In the Hands of the Prophets

"Are you okay?" "Okay? I've forgotten okay. I haven't seen okay in what seems like years." Episode Summary Vedek Winn visists the station and causes a controversy when she declares that Keiko O'Brien's teaching of science about the wormhole amounts to blasphemy as far as Bajoran spirituality is concerned, since referring to the Prophets as …

How bad science misled chronic fatigue syndrome patients

I get all my medical news from twitter, and I haven't been on for a while (because typing on an android screen keyboard is too much like hard work when your hands and wrists have no strength), so I missed the news that Wellesley's team had been forced by court order to release the data …

Birthday Fun

We have a birthday coming up this week, and we're heading out to a second showing of Star Wars as one of the birthday treats. It's always a challenge to organise presents and parties for birthdays so close to Christmas, and it's difficult to make them memorable, as they're normally quiet, family affairs. When birthdays …

Stuff we’re using

October isn't over but since I never know when I will have enough energy to get on the laptop, I thought I would write an update now. There are lots of things we're struggling with at the moment, lots of things we would like to do but haven't been able. So instead of dwelling on …

Climate Change finals

I've come to the end of the Climate Change course, I aced the week 8 quiz but i basically failed the two-part final quiz, so i was a little bit disappointed though I wasn't surprised. Altogether i found it interesting and enjoyable, but it was hard! I realised I am scientifically challenged! I wanted to …

Climate Change Weeks 3-6

I realised I hadn't added any notes from the Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions course from Exeter University via FutureLearn since week 2, so this will just be a quick review.Week 3This week was essentially looking at evidence of climate change.I found week 3 extremely difficult, and I ended the week not sure that I …

Just Cook for Kids Week 4 Notes

4.1 Basic Concept: Growing a Kitchen Garden Maya emphasized how good home-grown fruit and vegetables are, and how easy it can be, and how children who are involved in growing their own food tend to make better dietary choices. 4.2 Guest Appearance: Rita Botini - Growing a Kitchen Garden We were encouraged to grow herbs …

Climate Change: El Nino

El Nino was mentioned a couple of times but I wasn't sure of the significance. This video seems helpful. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVZrw7bk1w&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7FVZrw7bk1w If anybody else has more resources, please share them!

Climate Change Week 3 Notes

3.1 What evidence do we have of the signals of climate change, including an increase in extreme weather events? In addition to written records over the last 170 years, modern records are able to be taken more widely and more reliably increasingly high-tech meteorological records are now possible, including data from weather satellites, weather balloons, …

Climate Change Week 3

I have really struggled to keep up this week, mainly because there were only 2 videos (one of which was hard to understand - subtitles would have been helpful) and the rest was articles. I just haven't had the time this week to get to the reading. One of the questions was how can this …