard about the riots in London! Now, of course, I'm trying desperately to remember which of my LJ friends actually live in London. I can't believe the pictures I'm seeing and the news from the web and on the radio.

I hope all of you are okay. I pray that the violence ends soon.

See this entry by bentleywg for a little bit of misinformation accidentally spread by German news.

"Cats of War: The Pentagon's top-secret feline special-operations program, revealed," by Holly Allen and Christopher Beam at Slate. Go look NOW.

From The Ann Arbor News: "The male patient who swallowed rodent poisoning and breathed a toxic, potentially flammable gas is still isolated in his room. . . ."

Srsly? Who knew?

I do feel bad for the patient who took it; I won't speculate on reasons. I hope they can help him.