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Breeding the nutrients out of our food . The Free Help Guy . The history of food , vertically. I am a superorganism .  I'm not sur...

This long overdue post is a report on P's new cabin!  I finally managed to get down to see it when dad was in town a couple of weeks ago...

T and I often don't share the same taste in movies.  He tends towards special effects, superheroes, sci-fi/fantasy, good guy/bad guy stu...

I had no plans to go see Rock of Ages , but my friend H texted me last week and said she had won free tickets.  Her boyfriend isn't in...

Goal #21: clean out the freezer. A freezer is not a complicated thing.  However, for years I viewed it as nothing more than a storage faci...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a rare beast - it's a coming of age story that holds its appeal with viewers beyond the teenage cr...

Trouble on the mountain . The world's smallest movie . Baseball's most durable bat boy . Tetris : the latest cure for amblyopi...

I was chopping up strawberries to make strawberry ice cream yesterday, and I came across a strawberry which I would normally consider to be ...

Goal #20: clean my condo. The last couple of weeks have been a little hectic, and it shows when you look around my dwelling quarters.  The...

Here's something random that I love about Powell Hall: every hair gets its own armrests - that's right, two of them.  That means tha...