From a student's Chapter 2 questions.

What is one unreactive element?

One uncreative element is helium.

So while we're on the subject of Dr. Who...  I love my AP Bio class.  We use the projector a lot for my PowerPoints, and ever since the beginning of the year it always starts with this message, PLEASE CLEAN THE FILTER.  Today when I walked into the classroom there was a message on the board for me:

Do not clean the filter.  The universe will implode ( Read more... )

 Libera nos, Domine!  What a mess we have made of things...  Be the strength of our arms, in embrace not in swords, that we may all come to be one in You.

 So it turns out wonderful bookstore is attached to a wonderful parish... 

Hey, I can cook a banana while I work at my computer.  Hey, I can cook a banana with my computer!

Squirrels Outwit Rattlesnakes in Infrared

Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News

Like Wile E. Coyote's hapless quest to catch the Roadrunner, rattlesnakes have attempted to catch California ground squirrels for well over a million years, and now scientists know one reason why the squirrels usually win.
Their tails freak out the snakes, researchers report in ( Read more... )

Efts grow into newts.
Elvers grow into eels.
Crossword puzzle writers grow into...something too smart for their own good.

Lavendar and Molemeat are glowing so much, I think I'm starting to tan.  Less than two weeks till the wedding!

"Yes, Minister" - though not exactly a cure for political cynicism - is dreadfully funny.

It's the time of year for long-awaited-finally-releaseds.  As in: first the new Naruto episodes (old friends! no more filler!!) and now Benedict XVI's Apostolic Exhortation following the Synod on the Eucharist, Sacramentum Caritatis!  Have seen the first several episodes of the former.  Have not yet read the latter, but heard an excellent talk ( Read more... )