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Category Archives: Articles of the Acid Queen
Museums Are Neat
Short list of things I like*: Museums Rocks Google-ing shit That list set me to brainstorming a blog post that would forward a perfect pairing of objectives. Said post must be marginally interesting while seeding the reader with an unstoppable … Continue reading
The Long Tail of Hardware
I just read an interesting dissertation by Leah Buechley and Benjamin Mako Hill from MIT about diy culture as it relates to electrical engineering. “… when media is easy to create, publish and distribute, production and consumption decentralize. While the … Continue reading
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Tagged arduino, Buechley, design, Engineering, lilypad, MIT, open source hardware
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Census Day
The census results are in! Now we know exactly how many seats in congress are needed to fairly represent Bikini Bottom. OK, you got me. It wasn’t that kind of census. I’m talking about the Census of Marine Life, the … Continue reading
Fermentation… on Acid!
Here’s the deal, I bought a food processor a few months ago and the joys of shredding still seem fresh and new. This novel invention combined with easy access to the bountiful harvests of my local and beloved CostCo results … Continue reading
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Tagged acid, costco, fermentation, kimchi, lactic acid, pickles, sauerkraut
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The Great Walrus Haulout of 2010
In what can only be described as yet another depressing harbinger of doom, the Pacific walruses in the normally frigid Chukchi Sea have decided, “everybody out.” The USGS has been monitoring the Arctic walruses’ movements, foraging areas, and sea ice … Continue reading
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Tagged bucket, bukkit, Chukchi Sea, climate change, haulout, sea ice, walrus
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Industrial Evolution
For all of those US based readers and listeners, I salute your labors on this day. The celebration of Labor Day dates back to 1894, something about Grover Cleveland trying to quell labor riots… we get the day off and … Continue reading
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Tagged babbage, computers, industrial revolution, jacquard loom, lovelace, punchcard
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Nuisance to Cash Cow
Trichosurus vulpecula, the brushtailed possum, is native to Australia and was introduced to New Zealand during the 1800s with the ever popular notion of establishing a lucrative fur trade. Shockingly, the buggers got loose. Wait a few years and … Continue reading
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Tagged craftiness, invasive species, possum, possum yarn, yarn
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Roses are red, oceans are blue…
OK, I don’t know much about flowers, but lively oceans aren’t typically blue, they’re green-ish. Primary producers (in normal marine environments) need to photosynthesize, which involves a healthy dollop of chlorophyll. Trivial fun fact suitable for printing on the side … Continue reading
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Tagged diatoms, hurricanes, oceanography, photosynthesis
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Oil, it’s whats for dinner
Though people like to refer to their cars as gas guzzlers, organisms that eat alkanes more literally do indeed exist. They are also media whores. Yes, oil consuming microbes have been in the spotlight quite a bit these recent days … Continue reading
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Tagged alkanivorax, bioremediation, dead zone, oil spill
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Academic Gluttony
A grateful holder of gainful employ for almost exactly one year now, I’ve been more or less successful in temporarily quieting the cries of unemployment anxiety in a world where I am utterly over or under qualified to do most … Continue reading