Comments | egwenna: Well this, and then, but now.... *pout*

egwenna

Well this, and then, but now.... pout

Aug 04, 2007 09:55

A disorderly mind eventually gets to the point.

I think I followed a link off Kadath's journal, to .... some journal I've been to several times but now can't find a link to. Hmm. I hate when that happens. princejvstin might know what I'm talking about, I know he reads it too ( Read more... )

just life, links, things bookish, science

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robinellen August 4 2007, 15:51:28 UTC

Now that's frustrating!!! I got a bunch of books at the library last week (during my day to myself), and I've already finished all of them (sigh). I guess it's time to go back and try again ;) I like the sound of this one, btw -- though I'll be sure to get the first one!

egwenna August 4 2007, 18:30:15 UTC

I put in another request, pointing out in the comments section that I am looking for book ONE. Hopefully I'll get the right one, and hopefully I'll get a chance to read it before I need to return it.

princejvstin August 4 2007, 16:24:40 UTC

You mean the Brian K. Vaughan series.

Yes, I would be upset if I wound up with the third instead of the first book. I haven't picked up that series yet, although I am tempted.

I'm jealous that your library is so facile that way. The local libraries near me are not very good at all. I haven't been to the central library in downtown Minneapolis, though.

egwenna August 4 2007, 18:35:21 UTC

Yes, that series. And the site was the one with the science name that begins with a Ph...y... something and the pictures are spiders or an octopus or some other critter. Not sure why I'm so completely blank on this today.

The library system around here has had lots of money pumped into it. Once you have your login and password (which you have to set up with the librarian at the desk) you can search, read reviews, write reviews, leave books in your 'bookbag' for later or place requests for them. They call when the book is in, send emails before things are due and you can renew the loan online as well (so long as no one else has requested it). It's very handy!

meadowsweet9 August 4 2007, 20:19:50 UTC

We have a similar system here. Much of it automated, but I love it.

egwenna August 4 2007, 22:45:21 UTC

I think all of the emails are automated. It's a great system.

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meadowsweet9 August 4 2007, 20:18:11 UTC

Gah!

egwenna August 4 2007, 22:44:19 UTC

Exactly.

djinnthespazz August 7 2007, 04:16:29 UTC

Parthenogenesis?

Which lower mammals? Where's the story, I wanna read it!

(and now I have a bit o'Shriekback in my head:

Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
Everybody happy as the dead come home
Big Black Nemesis, parthenogenesis
No one move a muscle as the dead come home...!"

egwenna August 7 2007, 14:01:45 UTC

No.... because it still took two, but the Y chormosome wasn't the deciding factor for sex. Or something like that. It was still be studied. I think they were moles or voles....

When I get back from taking the kids to the park, I'll see if I can find it.

djinnthespazz August 8 2007, 04:27:48 UTC

Don't hurt yourself looking for it. If I'm meant to read it, it'll appear somewhere where I will see it!

egwenna August 8 2007, 15:41:18 UTC

I haven't been able to turn up the article I remember (not avaiable online) but the source was apparently something in Nature Magazine, which also didn't turn up, but I found references to it:

http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/ellsworth/2005/09/encouraging-news-for-y-chromosome.html

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/fyi/020c893302839010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

Now, if I could just find the mice or moles or whatever little rodent it was they thought was starting to do without...

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