Bananas beget baby boys???

Do bananas beget baby boys? I doubt it…but apparently it’s newsworthy enough to merit a story on NPR.
A British study suggests that what a woman eats while she’s pregnant might affect the gender of the baby. The study, You are what your mother eats, claims it found that women who ate lots of breakfast cereal, [...]

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Compost on the counter

There it sits on my kitchen counter in all its nastiness- the compost bag. Triumphing over wastefulness in one corner of the world. Feeding the soil with nutrients. Festering in a ziplock bag. It was my housemate’s idea, an upgrade from the paper towel lined compost bowl (sealed with a lid and tucked safely beneath [...]

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BigDog- Frightening and Amazing

You have got to see this to believe it! (Kudos to Emily and Alex for bringing it to my attention.) A company called Boston Dynamics has developed this robot and others “that have rough-terrain mobility that can take them anywhere on Earth that people and animals can go.”
Instead of being [...]

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