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Category: science

  • Dental PSA

    Dental PSA

    Today was rough, but didn’t start out that way. How it started was I was going to take my kids to the dentist, then back to school and then go to lunch with a friend. We have a lovely children’s dentist. The office ladies always schedule both the children at the same time so when…

  • John 5: Water, Walk and Works

    At the Passover, Jesus goes to Jerusalem. There is a pool of Bethseda where the sick and the disabled lay on the ground, waiting to be healed when the water is stirred up. Jesus asks a man who had been there 38 years if he wanted to be healed. The man asks for help getting…

  • A.I.Pocalypse

    I haven’t had a scary dream in years, but I had one recently. It was the kind that had me shook.  I dreamed that a computer virus went through all the files and redid them all in the style of artificial intelligence art and ChatGPT writing. The result was that everything looked and sounded similar,…

  • Modern Mammals 

    In one of my recent notes, I mentioned some symptoms of the change of life I’ve been struggling through. If you’re a male reader, please don’t leave, fellows need to know about this too.  The first stages went by pretty fast. First, I was a girl minding her own business, then Aunt Flow showed up…

  • Home Sweet Home

    Despite humans being able view to the moon, stars and galaxies, we cannot live very well beyond the outer limits of our globe. Those two astronauts that got stuck on the international space station had to be carted off in wheelchairs up after their planned 8-day trip turned into a grueling nine months. A person…

  • Pufferfish People

    Meet the pufferfish. They seem cute and innocuous, but if they feel threatened or startled, they puff up and get all spikey and toxic. The fish may look adorable, but have enough poison to kill thirty humans. There is no known antidote. The only creature that is immune to them is the shark. Some people are…

  • Stay’n Alive

    I took my kid to the pediatric cardiologist today. It was in the medical building complex up the hills of Portland where they have Dorenbacher’s, Shriners and Oregon Health Sciences University Hospitals—all the best medicine we have available to modern humans. The reason we went was to keep my youngest healthy. While she didn’t have…

  • The Clean Up

    In the late nineteen nineties, I did a research paper on Hanford. It was the location of the part of the Manhattan Project where they refined plutonium for the creation of nuclear bombs used against Japan in WW2 and during the build up of the Cold War arsenal. Because of the secretive nature of national…

  • The Tutorial

    Last week I started a new side-gig, tutoring middle schoolers after school. It’s a program in Cornelius, a smaller community just west of Hillsboro. The time commitment is just 90 minutes, twice a week, but still managed to make me nervous starting out. I’ve been instructing adults for the last two decades, so it’s been…

  • Finding Ketchup

    Recently, I’ve seen a series of jokes on the internet about men not being able to find things at home, specifically in the refrigerator that are seemingly in plain sight. I have also experienced my own husband saying were out of something, say ketchup, that I know we have. I am sure we have it…