Archive for the ‘Explaining Things’ Category
Signs of High Blood Sugar
Sometimes I get to be a spokesman/resource for diabetes, and people will ask how they can know if they might be showing signs of its onset. I happened across this set of "7 signs of high blood sugar" yesterday, and I think they are practical and cover most of the ground.
In: All, Briefly Noted, Explaining Things, Naming Things, Wanderings
How the Equinox Happens
Oh, I just now saw that the Spring Equinox happened about 20 minutes ago (12:57 pm, EDT). Happy Equinox! Then I started wondering whether anyone wondered how it is that we can have equal amounts of daylight and dark at a precise time of the day. (The answer is that the time–and the equinox–is determined […]
In: All, Explaining Things, It's Only Rocket Science
On Not Finishing Kaku's "Physics of the Impossible"
I read a lot of popular-science books. You know I do this partly to support the Science Booknotes and Science Book Challenge projects at Scienticity. I often remark to myself how thoroughly I enjoyed a book that I chose arbitrarily at my library, maybe because the title appealed to me or the book spine was […]
In: All, Books, Explaining Things, Speaking of Science
I ♥ Bariolage
I was very happy today to be reminded of the word "Bariolage", which refers to a technique of playing a stringed instrument in which a changing note played on one string is quickly alternated with an unchanging note played on another string; the unchanging note frequently is an open string. It's commonly heard in Baroque […]
In: All, Explaining Things, Music & Art