http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress The Web Log of Science, Theology and Wonder Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:18:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "In fact, when I pick up the phone and see that it's her, I'm almost at a loss for words,"  said the reknowned poet and dramatist. "Are you kidding?  You - the master of the English language at a loss for words?"  I asked him. I was talking to the world-famous ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2493 January 1, 2010 - From Richard Rushfield, over at Gawker: Sanity is a relative term in the realm of Hollywood directors who generally function on a mental health continuum ranging from borderline OCD cases on the benign end to paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniacs on the deeper end. On that far side, James Cameron ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2480 Dateline - October 14, 2009:  An article by Mary Brian Durkin: Evelyn Underhill is recognized as one of Great Britain's outstanding religious writers. Her books, lectures, ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2472 Dateline:  September 1, 2009 - The September 7th, 2009 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology reveals a key detail in a stratagem of viruses to get around the immune system, identifying a protein that enables cyto-megalovirus to shut down an antiviral defense. Image of rhinovirus from http://www.virology.wisc.edu/virusworld/images/rhi-rhinovirus-3_CNN_NYT.jpg http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2468 Dateline:  September 1, 2009 - Physicists have generated the first theoretical model that shows how a coded genetic system can emerge from an ancestral broth of simple molecules.  They found that the properties of the molecules set the concentrations at which the molecules needed to exist for a coded regime ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2464 Dateline - September 1, 2009 - Chronic alcohol consumption blunts the biological clock’s ability to synchronize daily activities to light, disrupts natural activity patterns and continues to affect the body’s clock (circadian rhythms). http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2459 Dateline:  September 1, 2009 - I can feed upon and be built up by delving into the Word and letting it guide me to new places, including green pastures. My cup will begin to overflow and I will need to express this overabundance, this exuberance of spirit, by praying ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2454 From http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/auto/mechanical/how-to-clean-car-battery-terminals: Supplies: * A combination tool – battery post brush and battery clamp brush, obtainable at any auto parts store. These generally come in two designs, one employing wire brush elements and the other using two cutting blades and a reamer. Though old pros prefer the latter, ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2451 Dateline - August 10, 2009   I just finished "Ernest Hemingway on Writing" (edited by Larry W. Phillips) which is not a treatise on the subject written by Papa, but excerpts from his books and letters on the subject.   I culled the parts that relate to the daily writing discipline.  According ... http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2440 Dateline - August 10, 2009   As letters of the alphabet spell out words,  amino acids linked to one another in a particular order "spell out" proteins. Now scientists have examined how an enzyme responsible for adding one amino acid, alanine, to proteins has come to have its own spellchecker. http://sophiesladder.com/WordPress/?p=2431