nature

May 2, 2023

The Challenger Deep Brain

Jason Padgett’s brain opened a portal, and he stepped through it to a world of Mathematical/Geometrical artistic equations. And how he arrived in that strange and wondrous place was by brutality…. There are many wonders in our oceans. There are the surface areas where we swim, boat, fish, cruise, fight the waves, or give in… Continue reading

nature, science

brain injury, discoveries, savants

May 23, 2016

The Unfinished Galaxy. Mars: The No God Zone (Also: Lonely Woman’s Easy repair of the day; and a yummy give-away)

Mars is our next door neighbor . . . . It is the forgotten playground of a god, or God. Almost there. Almost Just Right. Almost Earth-like . . . more on that later. Smaller than Earth, it does have two moons so that in itself makes it nice to visit in my Lil Loghouse… Continue reading

astronomy, authors and books, home repair, links, men and women, nature

astronomy, authors, kathryn magendie, loneliness

August 12, 2015

A dozen interesting tiddlybits to make you go, “Huhn. Well now I know! Thanks Kat! You’re Special!”

1. Our interstates have a “system” to them. Odd numbers are north to south with the lowest numbers in the west. Even numbers are east to west with the lowest numbers in the south. Exits are assigned numbers to let you know the distance to the next exit—mile-markers aren’t always exits but they tell you distance “in… Continue reading

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cat alien conspiracies, health, kathryn magendie, science, stupid crap, Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop, useless useful information, writers

June 4, 2015

The returning . . . the Cove at Killian Knob

So, my friends. I have been gone from here a while. Other things and people and places grabbed hold of me, of my attention, of my time. But it has all been for the most wonderful beautiful of reasons: I have returned to my Cove at Killian Knob. Home. I am Home. I came back… Continue reading

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kathryn magendie, maggie valley, smoky mountains, western north carolina

January 5, 2015

Science Day: Thoughts on origins of life–snottites and all

(I’m continuing to repost earlier blog posts until I am ready to being new postings – soon. So, in honor of my snotty cold – eww – I repost this that includes Cave Snottites in Mexico. Hoping in the months to come to have some science, some book/writing related, some health related; whatever strikes my… Continue reading

astronomy, nature, neil deGrasse tyson, physicists, science

evolution, kathryn magendie, nova scienceNow, origins of life, science

March 12, 2014