A farm girl and poet from Chardon, Ohio, [Grace] Butcher won the national championship for 880 yards in 1958. In 1976, just past her 40th birthday, she made a solo 2,500-mile motorcycle trip through New England, and wrote a feature article for Sports Illustrated. In it she noted, "What life is for, if it is for anything, is to find out what you do ( Read more... )

Rattle has just published as its Sunday poem "Look at that, you son of a bitch" (the title comes from the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who threw a javelin on the moon 45 years and a few days ago ( Read more... )

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I was going to read a picture book about Marie Curie during dinner, but this line on the very first page stopped me ( Read more... )

This entry is mainly me stashing the links where I'll find them again, but I know they'll be of interest to some others of you reading:

There's a new comic book, The lives of Marie Curie, by Swiss cartoonist Fiami. Looks like it's available in both English and French ( Read more... )

The May-June issue of my alumni magazine has a feature on Jeannette Piccard. Three excerpts that will resonate among you, for different reasons among you:

An interviewer read from [Piccard's] preflight checklist, which included the task "wipe windows." He smiled at her and said, “Everything changes but the eternally feminine ( Read more... )

space shuttle crew a la Star Trek

Inklings/DLS materials on display at the Nashville Public Library

my reading last Friday

Javier Sicilia stops writing poetry

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http://improbable.com/2010/09/17/a-gallery-of-knitted-bacteria/

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/science-tattoo-emporium/

(It's gonna become a book. If you have one to share, the submission deadline is October 1.)

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