Science

Created
Sat, 06/09/2025 - 06:00
I do these occasional posts about science papers.  Some are just for fun.  But sometimes — honest! — there’s an underlying connection to the greater Crooked Timber project. This post is one of that sort, because it’s about the limits of understanding.  Unsurprisingly, it involves biology.  So we all learned back in high school that […]
Created
Sun, 01/06/2025 - 03:53
Unemployed, I spent a week in April digging a small pond in our back yard. At the time, it was a distraction. Now it is… actually, a different sort of distraction. Because although it’s not a very big pond — about 3 meters by 2, maximum depth about 70 cm — it has very quickly […]
Created
Thu, 05/06/2025 - 17:39
So a few days ago I posted about newts, and I mentioned that there was an American newt that was ridiculously toxic. But then (I said) there wasn’t space or time to go into why.  And of course I was immediately bombarded by many* comments and e-mails asking why.  *three Well, fine.  The world’s most toxic […]