WOOHOO! Deadliest Catch Season 5 airs April 14, 2009 at 9PM, according to Capt. Phil Harris’ MySpace page. I can’t wait to see if Capt. Phil is back after suffering a pulmonary embolism last season. The show wouldn’t be the same without him. I can’t explain why this show is so awesome, but it is. [...]
Deadliest Catch Season 5
March 18th, 2009
Cleaning up chlorine-based toxins with nature
February 21st, 2009
There was a really cool article called Magic Forest: Poplars Purifying the Planet in the January 2009 issue of Discover magazine that discussed an experimental method for extracting chlorinated solvents used in atomic experiments from contaminated groundwater. The extraordinary part of the article is that the scientists involved in the experiment are using trees to [...]
Geocaching is cool!
February 16th, 2009
My husband and I discovered a new hobby today – geocaching. For those who haven’t heard of it, geocaching is basically a treasure hunt performed with a GPS unit. Geocachers hide a container with various items inside it in a specific location, note down the coordinates from their GPS unit and then post the location [...]
Messing with the natural order of things backfires again
January 14th, 2009
I saw this article today on Yahoo news. It’s about Macquarie Island, which is located southeast of Tasmania. The article talks about how Macquarie is a World Heritage site because it is a breeding ground for many species of birds, particularly endangered ones. Apparently there was a large population of feral cats which were feeding [...]