A welcome to friends who are coming over from Facebook…

by | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal

After Facebook’s latest shenanigans, the Timeline stuff, and the possibility that they may ‘lock’ access to past files, so that, for instance, if you loaded a picture in 2011, you might not be able to remove it—a situation hinted at in the...

Catseye—a supernova shines again.

by | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal

supernova shines again That’s really traveling, that energy…. I don’t know if you’ve been catching How the Universe Works on the Discovery networks, but it’s really one of the best in a long time.

Gluten-free diners on the rise? Maybe hybrid wheat?

by | Aug 3, 2012 | Journal

Gluten-free? Wheat is one of the most ‘altered’ food crops since ancient times…so hybridization is nothing new, but this is an interesting study, and points out one of the problems with genetic alteration (in this case, not genetic alteration in the...