http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=food-for-thought-into-the

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110909_sediba

This is just about right.

In his book Fire: A Brief History (part of his Cycle of Fire series), Stephen J. Pyne describes a cave in Africa filled with fossilized bones. A horizontal layer of charcoal, ( Read more... )

Perhaps "tan" isn't the right word -- "vulcanized" might be more accurate, though it was too pretty to call it that.

Anyway, one morning years ago, when I was in my early twenties, back in the Asselian stage of the Permian Period, I was making breakfast for myself, and I decided I wanted a friend egg. So I put a skillet on the gas range, added ( Read more... )

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/10/19/savings-experiment-save-big-spend-smart-on-small-appliances/

Nota bene: For you bothered by that use of "animal" for humans, we certainly aren't daisies or icebox mold, nor are we Staphylococcus aureus (although some think we are lower still than the latter). So chill out already, okay ( Read more... )

I remember my second birthday party. My adoptive mother invited parents with children of about my age to it, and ordered a big birthday cake from her favorite bakery for it. Good bakeries were still common then, in the late 1940s, and my adoptive mother's favorite was located over on Rosemead Boulevard. She used to purchase cakes for special ( Read more... )

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Part 3

1Ernest Matthew Mickler, White Trash Cooking (Ten Speed Press, 1986; 978-0898151893; and see http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Jargon-Ernest-Matthew-Mickler/dp/0898151899 [http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Jargon- ( Read more... )

From
Dragon Drive

Volume 2: Eye of the Storm

Book 1: Dragon From the Void

Part 3: My Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School

Chapter 3: “You bastards - you killed Kenny!”“They took Kenny an’ me to Providence General’s ER, which checked us over for injuries an’ so on. I wasn’t in too bad a shape, but Kenny an’ a couple o’ the ( Read more... )