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[photo: iphone snap of delicious fruits I bought at the local farmer's market yesterday. - XJ]
Amy Wallace's Wired feature, "An Epidemic of Fear: How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All" looks at the life and times of Paul Offit, vaccine inventor and advocate, and the anti-vaccine pseudo-science he battles as he attempts to convince parents not to give in to fear and disinformati... More.
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In which I am inspired by a snarky comment on another blog. My normal routine involves a fair amount of procrastination, but I tell myself that's OK (really), because sometimes it leads to work ideas. Like, a couple of months ago, when I was browsing through the Onion AV Club and stumbled over th... More.
Last week's story on Escape Pod, the excellent weekly science fiction short story podcast was "Infestation" by Garth Nix. It's a vampire story with a twist (in a genre where not many twists are left) and it kept me guessing right up to the end. A delightful piece of speculative and wicked science fi... More.
John Schwartz at the New York Times writes about what it's like to have a son in college whose job is to sit around with no clothes on. Hey, from the son's perspective, what's not to love, right? The only job requirement is that you have a body. Snip: As a little boy, Sam once asked me: "Dad, is ... More.
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Figs are ripe, sweet and juicy in Delaware right now.
This far north, you have to plant the trees in semi-protected microclimates or take them indoors during the winter. But a little frostkill at the branch tips doesn't seem to be a problem, so planting between buildings in the lee of the prevailing winter winds can work pretty well.
Awh, when I read "cooking with dexter", I thought of cooking with, you know, "Dexter"!
Though it did remind me of where he would eat if he cooked:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/your-bloody-dinner.html