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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

brdgt

9:56a Science Tuesday - Marathons, Fathers, and Tsunamis Well: A Marathon Run in the Slow Lane By TARA PARKER-POPE, The New York Times, November 3, 2009 After a 10-kilometer road race this summer, a friend apologized for missing me at the finish line. The truth was, she hadn’t lost me in the crowd. She just didn’t wait long enough. I’m a slow runner. A really slow runner. In that field of 625, I finished in 619th place. There was a time when I was embarrassed by my painfully slow pace, but not anymore. Since I began training for a marathon this spring, I’ve discovered that the view is a lot more interesting in the back of the pack. ( Read More ) Fathers Gain Respect From Experts (and Mothers) By LAURIE TARKAN, The New York Times, November 3, 2009 It used to irk Melissa Calapini when her 3-year-old daughter, Haley, hung around her father while he fixed his cars. Ms. Calapini thought there were more enriching things the little girl could be doing with her time. But since the couple attended a parenting course — to save their relationship, which had become overwhelmed by arguments about rearing their children — Ms. Calapini has had a change of heart. Now she encourages the father-daughter car talk. “Daddy’s bonding time with his girls is working on cars,” said Ms. Calapini, of Olivehurst, Calif. “He has his own way of communicating with them, and that’s O.K.” As much as mothers want their partners to be involved with their children, experts say they often unintentionally discourage men from doing so. Because mothering is their realm, some women micromanage fathers and expect them to do things their way, said Marsha Kline Pruett, a professor at the Smith College School for Social Work at Smith College and a co-author of the new book “Partnership Parenting,” with her husband, the child psychiatrist Dr. Kyle Pruett (Da Capo Press). ( Read More ) In the Mediterranean, Killer Tsunamis From an Ancient Eruption By WILLIAM J. BROAD, The New York Times, November 3, 2009 The massive eruption of the Thera volcano in the Aegean Sea more than 3,000 years ago produced killer waves that raced across hundreds of miles of the Eastern Mediterranean to inundate the area that is now Israel and probably other coastal sites, a team of scientists has found. The team, writing in the October issue of Geology, said the new evidence suggested that giant tsunamis from the catastrophic eruption hit “coastal sites across the Eastern Mediterranean littoral.” Tsunamis are giant waves that can crash into shore, rearrange the seabed, inundate vast areas of land and carry terrestrial material out to sea. ( Read More ) current mood: busy current music: Pretty Lights - Finally Moving Remix

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Monday, November 2nd, 2009

deedop

9:54a Halloween! Yay, Halloween! Past years have been a bit of a let down, but this one was a keeper. We had a great crowd at the Penguin, and sang to the wee hours. As for our costumes.... I took a TON of pictures at the Penguin, and put them into a gallery on our Vox Populi Facebook page. You can check them out here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=339833&id=291592525472&ref=mf (Since it's a Fan Page, it's viewable to everyone.... but hey, why not fan us?)

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Saturday, October 31st, 2009

platter

1:02a be the mischief you want to see in the world! hell yes!!! halloween bitches!!! Gonna wander the streets of West Hollywood and shake hands with strategically naked gay men in face paint. Is time changing this weekend? Two costumes: Crow hoodie went well at Trunk show with Sussan. My artsy smoke one will just be fun to wear. HAPPY BIRTHDAY FRANK!! Just want to get that out there :) I love halloween <3 current mood: excited

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Friday, October 30th, 2009

deedop

3:26p BIG HONKIN Halloween Reminder! Dave and I are KJing Halloween night at the Penguin! We have our costumes figured out but they are TOP SEKRIT. I will however give you BIG HONKIN hints. Dave's costume is very much appropriate for Halloween AND appropriate for a KJ. It involves green. My costume involves red. Other times of the year, I stay dead. Halloween Karaoke at the Penguin 9pm - 2am SE 17th & Tacoma in Sellwood

