Category Archives: Science

Not So Sweet

Posted on May 15, 2005 by Anne

This is a tragedy. Maybe I should cut back on my two packets/day of Splenda. Humph. Dr. Susan Schiffman, a sweetener specialist and professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center, says she has safety concerns about sucralose, which … Continue reading →

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Watch out! She’s on ophtho…

Posted on April 20, 2005 by Anne

I’ve always thought my eyes were sort of weird. Like they wanted to be brown but just couldn’t manage to muster up all the pigment (hmmm.. kind of like the rest of my unpigmented self). I guess you’d call it … Continue reading →

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Who evolved? Katydid!

Posted on April 3, 2005 by Anne

Go on. Tell me again about how evolution doesn’t exist. This is one damn fine bug. And I really don’t like bugs. At all.

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Physics, Oh How I’ve Missed You

Posted on January 24, 2005 by Anne

I was looking at the snow drifts today, and it reminded me of a ridiculously cool physics proof I learned in high school. So you know how sand in a desert, or snow in a windswept drift, settles into these … Continue reading →

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Free the penguins!

Posted on January 17, 2005 by Anne

My parents are in Antarctica right now. They are not scientists. They simply have too much free time on their hands. I do think it’s funny that Antarctica made the front page of cnn.com while they are there… Perhaps they … Continue reading →

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