by Megan Durham | Jun 18, 2011
And Sarah’s pictures are finally up from Mexico! Check them out, she’s an amazing photographer currently living in the Chicago area. As I said, our patio at the Sonoran Spa in Rocky Point was gorgeous. I almost couldn’t breathe the first...
by Megan Durham | Jun 16, 2011
I have returned from the dusty Mexican borderlands my hair a shade lighter and my skin several redder (I don’t get darker… at all). And while not all of Rocky Point is as pretty as this, the place I stayed with my parents was pretty damned gorgeous. Oooooh,...
by Megan Durham | Jun 13, 2011
It’s probably no secret to anyone on this website that I enjoy researching strange topics. Heck, most of the reason why I started this blog in the first place was because I realized that I was starting to annoy my friends/relatives/co-workers/fellow...
by Megan Durham | Jun 8, 2011
I don’t understand all those self-help books and articles that promote life-long learning as if it’s something special. How can someone continue living and not continue learning? Every day seems to be filled with an adventure of new things to...
by Megan Durham | Jun 6, 2011
To continue last Monday’s discussion on names, scientists get a bad rap for not being creative. Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist once told the following story:“I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I...
by Megan Durham | Jun 3, 2011
“Occasionally, legend and reality unite in the form of some remarkable soul who, through peculiarity or chance, assume a role resembling the mythical characters we read about in childhood’s fairy tales. The Old Leatherman was one of these.”-Researcher Allison...