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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

brdgt

11:31a Science Tuesday - Johnstown Flood, Dinosaurs, Dopamine, Human Sacrifice, and Cancer Observatory: Research at the Source of a Pennsylvania Flood By HENRY FOUNTAIN, The New York Times, October 27, 2009 Like many people who come to Johnstown, Pa., Carrie Davis Todd, a hydrologist who was hired to teach at a local university a little over a year ago, was curious about the great Johnstown Flood of 1889, in which 2,209 people were killed when a dam failed 14 miles away. “One of the first things I did was go out and look at the dam site,” Dr. Davis Todd said. The lake behind the dam held a huge volume of water that roared down the winding course of the Little Conemaugh River before slamming into Johnstown in one of the worst disasters in American history. While there were many witness accounts of the dam failure and the torrent of water that ensued, Dr. Davis Todd, an assistant professor of geology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, was surprised to find that the beginnings of the flood had never been rigorously assessed. ( Read More ) Observatory: Two-Pound Dinosaur Holds North American Record By HENRY FOUNTAIN, The New York Times, October 27, 2009 Small dinosaurs are big these days. Researchers recently announced the discovery of a tiny prototype of a Tyrannosaurus from China. Now paleontologists are reporting the smallest dinosaur ever found in North America. The animal, Fruitadens haagarorum, had a body length of about 30 inches and weighed an estimated 2 pounds. ( Read More ) CT scan, left, of a female skull at a burial site at Ur. Women were buried with elaborate adornments, right, and warriors with their weapons. At Ur, Ritual Deaths That Were Anything but Serene By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, The New York Times, October 27, 2009 A new examination of skulls from the royal cemetery at Ur, discovered in Iraq almost a century ago, appears to support a more grisly interpretation than before of human sacrifices associated with elite burials in ancient Mesopotamia, archaeologists say. Palace attendants, as part of royal mortuary ritual, were not dosed with poison to meet a rather serene death. Instead, a sharp instrument, a pike perhaps, was driven into their heads. ( Read More ) Basics: A Molecule of Motivation, Dopamine Excels at Its Task By NATALIE ANGIER, The New York Times, October 27, 2009 If you’ve ever had a problem with rodents and woken up to find that mice had chewed their way through the Cheerios, the Famous Amos, three packages of Ramen noodles, and even that carton of baker’s yeast you had bought in a fit of “Ladies of the Canyon” wistfulness, you will appreciate just how freakish is the strain of laboratory mouse that lacks all motivation to eat. The mouse is physically capable of eating. It still likes the taste of food. Put a kibble in its mouth, and it will chew and swallow, all the while wriggling its nose in apparent rodent satisfaction. Yet left on its own, the mouse will not rouse itself for dinner. The mere thought of walking across the cage and lifting food pellets from the bowl fills it with overwhelming apathy. What is the point, really, of all this ingesting and excreting? Why bother? Days pass, the mouse doesn’t eat, it hardly moves, and within a couple of weeks, it has starved itself to death. Behind the rodent’s fatal case of ennui is a severe deficit of dopamine, one of the essential signaling molecules in the brain. Dopamine has lately become quite fashionable, today’s “it” neurotransmitter, just as serotonin was “it” in the Prozac-laced ’90s. ( Read More ) Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How? By GINA KOLATA, The New York Times, October 27, 2009 Call it the arrow of cancer. Like the arrow of time, it was supposed to point in one direction. Cancers grew and worsened. But as a paper in The Journal of the American Medical Association noted last week, data from more than two decades of screening for breast and prostate cancer call that view into question. Besides finding tumors that would be lethal if left untreated, screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear. ( Read More ) current mood: geeky current music: Mates of State - For the Actor

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Sunday, October 25th, 2009

platter

11:32p Sweetheart,you are not my friend. I'm leaving it at that... I would like Andrew WK to be my gauge of how hard I party. Chances are, he would tell me to take it easy. Ryan Ross makes me sleepy. Wrapping things to give away. Almost done with my fucking costume. Hells yeah its should work out, now I just need to make sure it fits around my boobs and I should be in business. Tape is the great equalizer if it doesn't. 5 dollars in downtown and haggling till you piss the guy off can score you a bargain and blacklist you at the same time. current mood: sleepy

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