Author: honeyrand

Have you read the book Remarkably Bright Creatures? The narrator is an Octopus. Not normally the kind of book you’d find on my reading list, but it just goes to show you that a well-told story keeps you going. And octopuses are amazing. I just loved the book The Soul…

Yesterday I received a massive catalog in the mail at the house. The thing is, I have been receiving these for two decades. Once, 20 years ago, my company bought some rug protectors, and I’m still getting the inch-and-a-half catalogs. First, they went to the company, then to the post…

We have a love/hate relationship with rats. Mostly we hate them, but then again, sometimes, they are our pets. They have enough systems reflective of our own that they are used in experiments, physical and behavioral. And sometimes we just study them because their interesting. Like this experiment: in a…

This delightful little story highlights human connection in ways we seem to have largely misplaced. Yes, there are those wonderful neighborhood “libraries” constructed or from repurposed newspaper vending machines and a few other notable efforts. It’s a strong counterpoint and maybe antidote to the guy with the AR15 in Texas…

So, wild sex. At a certain age, not so much. Then again, the idea of wild sex at any age seems a good one. But the definition of wild sex changes as the years pass. Maybe. I think the lesson from this article is that authenticity leads to better pairing…

Scientists have found that the dwarf reed snake cartwheels away from danger. It just rolls up and rolls on. THAT is a fabulous evolutionary development. Don’t know about you, but cartwheels are not in my wheelhouse these days. What would happen if we could sense danger then, not bolt, but…

So, engineers are trying to 3-D print food. Specifically, cheesecake. Let me just say, EW. Maybe it tastes OK, but we’re a long way from adjusting our visual acceptance of printed food. Some of the early sci-fi programs had “manufactured” food. Some of it looked like glop, but some looked…

Lots of you know that Jim has been dealing with blood cancer for many years. The average from the onset of symptoms to death is six years. Jim is at 11 years. He’s really tough. Nine clinical trials. Lots of other meds to manage symptoms. Medical whack-a-mole. A byproduct of…

So a Harvard scientist has posited the idea that an alien ship could be hovering in our solar system sending out probes to gather data, just like we’re doing with interstellar interrogation. So the unidentified anomalous phenomena could be extraterrestrial. WELL, YES. Which is worse, unidentified visitors or an earth-based…