Get Thee to an RSS Reader

A few weeks ago my friend/former coworker Linda wrote about Google Reader on her new blog. I had certainly heard of Google Reader before, but had no idea why I’d want to use it until I read this post. It suddenly clicked that it was solution to my problem of not being able to keep [...]

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Bacteriophages

This morning I was listening to the April 4 episode of NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday (as a podcast on my iPod of course), where one topic discussed was “Using ‘Phage’ Viruses to Help Fight Infection.”
Most of us are probably at least somewhat familiar with the issues of “superbugs,” those bacteria that are [...]

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Sudoku Obsession

I don’t even really remember how it happened. Was it a puzzle in the newspaper? Did someone tell me about it? Did I see something about it on TV? I have no idea, but by sometime in 2005 I was working on my obsession with sudoku.
I’ve always enjoyed logic problems, so this was really just [...]

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Baseball’s Here!

Once again, this post was started over a week ago as “Opening Day Draws Near” or something to that effect, but I just haven’t felt like doing much of anything for the last few weeks. I’m still getting over this cold or flu I came down with three weeks ago, but it’s finally nearly gone. [...]

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