tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post8425180695106658639..comments2024-02-07T22:52:15.919-07:00Comments on Partial Ellipsis of the Sun: A Blog for Scientists who like Words and Writers who like Science: Clam to Clam: "Don't Make Me Put My Foot Down!" or "Bivalve, Will Travel"Word Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-39327065884476054522014-12-23T04:11:02.485-07:002014-12-23T04:11:02.485-07:00Nice, Lego!Nice, Lego!janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-18086541877952805552014-12-22T20:16:34.272-07:002014-12-22T20:16:34.272-07:00Gordon Gekko here. My daughter Gertie, a former Ge...Gordon Gekko here. My daughter Gertie, a former Geico CEO, used such Gecko Gloves to climb close to the top of my corporate Wall Street investment firm. I mean "climb" literally. She had to scale the glassy walls and windows of our skyscraping building because, even though Gertie is my daughter, I am still a male chauvinist pig.<br /><br />Anyway, she finally got in through an open window on the penultimate-to-the-top floor. There, however, she ran up against a glass ceiling, upon which her gecko gloves were of no use to her whatsoever. Hah!<br /><br />Legekko... legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-20769977758560104612014-12-22T19:39:58.434-07:002014-12-22T19:39:58.434-07:00Pretty cool. Would you try them? My daughter likes...Pretty cool. Would you try them? My daughter likes rock climbing. . .Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-27725849425847936422014-12-22T19:20:37.101-07:002014-12-22T19:20:37.101-07:00Gecko gloves<a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_27183312/standford-lizard-brains-create-gecko-like-paws-that" rel="nofollow">Gecko gloves</a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-47131772242457624232014-12-22T10:01:26.835-07:002014-12-22T10:01:26.835-07:00Just noticed a Yo La Tengo advertisement on PEOTS....Just noticed a Yo La Tengo advertisement on PEOTS. We're gonna have to start running ads over at that other blog with double-zees in the middle and an exclamation mark at the end!<br /><br />LegoZZlambda!legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-69358333801799419212014-12-22T09:58:29.531-07:002014-12-22T09:58:29.531-07:00With whom! (Sorry, E. B. White... and Charlotte, t...With <em>whom</em>! (Sorry, E. B. White... and Charlotte, the webwriter)<br />LegrammarChallengedChallengerlegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-54523009239858362662014-12-22T09:53:35.917-07:002014-12-22T09:53:35.917-07:00Take a word that appears in Steph's PEOTS hea...Take a word that appears in Steph's PEOTS headline this week. Invert one of the letters and superimpose part of it onto a part of one of the other letters to form a new letter. Rearrange the result to get the name of a blog purveyor with which many here at PEOTS (and other aficionados of fine puzzling) may be familiar. <br /><br />LegoHalfHearted legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-40116833732896255892014-12-21T18:34:27.488-07:002014-12-21T18:34:27.488-07:00Let it Be (Botanical emoji).Let it Be (Botanical emoji).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-15095794828036214242014-12-21T18:18:06.207-07:002014-12-21T18:18:06.207-07:00Maybe it's just me, but I saw today's feat...Maybe it's just me, but I saw <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Leaf_morphology.svg" rel="nofollow">today's featured picture on Wikipedia</a> as botanical emojis. "Don't be [Obtuse]; you're such an [Aciuclar]; everything I say, you say the [Opposite]." "Che [Serrate], [Serrate]." "Imagine [Whorled] peas." Etc.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-36921862989568964862014-12-20T16:13:18.415-07:002014-12-20T16:13:18.415-07:00Ok, Lego, this is a stretch as I've not heard ...Ok, Lego, this is a stretch as I've not heard of a SEELBACK cocktail before. Is that what you were thinking with your newer CLAMBAKES + E - KLM + KL puzzle? :-)Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-14027091442781022222014-12-20T10:57:45.544-07:002014-12-20T10:57:45.544-07:00To clarify: Almost everyone. I have one friend who...To clarify: Almost everyone. I have one friend who is quite geographically challenged (but has MANY other fine qualities ;-)).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-10926109607484485042014-12-20T10:52:49.575-07:002014-12-20T10:52:49.575-07:00I agree that the how is still a mystery, jan.
