Papers piled up on my desk

The science fiction board that I have played on for the last couple years seems to have been down for the last couple weeks. I have a backlog of assorted science-related web sites that I usually post there; to be able to throw out some of this stack of papers before the TV people come to film my chinchillas on Thursday, I am going to post the science sites here.

Space Flight Chronicle
Fish species
The People's Encyclopedia
Chemistry movies
Worm movies
United Nations population data
Population Reference Bureau
Questions in medicine and biology
Bugs that made history
About ozone
Swim with the ichthyosaurs
Free media for science teachers, mostly zoology
Medical acronyms
Real-time weather data from Natl Center for Atmospheric Research
Blood proteins
Geotechnical, Rock, and Water Resources Library
Science terms defined
Neuroscience database gateway
Space Flight Chronicle

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Ha! Got last week and this week's issues of Science News both today (along with The New Yorker and Rider and some catalogs and something else, I forget what...) Science News always runs a couple months behind on letters, so the September 4 issue is the one that *finally* has my letter in it. Yes, they published my letter! It was in response to the squirrel article in the July 3 issue... Hey, it ain't a real academic journal, but it's a letter in a science magazine nonetheless!
(OK, OK, it's a three-sentence letter giving a humorous response, no, it's not terribly scientific, but at least it's clever!!)

Hah, I ordered $80 bucks worth of stuff from Amazon and I'm still reviewer #826 with 945 helpful votes. I added another "so you'd like to" guide, did a whole bunch more ratings of books I own - and am still dropping in the ratings. Guess I'll have to actually write a whole bunch more book reviews.

And in other news, here it is only Tuesday, and I've sold 3 bracelets on eBay already this week!

And did I mention that as of my Thursday visit to my cardiologist, my ejection fraction is up from 20% to 25%? That's still only 40% of normal, but 25% is still a huge improvement over 20%. Of course, that isn't unmitigated good news - if it improves much more, I'll have to give up my handicap parking tag, and we wouldn't want that, now, would we??

Persephone is doing excellently at theater rehearsals. We are building her her own little green room to sit backstage, so that everyone who walks by can admire her and she can stick around to the end of the play for curtain calls.