Sunday, Jan 10, 2010
It's that time of year again when we repent for being bad bloggers and give a quick rundown of the last year.
Tuesday, Jan 5, 2010
One of the things I love about mine and Elliott's relationship is this: every once in a while, one of us will throw out a totally unrealistic idea, and then the other says, yeah, okay, let's do it!
Wednesday, Oct 7, 2009
I wanted to start a tradition of cinnamon/orange rolls for October General Conference, so I spent last week looking at different recipes, deciding at the last minute on one from King Arthur Flour. A lot of butter later, I had these to show for my work.
Monday, Jun 15, 2009
Today's Lunch Break:
The Cost Conundrum, by Atul Gawande
I started to summarize my favorite points from this piece, but I decided against it. Because...you need to read the article in its entirety [1]. It's that good.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Today's Lunch Break:
The evangelical atheists and Mormon anti-evolutionists have joined forces
Those who know me well know that science is a subject very dear to my heart. When given the chance to speak at my graduation convocation for the College of Life Sciences a year ago, I spent my entire alloted time quoting Elder John Widtsoe and Dr. Francis Collins and gushing about the beauty of biology and evolution.
Those who know me well have probably also had me pestering them to check out The Mormon Organon, a blog written by my former BYU professor. The following excerpt is from his latest post, and is today's featured LB article.
Tuesday, Apr 21, 2009
Today's Lunch Break:
Dude, You've Got Problems
A while back I declared I wanted to phase out cleaning chemicals and instead use vinegar, baking soda, etc. for household cleaners. (This isn't totally related to the LB article, but bear with me for a moment.) Elliott is great at supporting me in what I want to do, so of course he was okay with it (especially after I assured him the house wouldn't constantly smell like pickles). In fact, he recently cleaned the bathroom while I wasn't home and used vinegar, even though other cleaners were in the cabinet. But the first thing Elliott said when I made my announcement was, with a big grin, "We're going to be the hippie family, aren't we?"
Friday, Apr 3, 2009
Today's Lunch Break:
Making Ends Meet in the Great Depression
New unemployment figures were released today and it's not pretty. At 8.5% unemployment, we're at the highest rate in 25 years.
The comparison between this recession and the Great Depression of the 1930s is pervasive. But we're at 8.5%. In 1933, unemployment in the US hit 25%. That's three times higher than where we're at now.
Monday, Mar 30, 2009
Today's Lunch Break:
Space storm alert: 90 seconds from catastrophe
While the disaster movies would have you believe that it's going to be an asteroid, nuclear war, or virus outbreak that kills most of us off, it may be nothing less than a case of bad weather.
Well, space weather, that is. A large enough ejection of coronal mass from the sun (a phenomenon often coinciding with solar flares) would disrupt the Earth's magnetic field, induce large currents in wires, melt transformers, knock out continental power grids, and render large sections of our interconnected and electricity-dependant infrastructure completely useless.
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