I have meibomian gland disorder along with dry eye syndrome (basically my immune system attacks my eye glands). Along with using the computer less, my doctors have me taking Omega 3s, preferably from salmon or some other fatty ocean fish.

Many people think all sorts of critters are beautiful until it's in the same confined space as them then some kind of primitive alarm goes off in their brain and they may as well be in the room with a flying scorpion.

He did good I can tell you as a wildlife rehabber at this point I normally get one of two calls either going "Hi there's an owl in my house I called the police after we ran down the street and they said to call you" OR "Hi there's an owl in my house I gave it to my son as a pet and we want to know what to feed it".

Bones. Temperance Brennan keeps getting more annoying like the actor's adorkable sister. The jokes are so contrived I could puke. And yet.....we keep watching.

District 9, of course. Best movie and best human rights film ever made. Sharlto Copley's performance was brilliant, heartbreaking, he was robbed of an Emmy I tell you, robbed!

Sigh of course it's a good point but I wish for the love of dog we would drop the word INTELLIGENCE and even cognition. Does a squid have any good reason to learn algebra? Would it even matter if they knew who their mother was? The fact is while sometimes we eat animals for nutrition, there is simply no reason to keep…

Sorry to hog the floor but I also wish: a. We could talk about Lynn Margulis' ideas about coevolution and the layer of Earth called the Biosphere that churns and changes along with those big living organisms we talk about as though they evolve without changing the surface of the Earth itself and b. the word Natural…

Here is the very most wonderful best video for anyone who's sick of hearing the word Theory misused. Or proof. ps I wish we had tossed in the idea that the word "suggests" is the proper one when talking about what a study does or does not show.

It is always a great thing when a man calls out sexism (especially since sexist men probably won't be influenced by a woman's opinion). I have to add my voice though, to say Stewart at the BBang Theory comic book store is not at all sexist. He always has his eyes cast down (even when he's not crying). Of many many…

Recently? the Wind Up Bird Chronicle. I had the most spectacular nightmares after reading just a few pages.

Re: California needing rain I wouldn't be praying for torrential downpours after a drought, it does not restore damage to the soil it only takes the badly cracked and nutrient-poor soil and washes it out, making the soil thinner and with even fewer minerals.

Happy Valley! Yes the reservoirs are overflowing in fact, so is the Oxbow. I think it depends on the type of drought; it all could evaporate fast if the weather is dry. The snow gave the soil a nitrogen boost though so the plants are growing beautifully. Quite an interesting winter we had, no?

Oh that's right, I think I heard about that. Let's hope it lives up.

I actually spent some time working with the black footed ferrets as a grad school internship! It's a neat program. The issue is a challenging one and we could spend hours discussing it, which I wish more people would. Overall I think the harm overrides any benefit. I'm not against putting a handful of bred individuals…

I understand your point, but there are a LOT of problems with those studies. The first one merely shows that visitors can learn from observing scientists interact with live animals - something they could do at a field station, bird banding, rehab facility, wildlife rescue, a sharing program, a nature walk where live…

Thanks for the recs, at least now I have something new to read. How about Sandman or Shade the Changing Man?

We've had flooding here in Western Mass but I'm going to roll the dice here and make a prediction: New England goes into a moderate to serious drought this summer. I'm calling it, and you can make fun of me if I'm wrong. On a more serious note, my friend in California has seen some of the worst yet people are wasting…

We're planning to see Blackfish this weekend. As a former vet tech I interned at a zoo that had a side aquarium but after the new director came aboard in 2003 they only took in non-releasable wildlife from rehabbers. Birds with permanently screwed up wings, old circus bears, and so on. There is no reason zoos can't go…

"They" meaning Atheists engaging in scientific discussions wherein philosophy is arrogantly being used to further their thinly veiled contempt for religion. And in said venue where philosophy does nothing to further the conversation despite their clinging to it. Thank you very much.

I stated this in the context of scientific discussions. Read my original comment again. You're proving my point beautifully by the way, by fabricating statements. I never made the claim that philosophy "is meant to further science". If I did, please feel free to copy and paste.