Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
“By seeing a dark matter structure that is not traced by galaxies and hot gas, we can study how it behaves differently from normal matter.”
Steampunk Spectacles
Exactly what it says. You know you want to see them.
And some upcoming releases I’m very interested in:
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I have a weakness for pop-up books and cards. Someday, I’d like to learn the basics of making them.
I’ve just discovered a beautiful new series of pop-up cards. It’s called Winter Garden.
They’re available in shops in Singapore and Hong Kong, and online at shopmodi.
At $9 (USD) a pop, they are pricey as cards - but for paper-art-lovers, I think they’re a lovely little gift.
I was eating a rice cake recently and wondered for the first time how, exactly, rice is “puffed.”
“Distinct from popcorn, which naturally pops and puffs itself with heating, puffed grain is created by placing whole grains under high pressure with steam. When the containment vessel’s seal is suddenly broken, the entrained steam then flashes and bloats the endosperm of the kernel, increasing its volume to many times its original size.”
That’s how we get things like puffed grain cereals and rice cakes. Rice Crispies aren’t truly puffed rice, though. They’re little pellets of batter that rise into a puffy shape. (By the way, I never knew the Rice Crispies are called Rice Bubbles in Australia. Cute!)
And many of us, especially the vegetarians and vegans, are quite familiar with Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP). But did you know that it’s also a puffed product? It comes about by puffing soy meal.
Oh and here’s an example of puffed rice being used in a traditional Indian marriage ceremony.
OK. I’ve writted “puffed” quite enough times for one day. It’s gotten a bit too funny. So, the end!
Exciting news! There is a new blog carnival coming to town!
Simply Delightful! is a carnival of posts featuring something that is delighting you right now. We’re looking for posts about what’s making you happy, fascinating you, exciting you about life in our universe, etc. The topic could be anything from a poem to whole wheat noodles to a new band to quantum physics to…well, the possibilities are endless.
The carnival will reach Treehouse Jukebox on June 12th. Don’t be shy - go here and submit your post for inclusion!
I love flowers and other plants. I like to grow them in pots on our patio in the summer. Usually, I buy some lovely flowers in the spring for those pots.
But this year, I’d doing a Free Garden Adventure.
I have lots of pots that I got through Freecycle a year or two ago. Instead of buying plants this year, I am carefully taking wildflowers from secluded or abandoned areas and transplanting them into my pots. (Don’t worry - I’m not taking ALL the wildflowers.)
So far, I have some lovely little purple flower and some yellow flowers. I don’t have names for either of them.
Once my Free Garden has grown a bit more, I will post pictures.
There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.
Drink all your passion,
and be a disgrace.
Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.
Open your hands,
if you want to be held.
Sit down in the circle.
Quit acting like a wolf, and feel
the shepherd’s love filling you.
At night, your beloved wanders.
Don’t accept consolations.
Close your mouth against food.
Taste the lover’s mouth in yours.
You moan, “She left me.” “He left me.”
Twenty more will come.
Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.
~Rumi
First project: International exchanges through Gimme Your Stuff!
I am on the East Coast of the United States of America and I would be happy to send you:
In exchange, I would like:
Please leave me a comment if you want to do a swap!
Thank you!!
Here is my first post. This blog will be all about my Adventures in Earth!
What that means, exactly, will be explained and defined as the blog progresses.
Yes!
