This was just one of the accident/near-miss investigations I read from the RAIB site, thanks to Mike D sending me the link. It’s an excellent example (so were others, but this one had colored images enough to really “feel” the whole accident and its precursors on both the train side and the signallers’ side.) Read More…
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More plants, a view or two…
Depending on what the software lets me do, this time. Here’s a plant I’ve seen in the wet areas, but hadn’t identified even to genus before. I’m sure this is an Echinodorus, one of the water-plantains, but not sure of the species yet. We saw it in the “swamp overflow” that had actually had water Read More…
Fields, woods, and a Vulture
I forgot to put this one in, the other day. In my own nomenclature, this is Mama Undertaker who is quite concerned about the human taking pictures of her family, peering around at me with a very suspicious expression. Over the past few days, we’ve been down to and through the woods (I went only Read More…
Flower, Flower, in the field…
Last spring we discovered a new-to-us non-native flower growing on the place, several patches of Scarlet Pimpernel (which in Texas look orange, not scarlet, but do have striking magenta down near the ovary. It looked like this: Today, R- found a similar looking flower on a different-looking plant, and so far we’re uncertain Read More…
Sticking the Landing: SpaceX
SpaceX deserves its own post here, to say “YAY!! Congratulations!” for sticking the landing on the barge today. This is my favorite video of the flight so far: http://tinyurl.com/zlcf38g Boo hiss to those who celebrated the four failures and the ones who today (on Twitter, for instance) claimed the landing was just reverse video. No, Read More…
Done
Well, probably. Sortakinda done. At 1:30 this afternoon, I made my final staggering plunge through the muck and mire to the finish line, having untangled various tangles and discovered yet more typos. I’d been up until 2:30 am Friday morning (NOT, mutter mutter, going out to photograph peak bluebonnets and plains nipple cactus, mutter mutter) Read More…
Monday Science on Twitter
A few more science accounts to follow on Twitter. Fascinating views of our planet from space, and how these data are used down below: https://twitter.com/NASAEarthData. Fascinating views of dwarf planet Ceres: https://twitter.com/NASA_Dawn. Variety of interesting geological bits and pieces at the US Geological Service account; today it’s induced seismicity. https://twitter.com/USGS Interested in monarch migration? Join Read More…
Implants and Implications
All the Vatta books include characters who have cranial implants that enhance their mental abilities and characters who are opposed to implants as a form of “humodification” that makes the user less human and more machine. Having or not having an implant creates social expectations and has legal implications as well. Not all implants are Read More…
Trifling Humor
This is a link to a Storify of Twitter posts yesterday and…it’s hilarious. 7FZrl$Jn602ErEJ(BX Or, if you like long URLs: https://storify.com/lizrothjohnson/biologistspacefacts?utm_content=storify-pingback&utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=&awesm=sfy.co_a0x2Q&utm_medium=sfy.co-twitter
Science Twitter Accounts at SXSW
A list of science accounts on Twitter for SXS. No, I haven’t checked them all out yet, but wow–sure appreciate @laurahelmuth for getting this list together. I’ll be posting the reference a few other places, too. https://twitter.com/laurahelmuth/lists/sciencetwitterforsxsw/members