sense and predation

While deer evade us through their sense of smell, another set of life, mosquitoes find us through the same sense.

Smell is not the only sense that aids animals. What does heat sensing fall under? 'moment of Impact' video on PBS about snakes thermal mapping and woodpeckers with their flexible tongues that wrap around their skulls to handle the pressure while they tap at the wood made me wonder how todays generation can learn so much more.

In Remembering smell, in the 'smell, memory' chapter, author Bonnie says that, Memories are remade with each act of rememberance and its evolutionary purpose was to enable learning; thus it must be highly fexible and subjective.

Experimenting even when the lab shuts down. olfactory cuisine. Achatz survived tongue cancer.

Word book

Meaning of Tingo

This book has words from other languages for which there are no equivalents in English.
The words have been sorted into chapters with hello ( the first any one should know in any language),clothing,love,marriage,divorce and so on...in the order they occur.
There are boxed English words 'False friends' which mean quite something else in other languages.
It is extremely interesting to see some 20 odd words for camels, snow and Thailand's capital when spelled totally takes up three lines .

June 8, 2006

Essay series

Best American Essays 2007

Afternoon of the sex children - Mark Greif
Shakers - Daniel Orozco
Passion flowers in Winter - Molly Peacock

writing:

Dragon Slayers - Jerald walker
Disappointment - Richard Rodriguez

May 24, 2010