Miscellaneous snippets and links [science, food, projects]

Or, as bluepapercup put it, a link salad!

I came across an article title the other day that highly amused me, because I'd started wondering the same thing: "Epigenetics as a source of variation in comparative animal physiology - or - Lamark is lookin' pretty good these days" Warren W. Burggren, 2014, Journal of Experimental Biology, 217:682-689. The question is, will this affect how natural selection is taught in introductory biology courses? My guess is no, unless the instructor is an astute teacher of the history and nature of science working with a group of students who are already able to grasp the basic concepts behind the theory of natural selection. It's important to realize that this perspective doesn't really affect the theory, but people with an ulterior agenda could twist things around if they so chose. There's some fascinating history in this realm of biology - spend a few minutes learning about Lysenkoism, for instance.

How science works. Hint: it is mostly slow and non-significant. Shh, don't tell Hollywood! But seriously - this is a thoughtful piece on the nature of science, with a wonderful story about undergraduate research projects.

I'm pondering adapting elements of this style of organization (bullet journals). In the very least, it's useful to adapt this notation for discriminating between tasks, notes, and events.

Two recipes I'm pondering:
Lentil soup plus variations

Hmm, rhubarb galette with cornmeal pate brisee? Time to acquire more rhubarb, stat!

Yesterday, dichroic pointed out this wonderful poster about positive impacts of the labor movement. Let's remember that, and remind ourselves that it's important to take action to improve our society.

Lastly, here's a wonderful team of friends who gathered to help scrottie lift Princess TinyCar back onto her engine!

A big one

It's going to be an intense weekend. Finally time to tackle another 600k, legs, butt, and weather permitting.

Here's our route:


Note that it's a counter-clockwise circle, then a smaller clockwise circle back to Brookshire on Day 1. Day 2 is an out-and back. All fairly familiar territory.

I'll be voice-posting from the road, assuming I can get it to work properly.