Archive | February, 2009
COYOTE UGLY – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF AN URBAN KIND

COYOTE UGLY – CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF AN URBAN KIND

By on February 8, 2009 in Minnesota, What We Know

What was that? Image by Chris Seufert via Flickr All kinds of wildlife roadkill are a predictable occurrence on Minnesota roads.  It’s not unusual to observe whitetail deer, raccoons, Canada geese, and ducks as well as domestic animals and assorted vermin in or at the side of the road.  Still, one morning as I was [...]

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HERE’S A POTENTIAL APPOINTEE WHO PROBABLY PAYS HIS TAXES

HERE’S A POTENTIAL APPOINTEE WHO PROBABLY PAYS HIS TAXES

By on February 5, 2009 in History, What We Know

This post re-blogged via the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web email and KPCC (Southern California Public Radio) News in Brief: Most Americans take their library privileges seriously. A recent Zogby poll found just six out of a hundred people confessed to not returning library books. KPCC’s Special Correspondent Kitty Felde found one library [...]

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Getting Inside Our Heads

Getting Inside Our Heads

By on February 2, 2009 in What We Know

Over twenty years ago, I was introduced to neuroscience and its physiology during a frightening discussion with a neonatologist as we viewed sonograms of my son’s brain.  Premature babies often suffer cranial hemorrhage, and we were looking at a big one through the soft spot in his skull. Image by killermonkeys via Flickr Shock and [...]

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