tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post3699698318871492572..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: SpongeBob SquarePants Fungi (Really!) and Possible Sponge PrecursorWord Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-984042663006446952015-03-17T21:20:32.607-06:002015-03-17T21:20:32.607-06:00Anyone see the aurora borealis tonight?
New post ...Anyone see the aurora borealis tonight?<br /><br />New post on malachite is now up. Enjoy the green today!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-69425972584366719692015-03-17T16:17:43.925-06:002015-03-17T16:17:43.925-06:00Any effects your way? Green sun flares? ;-)Any effects your way? Green sun flares? ;-)Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-39227451461932730602015-03-17T13:37:15.068-06:002015-03-17T13:37:15.068-06:00Got some interesting activity on the sun recently,...<a href="http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/potw/item/605" rel="nofollow">Got some interesting activity on the sun recently</a>, with <a href="http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-observed" rel="nofollow">a severe geomagnetic storm predicted for us today.</a>janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-59607583749075569022015-03-15T14:01:20.232-06:002015-03-15T14:01:20.232-06:00I thought flow was perfect!I thought flow was perfect!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-45687276130494676152015-03-15T14:00:36.600-06:002015-03-15T14:00:36.600-06:00We are so gif-ted! Thanks!
Not sure about the mat...We are so gif-ted! Thanks!<br /><br />Not sure about the math with your bike wheel circumference but you may be onto something with measuring while loaded ;-).<br /> <br />Measuring in CO is a little more difficult as all the 420 mile marker signs have been replaced with 419.9 ones. The 420 signs never stayed up for long!Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-62274511674647681112015-03-15T13:56:44.599-06:002015-03-15T13:56:44.599-06:00Darn. Make that "glow", not "flow&...Darn. Make that "glow", not "flow".janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-83376696482736035202015-03-15T13:49:10.288-06:002015-03-15T13:49:10.288-06:00While we're still basking in the flow of yeste...While we're still basking in the flow of yesterday's Pi Day of the Century, <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pi-unrolled-720.gif/220px-Pi-unrolled-720.gif" rel="nofollow">this nice animated gif</a>, and getting out on my bike for the first time since early January, got me thinking. I've got a cyclocomputer on my bike, which I had to program with the circumference of my front tire when I installed it. The measurement setup looked like the gif: With the valvestem at the bottom, I marked the spot on the garage floor under the valvestem, rolled the bike forward one revolution, marked the spot under the valvestem again, and measured the distance between the marks. The computer reads close to, but not quite equal to, the posted measured 1/2 mile distance at one point on my ride. So, maybe my measurement wasn't so good, or maybe the posted measured 1/2 mile isn't, or maybe the computer is programmed wrong, or maybe the wireless transmitter misses a revolution here and there. My theoretical question is: Could it be that I wasn't <i>on</i> the bike, flattening out the tire, when I measured the tire circumference? (Flattening ∝ fattening!) I.e., what does the flattening of a pneumatic tire under load do to the circumference? Please show all work.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-41575205697663295632015-03-14T09:26:06.758-06:002015-03-14T09:26:06.758-06:003/14/15 9:26:53 -- at long last it's here!
Wh...3/14/15 9:26:53 -- at long last it's here!<br /><br /><a href="http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/pi-day-why-pi-matters" rel="nofollow">Why Pi Matters</a>Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-41763724270933349562015-03-13T20:50:23.872-06:002015-03-13T20:50:23.872-06:00Great, comprehensive link, Steph. As the "big...Great, comprehensive link, Steph. As the "big day" nears I increasingly realize that Pi Day is not a celebration of Pi but of Math/Science <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=pi+day+ecard+pictures&rlz=1C1RNLH_enUS551US587&espv=2&biw=1222&bih=567&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=_qADVcD4AorasATEgYL4AQ&ved=0CDIQ7Ak" rel="nofollow">geekiness!</a><br /><br />Legeekolegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-70885170703738603122015-03-12T19:36:04.288-06:002015-03-12T19:36:04.288-06:00Lots of good Pi Day linkshere.Lots of good <a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/learning/2015/03/12/throwback-thursday-the-pi-day-of-the-century/" rel="nofollow">Pi Day links</a>here.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-48968172668273995122015-03-12T15:47:09.894-06:002015-03-12T15:47:09.894-06:00Those are some deep oceans!
