Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist
Combining Science and Joyful Creativity
We managed to get out of the house today for a while. Beechwood State Park is close enough to us, that we should be able to go there quite frequently. I was a little horrified to realize that it has been more than a month since last we were there.
The whole family was there.
Friday Headlines, January 8, 2016
THE LATEST IN THE GEOSCIENCES
Today’s round-up:
Not an H-bomb
Seeing the Earth a billion years ago.Continue reading “Friday Headlines: January 8, 2016”
I’ve been working on a little project that has required me to dig a little into the history of stable isotope geochemistry. Today I learned about the first mass spectrometers. I’ve found the results interesting and thought I might share them here. This is research in progress…
The First Mass SpectrographsContinue reading “Mass Spectrographs and the Birth of Stable Isotope Geochemistry”
A couple of months ago, I posted about my Baltimorphic Complex beer. It’s a Belgian-ish style beer seasoned with Old Bay. At the time of my last post, I had only kegged the beer, but had not tasted it yet.
BlogHer Writing Lab – January Theme: Balance
January 5 – Prompt: Has technology helped you achieve a better work/life balance?
BlogHer Writing Lab – January Theme: Balance
January 4 – Prompt: Do you think you have a decent work/life balance?
The RocNaNo blog offers weekly Wordless Wednesday writing prompts. Last week’s was this:
Far Far AwayContinue reading “Wordless Wednesday Writing Challenge – Far Far Away”
Some time ago, I posted about the newest member of our family and how excited we were that he was coming to live with us.
Comet is a Siberian Husky. We decided to get a dog because we though it would help our autistic son with understanding non-verbal communication. We also hope that Comet will be a good playmate for our son.
On November 15, Comet moved in.
I awoke this morning to learn it was 2016. Strange. It didn’t feel any different.
I went to sleep at 10pm last night. It became 2016 without me. How rude.
— Penny ⓐ Higgins (@paleololigo) January 1, 2016
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsBut it is different. Though the changing of the year is nearly completely arbitrary (I mean, why doesn’t it happen on the solstice?), it is a well defined opportunity to look back on the previous year and consider what I might do to make things better in the next.
This is, of course, what everyone refers to as ‘New Year Resolutions.’ For myself, I have several, a couple that are specific to this blog.
#ResolutionsFor2016 1 – Get back to blogging (nearly) daily. — Penny ⓐ Higgins (@paleololigo) January 1, 2016
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#ResolutionsFor2016 2 – Bring back Friday Headlines blog posts.
— Penny ⓐ Higgins (@paleololigo) January 1, 2016
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So here we are. Let’s do this thing…
Penny Higgins - Storyteller • Artist • Scientist