Queenkv’s Brainpickings

Our veggie garden’s growing strong. I think the last round of rainy weather helped all of my plants. Read more… or Read more right here… » Check out all the green leaves. I have three sunflowers standing up. There’s also green vines growing from my white potato seedlings. It’s quite exciting and satisfying to hang [...]

I’m excited about Bourdain’s “Disappearing Manhattan” show. New York’s a fantastic place to eat and Bourdain knows where to go for good food, beyond the tourists’ traps. Since it’s on during my sleepy time, I’ll probably watch the rest of it after my morning show. Read more… or Read more right here… » On my [...]

An ocra skull inside the Naturalist Center. Plenty of kids surfing the web on the Mac stations, a library of science books and magazines plus a documentary on cheetahs

We’ve been in the line for an hour. That’s after we bought tickets for the CA Academy of Science. Mark said the shark inside better be playing guitar.

It’s always a treat to visit Susan and Tom in San Francisco. This month, we explored some tasty food and some beautiful heart in Golden Gate Park. First, we needed some fuel for our museum field trip. Susan picked up bacon donuts. Yum! Sweet, savory and filling. We tried to visit the newly renovated California [...]

Viva my weekend. I’m taking it easy for these last days of being 29-years-old. originally uploaded by queenkv. Last month, we ended up in Lodi after the Stockton Asparagus Festival. An air-conditioned wine tasting at the Lodi Visitor’s Center helped revive us. The festival was fun but we were wiped out from walking through 100-degree [...]

It’s been a loopy week so far. We watched Discovery’s blast-off a couple of hours ago. I was quite tickled to watch CNN’s speedometer keep up with the shuttle’s mph. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Shuttle heads for space station Space Shuttle Discovery has begun a 14-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS), after [...]

I saw this on Digg and I had to watch it for myself. The Daily Background » Blog Archive » Video- “The Viewâ€? co-host doesn’t know if the world is round or flat. Good grief — I understand the need to take care of your children, but to use it as an excuse for ignorance? [...]

Typical. This story from the Topeka Capital Journal leads off with a sixteen yeard old who dreams about working on a science degree from Cal. She tells the reporter she knows the difference between science and religious theory. She said she’s worried Cal and other colleges will think she doesn’t know the difference. Then we [...]

LAWRENCE — I could not resist posting parts of this guide from www.kansasmorons.com. The guide also comes in a PDF file. I remember how my biology teacher at a Catholic high school kicked off her section on evolution. She started with a disclaimer of sorts. She said she understood that she was teaching something that [...]