70 degrees here this ...Those are some deep oceans!<br /><br />70 degrees here this week . . .so no complaints! Auto correct didn't fix no compliants, I did ;-).Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-10603987184467173512015-03-12T15:29:06.182-06:002015-03-12T15:29:06.182-06:00So, The Northeast is covered in snow and Lake Erie...So, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/05/us/one-giant-picture-of-all-the-snow-across-the-us.html" rel="nofollow">The Northeast is covered in snow and Lake Erie is pretty much frozen solid</a>, and it'll be months before the ocean here is swimmable, and NASA picks today to let us know that <i>both</i> <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/spacecraft-data-suggest-saturn-moons-ocean-may-harbor-hydrothermal-activity/index.html#.VQIEw_nF9qU" rel="nofollow">Enceladus</a> and <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press/2015/march/nasa-s-hubble-observations-suggest-underground-ocean-on-jupiters-largest-moon/index.html#.VQIDavnF9qU" rel="nofollow">Ganymeded</a> have warm oceans. I ask you, is that fair?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-77298082999062028682015-03-12T13:20:06.110-06:002015-03-12T13:20:06.110-06:00'Twas my first reading. . .'Twas my first reading. . .Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-85971190066214511872015-03-12T11:55:08.367-06:002015-03-12T11:55:08.367-06:00That's a classic.That's a classic.janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-49156750205221395222015-03-12T08:35:17.070-06:002015-03-12T08:35:17.070-06:00Speaking of packing a lot into a few words, have y...Speaking of packing a lot into a few words, have you read this before?<br /><br />The limerick packs laughs anatomical<br />Into space that is quite economical.<br />But the good ones I’ve seen<br />So seldom are clean<br />And the clean ones so seldom are comical.<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-66478295132236459002015-03-11T21:02:40.877-06:002015-03-11T21:02:40.877-06:00Chortling here. . .
Chortling here. . .<br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-36094234069243064872015-03-11T20:21:16.521-06:002015-03-11T20:21:16.521-06:00I feel kinda left out not having an organism named...I feel kinda left out not having an organism named after me. Or an element. Or an elephant.<br /><br />I think Hastings Ismay's wife was named Esme. Ms. Esme Ismay. Before he came to NATO, Hastings played shortstop in the Pig Latin League. He played under his nickname, Illyway Ismay.<br /><br /><em>LepidopteroLambda</em> (aka "the woolly butterfly")legolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-56508725738955410352015-03-11T19:32:07.060-06:002015-03-11T19:32:07.060-06:00Speaking of epigrams, or at least bon mots, March ...Speaking of epigrams, or at least bon mots, March 12 is the anniversary of the 1952 appointment of NATO's first Secretary General, Hastings Ismay, who declared that the purpose of the European alliance was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-46613860056257169392015-03-11T17:23:29.341-06:002015-03-11T17:23:29.341-06:00These are great, jan. Glad to have stayed tooned. ...These are great, jan. Glad to have stayed tooned. Good to see SBSP highlighted in the lists, too.<br /><br />What's science without a little whimsy? Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-66511300911674864102015-03-11T16:46:38.803-06:002015-03-11T16:46:38.803-06:00Even among fictional characters, SpongeBob isn'...Even among fictional characters, SpongeBob isn't unique.<br /><br />Check out these lists and sites:<br /><br />http://mentalfloss.com/article/50077/11-organisms-scientifically-named-after-fictional-characters<br /><br />http://entomologytoday.org/2014/12/01/curious-scientific-names-can-make-insects-famous/<br /><br />http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/index.html<br /><br />(I love <i>Phthiria relativitae</i>.)janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-8625227891624949802015-03-11T12:52:06.409-06:002015-03-11T12:52:06.409-06:00Geez, what a list! I was surprised. And no rules a...Geez, what a list! I was surprised. And no rules about the person needing to be dead to get naming rights.<br /><br />I would rather have a frog over a wasp, all Stinging aside.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-40147598055908675192015-03-11T12:35:39.563-06:002015-03-11T12:35:39.563-06:00Naming organisms for celebrities is nothing new. ...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_famous_people" rel="nofollow">Naming organisms for celebrities is nothing new.</a> I didn't see other toons on the list, though Matt Groening comes close. Odd that there are no beetles named for the Beatles. But I'm glad Michael Crichton got a dinosaur. And with all the eponymous wasps, how come Sting just got a frog?janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05927176621372532733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-4373371649661165562015-03-11T11:33:09.320-06:002015-03-11T11:33:09.320-06:00Great recording! My mom loves to say "Is ther...Great recording! My mom loves to say "Is there a fungus among us?!"<br /><br />Fungi jumping--well worth the trip, Lego. Thanks.Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-84002381368523080832015-03-11T10:32:47.181-06:002015-03-11T10:32:47.181-06:00Scientific Steph,
No, I had not heard of this befo...Scientific Steph,<br />No, I had not heard of this before. But, of course, I just heard last Thursday that we landed a man on the moon.<br /><br />But I have heard <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CxU2Jcty_U" rel="nofollow">this</a>.<br /><br />My head is not completely in the sand, however, when it comes to things scientific. I have heard rumors that this coming August at the best state fair in the nation, the Minnesota State Fair, there will be an attraction in which adventurous people can plunk down five fins, climb a ladder to a platform suspended 200 feet above the midway, and jump into a pit chock full of Spongiforma squarepantsii!!<br /><br />They call it fungi jumping.<br /><br />LegOstrichEggolegolambdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18081014756741740081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1915875085991225575.post-76719001753784880062015-03-11T09:05:29.456-06:002015-03-11T09:05:29.456-06:00Those would fit right in Lego. Wonder why they onl...Those would fit right in Lego. Wonder why they only showed 1/2 of the states.<br /><br />Had you heard of the fungi with the SpongeBob SquarePants name before?<br /><br />Word Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491300694641304112noreply@blogger.com