Books are always better than the movie. I loved the Life of Pi movie, so I was surprised that the book could be SO much better than the most excellent movie. Written by Yann Martel, the story is a fantasy tale of a boy who is shipwrecked and shares a lifeboat with a grown Bengal […]
Next Sunday, HBO begins season 3 of Game of Thrones. The show is based on George RR Martin’s epic Song of Fire and Ice series. I ran across the first episode as HBO whets our appetite for the show. The first episode is done very well: It introduces all major characters with their most strengths
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I have a very active mint plant in my garden. It was planted a year ago and although it produced spindly shoots throughout winter, it is very happy to feel spring in the air. After spending several hours in my garden (weeding, watering, wacking) I cut back the sad winter sprigs of mint along with
Our aurora lecture this morning, courtesy of the Geophysical Institute, focused on the magnetic field in generating the sky event. There is a lot of research bring done on the aurora, and where better than it to be done than northern Alaska? We visited the Institute for Arctic Biology, Large Animal Research Center. It, like
We visited Poker Flats Research Range which is part of the geophysical institute (university of Alaska, Fairbanks). Here, they set off rockets for weather and atmospheric research. Our lecturer, Don Hampton, an optics guy, was very thorough in his description of their research function. He had a 1950s version and a current day version of
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