Thursday, March 29, 2007

The Battery Park turkey lives!

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Late last November, I was surprised to find a large, healthy looking turkey calmly enjoying the sun in Battery Park, at the southern tip o...
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Best subway ad of the year, so far:

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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

"Duck!" "Where?"

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Flying over the North Cove, Battery Park City breakwater: Splashdown:
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Right! The lizard-fish conversion. Very easy.

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We have good clues about how fish evolved into land-dwelling animals, but how about those great aquatic reptiles of the Mesozoic, the ichth...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Three cheers for Joe Queenan.

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From his op-ed, "Life in the Mean Seats", in today's New York Times , discussing proposals to ban booing (I'm not making t...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Harbinger

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A few days before tonight's equinox, I saw this fellow above my path through the small wooded area adjoining the South Cove at Battery P...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

One galaxy, over easy.

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This image, taken from Astronomy Picture of the Day , is of a nearby (only 60 million or so light years) group of galaxies called Hickson 44...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

Is blogging like baseball?

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There's an interesting parallel between this post on blogging and marketing by Kathy Sierra (found through a link posted by bEnder on ...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Chicken soup for the universe.

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We may have been taught that the universe is 99.99...% hard vacuum, but according to this New Scientist article, which I found through a l...

It's looking grim for the Mets.

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OK, they were split squad games, but losing to the Nats 13-1 and the Orioles 9-0 looks awful in any event. I'm not so worried about Par...

Silly science Saturday redux.

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Bad Astronomy links to a "snarky celebrity site" (and I link to Bad Astro linking thus; so does the Great Chain of Being advance ...

Someone in Alameda, California asks ...

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... "how to get along with a self-absorbed man". I'm sure s/he left this site just as perplexed as when s/he arrived.
Monday, March 12, 2007

A Dutch subject, but in a French style.

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This photo of Holland America Lines' Noordam , making her way at twilight past Staten Island towards the Narrows and the ocean, taken fr...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Sal's retired, but the Erie Canal still hauls freight.

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I've got a mule, and her name is Sal, Fifteen miles on the Erie Canal. She's a good ol' worker an' a good ol' pal, Fifte...

The headline is comforting ...

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... but the story beneath it is a bit unsettling. Consider how fortunate was the Tunguska event. If the most likely thing had happened, th...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Postscript to "Silly science Saturday"

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As a follow-up to my earlier post about the Fair Education Foundation and its argument concerning the "Kabbalistic" foundations o...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Does the spring training record matter?

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The conventional wisdom seems to be, "Not much." But, here I am, just shy of a week into the Grapefruit League season, pondering ...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Highly recommended reading.

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In my immediately previous post, I touched on a particular hobby-horse of mine, which is how the terms "liberal" and "conserv...
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Friday, March 02, 2007

Is corporate greenery undemocratic?

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Since the news about the TXU deal came out, I've been waiting for the "conservative" reaction. It came on February 28 in thi...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

Mais où sont les neiges d'antan?

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We haven't had much snow in Gotham this winter; mostly evanescent dustings that tantalize kids but don't leave enough to make decent...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007

More Florida weirdness.

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Whenever I go there, I get the feeling I'm going back to the Mesozoic, where an encounter with Allosaurus fragilis in the thin forest s...
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Lenten stuff.

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Yesterday, I did something I hadn't ever before. I went to an Ash Wednesday service at my (Episcopalian, though it's now questionab...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Eye of the beholder.

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A friend and I were browsing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art gift shop when he said, "Publishing this was sure a risk." He was ...
Saturday, February 17, 2007

Silly science Saturday.

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Going through today's New York Times , I saw two items that led to the caption of this post. The first takes us, once again , to the T...
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Readme, John McWhorter

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(See his column in yesterday's New York Sun .) No "recreational hostility" here. This blog guaranteed 100% snark-free. Adden...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Sauron's eye?

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This is the Helix Nebula, in Aquarius, photographed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (named for the late astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer, ...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

I have blogger's block.

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I'll get over it. Two recent deaths, one of them the subject of the post immediately below, and other matters, have put me in an intros...
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Friday, February 09, 2007

Requiescat.

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Isonomist's son (see here ) died yesterday afternoon. May light eternal shine upon him, O Lord, in the company of Thy saints forever, f...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Continental collision zone.

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Kudos to Twiffer for referring me to another NASA site, Visible Earth , which features images of earth made by satellites or by astronauts o...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Angry Sol?

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This image, made by the SOHO observatory (see here ), which orbits the Sun at a point inside the earth's orbit, shows a coronal mass eje...
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