I'd look this up but I'm on my phone. Anyone know what this plant is? Buckwheat relative? Toxic?
Friday, June 22, 2012
diversity
As you might have noticed, I have been sending geographilic photos I've taken from flickr to this blog, but not a lot else lately.
I've got the toddler running me exhausted, and though I said I was going to post "sense of wonder" kind of things here, he's mostly wondrous about garbage trucks these days, so I'm trying to decide how to frame that.
In the meantime, there's this fascinating spread of language video. It's mostly visual, so not vision-impaired friendly, but works well without sound:
I love this sort of thing.
I note that on the phoneme map, though Africa has high diversity for the most part, Madagascar doesn't, which makes sense given it was mostly populated from southeast Asia.
Audrey, my family-member-for-whom-there-is-no-real-label, my son's other mother, my husband's other partner, gave me a membership with 23andme for my birthday this year, and it's fabulous and fun. I found out that the brownness on my mom's side of my family didn't come from Africa, South Asia, or the Americas, but my entire gene pile seems to be European. This doesn't really solve a mystery, as I still wonder why she was so brown, as was my grandmother, but it does clear up "where does the brown come from?" a bit, in that we know where it's not from, now.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Saturday, May 12, 2012
San Francisco Bay from Richmond-San Rafael Bridge
It's one of those perfect spring days here. All the Claritin in the world won't help.
Friday, May 04, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over
Space Shuttle Discovery DC Fly-Over - I teared up. I'll miss the shuttles. Let's keep exploring, on Earth and in space.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
Over nachtelijk Europa.
Over nachtelijk Europa. Op deze momenten kun je ISS zien. Beneden nog/al donker, zon op het station. www.heavens-above.com of volg @twisst
Originally uploaded by André Kuipers.
I really don't know why my first thought was the campfire song, Barges:
"Out of my window looking through the night I can see the barges' flickering lights.
Silently flows the water to the sea and the barges too flow silently.
Barges, I would like to go with you, I would like to sail the ocean blue.
Barges, is there treasure in your hold? Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?
Sunday, April 01, 2012
I hope this protects them from climate change
Film maker and writer Terry Jones discovers a colony of penguins, which are unlike any other penguins in the world.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
driving across Australia, west to east
A friend of mine is driving across Australia, and taking photos as he goes. He'll go through the area where I lived, briefly, an amazing area that reminds me a lot of central California, too. This shot is of the Nullarbor Plains, a vast desert, with one of the longest, straighest stretches of road and railroad track in the world.
More of his pictures are here, including the huge goldmine right on the edge of the town of Kalgoorlie: pics
More of his pictures are here, including the huge goldmine right on the edge of the town of Kalgoorlie: pics
Friday, March 30, 2012
Friday, March 09, 2012
Visual weather report for Fremont, CA 94538
Visual weather report for Fremont, CA 94538 March 9, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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.@giagia @angie_coiro having an 11-month-old toddler is a huge job, but he is fabulous.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
over the Palace of Fine Arts
As much as I hate having to schlep across San Francisco to get there, the Palace of Fine Arts and its lagoon are among my favorite places in the area. It's just lovely, and has neat history, and I've been visiting it most of my life. I'll be sad when the Exploratorium moves to the waterfront at the Embarcadero, just because fewer people will incidentally be exposed to the Palace of Fine Arts.
Here's a neat video from the air, from a little bitty airship, so you can see how lovely it is.
Here's a neat video from the air, from a little bitty airship, so you can see how lovely it is.
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