Th...I agree that the how is still a mystery, jan. <br /><br />Thanks for the precuneus research, Paul.<br /><br />My question, do you orient yourself when you walk into any building, take a walk, deplane? Until recently, I thought everyone did this. Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-27192640296627283622014-12-20T04:12:49.174-07:002014-12-20T04:12:49.174-07:00A favorite game during our awful neuroanatomy cour...A favorite game during our awful neuroanatomy course was guessing where the professor's lesion was.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-19403413848994233562014-12-20T00:48:57.555-07:002014-12-20T00:48:57.555-07:00AFLAC!<a href="http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2006/06/are-you-conscious-of-your-precuneus.html" rel="nofollow">AFLAC!</a>Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-56382987284503200662014-12-20T00:23:06.400-07:002014-12-20T00:23:06.400-07:00Clearly, orientation does not occur by occident.
A...Clearly, orientation does not occur by occident.<br />And what's a <i>precuneus</i>?<br />i think I'll ask the duck.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11114786604125384958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-56518093213965252802014-12-19T20:16:59.234-07:002014-12-19T20:16:59.234-07:00OK, but how? This is what I find so unsatisfying ...OK, but <i>how</i>? This is what I find so unsatisfying about much of vertebrate neuroscience. Some area of the brain lights up when you do something, or some function degrades when you lesion some brain area. But that tells you so little about what's really going on. Except for a few really outstanding xperiments, like Hubel & Wiesel's work on ocular dominance columns in the cat visual cortex, or Eccles' work on the cerebellum, or maybe Mike Gazzaniga's work on split brain patients, there's really so little light shed on <i>how</i> the part of the brain involved in a particular function does its job.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-33422458728755906472014-12-19T16:16:00.408-07:002014-12-19T16:16:00.408-07:00Some orient, others don't<a href="http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)01427-4" rel="nofollow">Some orient, others don't</a>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-63037429709157532072014-12-19T14:40:16.231-07:002014-12-19T14:40:16.231-07:005 cm of ash is a lot of ash.
5 cm of ash is a lot of ash.<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-69109178911299907762014-12-19T09:42:32.386-07:002014-12-19T09:42:32.386-07:00Not a Gamalama Ding-Dong<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamelan#mediaviewer/File:Asian_Civilisations_Museum,_Empress_Place_19,_Aug_06.JPG" rel="nofollow">Not a Gamalama Ding-Dong</a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-91619045943119523712014-12-19T06:17:42.641-07:002014-12-19T06:17:42.641-07:00Here's an interesting piece on the demographic...<a href="http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/baby-boomer-aging-retirement-by-brigitte-miksa-2014-12" rel="nofollow">Here's an interesting piece on the demographics</a>, from a website my son turned me on to.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-53653287306585687362014-12-19T06:10:53.579-07:002014-12-19T06:10:53.579-07:00In other geo news, only a Gamalama Ding-Dong would...In other geo news, <a href="http://indonesianewsstand.com/news/read/1114962/Babullah-Airport-Shut-as-Mount-Gamalama-Erupts" rel="nofollow">only a Gamalama Ding-Dong would fly into Big Babullah today</a>. (What a plane in the ash!)janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-52723096422134597512014-12-18T20:22:58.854-07:002014-12-18T20:22:58.854-07:00jan,
I loved “The In-Laws.” Can’t beat Falk and Ar...jan,<br />I loved “The In-Laws.” Can’t beat Falk and Arkin. Always reminded me of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ8l-nt2Lxk" rel="nofollow">“Charlie Varrick”</a>, an underrated Matthau gem.<br /><br />BTW, I find scallops swimming in butter and garlic delicious!<br /><br />LegoScallopRhymesWithWallop<br />legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-22770289766618921752014-12-18T15:38:57.908-07:002014-12-18T15:38:57.908-07:00Brethren and sisthren.Brethren and sisthren.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-31026519229765550232014-12-18T15:31:49.055-07:002014-12-18T15:31:49.055-07:00David, I had a geoduck image ready to go but decid...David, I had a geoduck image ready to go but decided against it at the last hour. They are pretty interesting and some are pretty <i>elderly</i>. Do you speak Lushootseed (Nisqually) , which gave us the word gʷídəq? Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-75100337755119636582014-12-18T15:28:07.522-07:002014-12-18T15:28:07.522-07:00I find swimming scallops hysterical.I find <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHg6M7-Du0" rel="nofollow">swimming scallops</a> hysterical.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.com