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December 20, 2009 08:19 PM EST --
This post is part of an ongoing series about a trip we took to Spain to ride roller coasters. Here are the previous installments:
Las montañas de España, day "0", getting there . . .
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December 20, 2009 02:21 PM EST --
I usually try not to speak or write about politics. I find the topic distasteful, even when discussing current issues with people I agree with. However I feel almost compelled to write about politics . . .
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December 12, 2009 11:26 AM EST --
This is part of my ongoing series of posts about a 2007 trip we took to the UK to ride roller coasters and see the sights. Here are the previous installments:
Coasting Across the Pond, day "0": . . .
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December 08, 2009 11:09 PM EST --
For quite some time I've been fascinated by the Soba Lounge on Ellsworth, about a half a mile from our house. For years I've looked into its lounge window and thought its comfy-looking leather . . .
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December 02, 2009 07:55 PM EST --
My interest in science extends to all sorts, but of course some sciences captivate me more than others. Geology is one of the sciences I'd say I'm less interested in, but there is one exception--I . . .
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December 02, 2009 12:39 PM EST --
Last night I became very happy with the Scientific American Book Club. Some weeks ago I had ordered a copy of Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth (which may well merit a review when I'm . . .
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December 01, 2009 08:07 PM EST --
This is the second post in an ongoing series about our 2009 trip to Spain, mostly to ride roller coasters. The first post is here .
I have a rather idiosyncratic way of numbering the days I'm . . .
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November 22, 2009 09:39 PM EST --
Entanglement is a phenomenon of quantum mechanics in which distant particles remain somehow mysteriously related to each other long after they were last in contact (in fact, in some cases particles . . .
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November 19, 2009 08:29 PM EST --
Over the past months, Mars has been getting gradually more prominent in the sky. It is well worth observing in its own right, but if you have the patience to watch it carefully over the course of . . .
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November 16, 2009 09:58 PM EST --
This is the continuation of a series of posts describing our trip to the UK to ride roller coasters. The first, describing our travels to England, is here . This post describes our first . . .
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November 11, 2009 10:10 PM EST --
Ever since I was a kid I've enjoyed reading about science. In reading popular science works I developed an appreciation not only for the contemporary state of science but also for its history. Thus . . .
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November 05, 2009 10:21 PM EST --
In the past decade I have traveled several times to Europe to ride roller coasters there. (I would love to extend my reach to other continents, but to date there has been plenty to attract me to . . .
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November 03, 2009 10:51 PM EST --
Penn Circle South in the East Liberty district of Pittsburgh, once considered a blighted area, has recently become something of a restaurant row that we have been exploring this year. One of the . . .
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November 01, 2009 10:39 PM EST --
If one wants to look for particular things in the night sky, one has to pay attention to the time and season. Planets come and go depending on their own orbits. More regular are bodies outside . . .
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October 28, 2009 09:55 PM EDT --
Plum
Though a lot of new restaurants have opened in our area lately, some may be having difficulty in staying afloat. Less than a year after it opened, Richard Chen-- which I reviewed previously . . .
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October 27, 2009 10:28 PM EDT --
Having spent an inordinately long time documenting my coaster travels to Germany and other locations in 2006, I now soldier on to describe another international trip I took--this one a week spent in Britain, . . .
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October 27, 2009 09:08 AM EDT --
I guess somebody at Microsoft who didn't know what Family Guy was out went and watched some episodes and decided that form of humor is not "a fit with the Windows brand." I bet a lot . . .
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October 26, 2009 07:44 PM EDT --
I ran across a very interesting article in a recent issue of Science News . Two male squirrel monkeys, which ordinarily cannot detect the difference between red and green, were given a gene . . .
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October 18, 2009 09:47 PM EDT --
This is the final article in a series, in which I describe and photograph my neighborhood as I walk through it in different seasons. ( Here is the first , here is the second , and here is the . . .
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October 17, 2009 05:05 PM EDT --
Sometimes I think there are simply too many restaurants to visit in our area, particularly when you consider those we want to revisit along with those we have not yet gotten to. We typically go . . .
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