Science Monday

Science Monday is back! For your reading pleasure:

• Mirror Neuron, Mirror Neuron on the Wall. Who's the most empathic of them all?


• Beauty Knows No Pain, Even by Nanodot Lead Poisoning


• CephaloPod (Ok, so it's not science, but it's darn cute)


• Microbial Methane Farts* Might End the World as We Know It

*Is that a Terry Pratchett novel? Or a cool bandname?

Todd the Vampire

So I'm utterly caught up in J.R. Ward's vampire series and I'm only on the first installment, Dark Lover. I keep laughing out loud at the vampire names though: Wrath (the hero), Tohrment, Rhage, Phury (which I keep reading as "Furry") and Zzadist. And the heroine, a half-breed, is named Beth.

I keep thinking that Beth and Wrath are going to have a baby down the line and she's going to want to name him Todd. Todd the Vampire. Guard your virgins everybody, Todd's got his fangs out and he's ready to rumble.

Eris, Gummy Bears and The Shire. Oh my.

Two posts in two days from me. Can you contain yourself? I just had to post about some fun things I found on the Internets today.

First off, they've named the 10th planet Eris, the Goddess of Discord. I think it suits her prefectly, although I think they should have named her satellite General Disarray instead of Dysnomia.

I have to get me a set of the Gummy Bear Tarot. When you're feeling low, whip out those adorable treats and cheer yourself up. You don't even have to shuffle a spread, just gaze into their cuddly-wuddly faces.

Last but not least, a new housing development in Oregon called The Shire. I'd love to live there, so long as they promised me I wouldn't get sued for violating copyright. (Much thanks to Mara for this one.)

It Makes My Mother So Proud

Yeah, it's been forever since I posted anything. Sorry! I've had a lot going on in my life. I left my job of 13 years and moved to another state. Things are settling down again now so I hope to be posting more often.

Some fun: