This post is dedicated to the misled folks on a 2012 doomsday forum who are using terms like “suspicious” and “creepy” to describe .. well .. a common fungus. They’re musing that the tornado in Joplin “spawned” it … or maybe...
Read MoreA couple of new things related to my Radium Girls post have crossed my path this week, so I thought I’d drop them here for anyone who’s interested. Now, even our crumbling bones will glow forever in the black earth....
Read MoreA selection of my favorite blog posts, articles, videos and photos from the last couple weeks. Best e. coli Explanations Marian Turner over at Nature did a nice job of explaining the biology behind the recent e. coli outbreak in...
Read MoreIn search of a souvenir On a warm August day in 2008, at the busy Helsinki Kauppatori, I was on the hunt for affordable souvenirs that the kids could bring home to Canada. I searched with my stepson, up and down the crowded...
Read MoreCheck out these little guys from my garden. A whole bunch of websites and photo collections identify these as baby European Garden Spiders (Araneus diadematus), but the colour of the babies do not match the adults. My spidey...
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