This vine volunteered in my garden this spring. I hoped it might be that delicious variety of cucumber I grew last year. Alas, it is fruit of the squirrels, who planted my fall pumpkin without even trying. It likes the heat. It may cover my entire yard by the time I get home in August.
PhD Comics explanation of Higgs boson. The animation helps me understand the vocabulary. If you already know about bottom quarks and their ilk, you might like this anyway.
Two is the number. Roy Peter Clark is on to something. The “unified theory of writing”combines science and words in a way that strikes me as just right. http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/newsgathering-storytelling/writing-tools/180084/can-we-figure-out-a-unified-theory-of-writing/
Always coaching with his hands…
In 10 days, Don and I plan to leave for Grand Teton National Park, then north to Glacier, Banff and Jasper. From there, we’ll go east across Canada and south through Minnesota to home. We plan to be gone for three weeks.
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