Think You Have What It Takes To Be a Forester? Here’s the a log scaling question: Name a log scale in common use in your locality and give the contents of logs of the following sizes by this scale: 16 feet long and 26 inches in diameter small end 18 feet long and 30 inchesContinue reading “Take the 1908 Civil Service Exam for Forest Ranger”
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Writing an E-Mail Query Letter
Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like. I found an article at Associated ContentContinue reading “Writing an E-Mail Query Letter”
Writing an E-Mail Query Letter to a Literary Agent
Many magazine, literary agents, publishers, etc., are accepting e-mail query letters. E-queries use a different format than the standard query letter sent through the postal mail. And, if you’re like me (unpublished but taken steps to rectify that deficiency) you don’t know what a query should look like. I found an article at Associated ContentContinue reading “Writing an E-Mail Query Letter to a Literary Agent”
Remember Molly
My goodness, has Molly Ivins really been gone for two years? She knew stuff: “I realize this is not breaking news, but we are looking at something exceptional in political history with this race. . . . The Internet is breaking open old power structures and set ways of doing things. Most campaign consultants haveContinue reading “Remember Molly”
Bjorn Lomborg
I find Bjorn Lomborg to be one of the most persuasive voices on the planet. Money quote: An African safari trip once confronted America’s new president with a question he could not answer: why the rich world prized elephants over African children. Today’s version of that question is: why will richer nations spend obscene amountsContinue reading “Bjorn Lomborg”
The Medea Hypothesis
So much for James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis–the idea that life sustains habitable conditions on earth. Enter The Medea Hypothesis. Peter Ward argues that most of Earth’s mass extinctions were caused life itself, and we have the hydrogen sulfide markers to prove it. There’s an interesting TED Talk here (about 20 minutes).
President Obama's Inauguration Speech
Word clouds show where the speaker has put emphasis.
President Obama’s Inauguration Speech
Word clouds show where the speaker has put emphasis.
#44
It’s noon eastern time. Barack Obama IS the 44th President of the United States.
Study Finds People Like Study Findings
THE WEEK magazine’s contest for this week involved studies that state the obvious: A new study has determined that the closer teenagers live to a lot of liquor stores, the more likely it is that they will drink. Astounding! Please invent another scientific study that proves the obvious and provide the headline for that study.Continue reading “Study Finds People Like Study Findings”
Nullius in Verba 