volcanoes — 2013 — The 21st Century Matriarch

The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles and websites I found this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.

This is what your grocery store looks like without bees - Lots of empty bins in the produce section

Famous Scifi And Fantasy Authors In Their Workspaces - Keep the dates in mind. How many of these authors do you recognize?

Extremely Detailed Large Scale Paintings of Bugs - Wonderful detail is shown in these images.

Raw Strawberry Tart - I want to try the crust even if I don’t make the strawberry filling! It’s made with nuts, oats, raisins, flax seed, and vanilla held together with date paste.

Chemical in Antibacterial Soap Fed to Nursing Rats Harms Offspring, Study Finds - I am throwing away everything in my house that contains triclocarban. This study was just the latest in a steady stream of studies that showed negative effects.

12 New Volcanoes Discovered in Alaska - And still a lot more to learn about them.

Constantly Changing Majestic Beauty of Mount Fuji - Is this the most photographed and painted mountain in the world? It has all the qualities to make it so.

RCP Database 2.0 - The ‘Compare’ tab of this site allows users to select from several variables that impact climate and then view what happens to the ‘Representative Concentration Pathways’ with that variable change. This was one of the references in the Climate Literacy course I am taking on Coursera.

Man's Parkinson's disease symptoms vanish with the push of a button - Truly amazing results of deep brain stimulation for the person.

How technology is destroying jobs - From Technology Review. Lots of comments too.

Genetically Modified Fashion - Fluorescent silk from genetically engineered silkworms. Is this something we need?

The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles and websites I found this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.

Have You Ever Heard Virginia Woolf Speak? - A few minutes from a radio broadcast made in 1937.

Two Volcanoes Erupting in Alaska: Scientists Are Monitoring and Providing Alerts On Pavlof and Cleveland Volcanoes - Broader than just about the two eruptions….explains the way the USGS monitors volcanoes overall

Technique to Detect Breast Cancer in Urine Developed - Wouldn’t it be wonderful if this really works and can replace routine mammograms?

Image gallery: frost - From the Weather and Climate page of the Royal Meteorological Society. Use the frame on the left to look at other image galleries. There is also an interesting animation of Hurricane Katrina under ‘Resources’

Cicada Swarmageddon! - Our area of Maryland is on the edge of Brood II of the 17-year cicada which is due to make an appearance this year. We haven’t seen or heard any yet but I enjoyed learning about the less visible parts of the insect’s lifecycle in this video.

Picnicking Through the Ages - We are more likely to use an ice chest and canvas tote rather than a basket….find a picnic table in a park rather than spread a blanket. We still enjoy eating outdoors as we travel. Recently it appears that parks are encouraging people to take home their own trash rather than providing trash cans...a return to pre-park etiquette of picnicking.

First Drug to Significantly Improve Heart Failure Mortality in Over a Decade - Coenzyme Q10….a supplement that is a drug. And other drugs for heart failure depleting the Coenzyme Q10 that the body makes on its own….maybe a feedback loop that, over time, actually made those drugs less helpful to the individual with heart failure.

Resources for Scenario Planning and Futures Thinking - From Richard Watson…pointers to two recent papers. The summary graphics are thought provoking. I spent more time on the second paper - the Cyber Game Board.

Skin Health for all - Confronting the Silent tragedy of Skin Disease - Video of a lecture given at Royal Society of Chemistry earlier this year.

Little White and the Three Toxins - A new species of mushroom…a new toxin?