Experiments in Life

This is truly turning out to be squid week or something. Anyway, thought this article was interesting too. They caught one of the giant squids on camera. That’s a nice change from a dead one washed up on the beach. Check it out, it at least has a cool picture

Scientists capture giant squid on camera

Here is another article describing the same thing, only it has a couple of more pictures and a video you can watch. It’s pretty cool. Go check it out

Live Giant Squid Caught on Camera

Below is a link to a very interesting article. Follow it if you dare

Deep Sea Squids

Here’s some more squid news

Giant Squid overthrown…
Colossal Squid

I think that it is fascinating that Harriet, the giant tortoise captured by Charles Darwin in the Galapogos Islands, is still alive. Unfortunately, Harriet currently lives The Crocodile Hunter’s Austrailia Zoo, so there is virtually no chance of me ever getting to see her. Reading just a little about Harriet’s story instilled in me a sense of awe over the scope of her lifetime. 175 years is a long time.

Results of the Nerd? Geek? Dork? test:

Plague-infected lab mice missing in New Jersey

“…the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error…” (from the Associated Press article linked to above)

Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University microbiologist had this to say, “You have more security at a McDonald’s than at some of these facilities…”

Somehow, that just doesn’t make me feel any better about the incident.

This was just too good! So good in fact that I felt like I needed to post about it. It will definitely give you something to think about.

Female bats share mates with their moms

BTW, who comes up with these crazy research ideas and how on earth do they get funding for it? I’d like to study bat family trees and get paid for it. Where do I sign up Any other takers

It’s been a while since I posted, but I’m back with some exciting news…

Well, we finally went and did it….we’ve been talking about it for months now….and the time has finally arrived….we bought a car!!!!! That’s right folks. You are talking to the proud owner of a 2005 Hyundai Tucson. It is a SUV with a ton of space. In fact, it’s the only one of the smaller class of SUVs that Jon fit in. I have been dying to post about it, but wanted to wait until I actually had the keys in hand….and now I do

I was a total baseketcase yesterday while we were waiting to here back from the dealership. You see, I was so picky that they had to bring in a car from another dealership, just to please me No really, they actually didn’t have the model I wanted. They had sold their last one right before we went in to do the paperwork. The Tucson is black with tan leather interior. It has leather seats, a cassette player, and an in-dash 6 disc CD player. I love it!!!

Well, I suppose I’ve rambled on enough about the car. Hopefully we will have some pictures of me and my new car to put up soon

Yes Dad, I fully intend on putting up some pictures, just for you