(1: Holding the Tail) The mouse is shaking his head and tail as if he is saying no, no, no. Honest, he is. Yesterday, I couldn’t do the mouse in, but that was yesterday. I’ve learned to do other things that I didn’t enjoy. Annihilating a mouse is a yet another one of those unpleasantaries, that I must own up to. Killing mice is a part of life and accepting life is a part of growing up, so it follows that making this mouse give up his ghost is a part of my maturing process. Besides, death is happening everywhere,…
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WILLIAM VON SIEMENS
Sea-cable laid in 1869 transmitting wet lead strip of jerky snaps 18,000 feet below rupturing the reputation of Siemens Brothers, Co. William aboard the ‘Faraday’ galvanometer detecting search-anchor dragging at the depth of Mount Blanc when a spike in the meter led him to the cable and a rash of improvements like closed-steel sheathing surrounding the conductor with hemp and jute like a cozy snake content to wait for a not-yet born meal
PHOTOSYNTHESIS – PART I: THE LIGHT REACTION (AS TOLD BY GRANNY)
— Watch/Download the movie (~75Mb mpeg file) — Description: A short 7 minute claymation film starring a rather busty, arguably homely (even for plasticine) woman with a shrill british accent, who takes the time to detail the biochemistry behind the light reaction of photosynthesis.
BABY’S FIRST DNA MODEL
This is a knitted model of DNA, complete with GC/TA base pairs represented by orange-green bars with a pointed join and blue-yellow bars with a stepped join (because there weren’t enough stitches to make a wave or curve), replicating the standard simplified DNA model. As you can see from the picture, it also makes a good toy insofar as it holds its shape while squished or stretched, because it is stuffed firmly with cotton balls. It was made with two equal black twisted tubes on size US 3 double-pointed needles (see the double-pointed needle tutorial and/or the tutorial on twisted…
2ND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS
eyed with atlantic possibilities far beyond our sensibilities a depth so indigo starfalls time in a recycled surge and flow to obfuscate be wilder wisdom from such limited dimension (an inconceivable expanse of sea) by our gracefoolish linearity (onward ever we cycle persisting because a system can be ordered at the expense of disordering its surroundings) so much randomness rearranged we can never reach from this narrow frame equilibrium (enlightenment) through mere scientific disestablishment destined to be continously reborn into joy reversed, forlorn * * * (REPRINTED FROM ISSUE ONE, JUNE 6th, 2005)
A FABRICATED PAPER: STONERS EAT YOUR BROCCOLI
(This paper was designed by a group of students for a class project, and as such is completely fabricated) TITLE: Stoners eat your broccoli: Folic acid enhances the effects of cannabinoids at behavioral, cellular, and transcriptional levels ABSTRACT: Recent interest in cannabinoid receptors as therapeutic targets has spurred the investigation into the physiochemical responses to their activation. The cannabinoid pathways in mammalian systems of adult male CD1 mice were investigated using a combinatorial approach based on folic acid mediated response. Various tests of cannabimimetic activity of folic acid showed that the combination of folic acid with either AEA (N-arachidonoylethanolamine, ananamide)…
THE CASE FOR THE CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE INDUCTION
ABSTRACT: Recent political efforts to broaden the scope of science education and bring science into the mainstream have generated a great deal of controversy. One of the things that has been sorely missing is the relationship between mathematics and religion. Here we attempt to inject a greater mathematical essence into religion as well as explore one immediate implication, the Immaculate Induction Hypothesis. 1. INTRODUCTION: We focus on the injection of a greater mathematical sensibility within the religious community and examine the resulting implications. In doing so we agree that intelligent design is a valid viewpoint, but ask what this implies.…
UNDERWATER MATCH
A crab might compete with a lobster for grotesqueness rolling back carpets or just have one claw feeding upsidedown in an underwater whirlwind or wearing fancy stripes with plaid but the lobster will just sit there letting the tomfoolery tumble over her backside she’ll do nothing but let her whiskers be taken in time-honored ribbons by the swift dark sea not moving an inch and win by a mile
LIMULUS & CHARLIE
(WINNER OF OUR KEYWORD: EVOLUTION CONTEST) Charlie wears broken glasses held together with tape and toothpicks. He is unemployed and occupies a one-bedroom apartment in Westchester, California, a half-mile northeast of LAX. Charlie eats in his car. His 1991 Nissan Stanza is a mausoleum of fast food, Frito Lay and Little Debbie wrappers. When Charlie was in the sixth grade, some of his classmates took to calling him “blubber butt.” Although the nickname didn’t stick, he has not quite gotten over it. Limulus is a distant relative of the sea spider and one of the oldest creatures in the ocean.…