"What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic"

- Ira Flatow, today on NPR's Talk of the Nation Science Friday. The topic is the effects of climate change on Alaska.

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=5

Unfortunately I can't pay close attention to the show because I have work to do that requires concentration. But it's on the background, and when I get up from my desk and walk around, or if I shift my mental focus to the radio, I hear bits of the story, like intermittent traffic passing through my brain.

Since writing this, I've started listening, and I think listening to this show is probably more important than the work I'm doing. Although I won't get paid for listening to it.

On a side note, Science Friday is a great show. It's on every Friday (go figure), and it's a two-hour show, not a one-hour show. I mention that because the one station I get it on only plays the first hour, so for a time, I didn't know it was two hours long.

How do weeds always match the wanted plants they grow near?

Seriously, how do they do it? The weeds next to the tomato plants look like tomato plants. The weeds next to the carrots look like carrots.

I can't believe I'm blogging

First of all, I can't stand the word "blog." It's yucky and stupid.

Secondly, I am fully aware of my own insignificance in the world, and am ashamed at my narcissism.

Third, I am even more aware of everyone else's insignificance in the world, and am appalled at their nacissism.

Fourth, I am fully cognizant of the hypocrisy in my last two statements.

Finally, why do you care???