Archive for March 2012

Proving math is good for endurance sports

Theoretical math and endurance exercise go together like paper and pencil, says Ken Ono, above. "Each activity makes me better at the o...

By Carol Clark The first day of spring was more like summer at Emory’s Oxford College campus, 40 minutes east of Atlanta. It was the seventh...

A glorious, blue egg appeared on this first day of spring in a bluebird nest on the quadrangle of Emory's Oxford Campus . The proud pare...

"I like to connect abstract math with things that are really concrete," says Skip Garibaldi. Photo by Bryan Meltz. By Carol Clark ...

Keeping up with Sanjay Gupta , an Emory neurosurgeon, best-selling author, and CNN’s chief medical correspondent, is “not for the weak of he...

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I signed up for this workshop: http://learning.tergar.org/course_library/joy-of-living-1/ It's the same one I attended a few weeks go fo...

2 more observations from my vacation: I've been doing the light therapy for about 3 months--that is, 20 minutes every morning in front o...

Would you like me to post food logs again? how often? That's how this blog started, I wanted to show examples of the every day food p...

I had lots of time to think on my vacation, while driving in the car, and doing my usual meditation in the mornings. I focussed a lot on w...

The 1960s space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was much more than a battle of technology. It was a human drama. Two of the most ...

By Carol Clark No one can predict where the conversation will go when novelist Salman Rushdie talks about the creative process with Seana C...

Yesterday was one of my favorite kayak rides. I had done the same route 2 years ago when I was here. On this route and a few others, you ...

Here are some impressions, from a nutritarian perspective, of my vacation. These are rather random: manatees are nutritarians. They weig...

Interstellar travel is a fantasy of many children, and believe it or not, the ambition of some scientists. Photo from 2008 Maker Faire by Ji...

Ella Davies writes in BBC Nature : “Female bonobos ‘advertise’ their homosexual activity to important audidnces, say scientists. “Researcher...

An artist's rendering of a young planet, similar to how Earth may have been 3.5 billion years ago. NASA/JPL CalTech/R. Hurt By Carol Cla...