10 years, 2100+ posts. Here’s a random slice: I picked every 80th post from my dashboard.
- 2 July 2006: We drove out to the Eastern Shore yesterday to say goodbye to Marlie…
- 5 August 2006: If you’ve ever wondered why all the underground stations of Metro look so much alike, and why you can’t just glance out the window and find where you are from the color of the posts (as in Chicago, for instance), you have the Commission of Fine Arts to thank, in part.
- 10 November 2006: Daniel Mosquin photographs Mammillaria compressa at the Botanical Gardens of The Huntington.
- 15 March 2007: Another very complimentary review of the show: this one is from Michael Toscano.
- 19 June 2007: Thomas the NJ Transit train.
- 8 October 2007: My entry for Lifehacker’s Show Us What’s in Your Pockets gallery.
- 21 February 2008: Your vegetable fun fact of the day: tasty Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera) are cultivars of the same species that give us broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens, kohlrabi, kale, and cabbage.
- 6 June 2008: The last time I was in a museum bookstore, I noticed a DVD series called Art:21.
- 28 September 2008: As we parked at the Kensington Armory this evening to see a show—it was early dusk, about 7:15—we saw a sizable flock of Chimney Swifts (Chaetura pelagica) swirling about, ready to come into to roost for the evening.
- 16 January 2009: Potomac Stages and Alyse Kraus report the launch of a new shuttle service along the H Street performing arts corridor.
- 27 June 2009: Artomatic 2009 once again takes place in an unbuilt-out office building, this time a new structure atop the enlarged Navy Yard Metro station.
- 9 November 2009: Forum Theatre, recently relocated to Round House Theater’s Silver Spring black box, delivers a commendable production of Tony Kushner’s huge, seven-hour two-part play.
- 11 March 2010: John Brunner anticipates comment-driven media.
- 3 July 2010: A recent Earthtalk column summarizes research by Aiello et al. that calls into question the practice of adding triclosan as an antibacterial ingredient to consumer products.
- 13 November 2010: “MAX TARASOV. Arthur, no one come!”
- 20 March 2011: Via Via Negativa, a new botanical-entomological citizen science project pops up from U. C. Davis and the U. of Toronto: monitoring of pollinators of Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica and C. caroliniana).
- 27 July 2011: On my way up and down J Street (so you know I wasn’t in downtown D.C.) to visit Mom I passed this charming brick and terra cotta edifice, which turns out to be the Sacramento Turn Verein, now a German language and culture society.
- 5 December 2011: I know that it’s nothing fancy, but this neon sign that marks the entrance to a Doggett’s parking garage on 11th Street, N.W., with its helpful/hopeful HERE and jaunty arrow, just makes me happy.
- 14 April 2012: Mark Z. Danielewski looks for love on OkCupid.
- 17 September 2012: Mitt Romney and Barack Obama respond to the 14-point questionnaire from ScienceDebate.org and Scientific American.
- 28 February 2013: Martin Austermuhle updates us on the District’s gradual replacement of its street name signs with new ones that are set in mixed case.
- 8 September 2013: Alexis Hauk profiles Robb Hunter, armorer and fight choreographer.
- 21 February 2014: Amanda Rodewald, director of the Conservation Science program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, gives a 10-minute preso on bird-friendly coffee, in a video introduced by Gustave Axelson.
- 4 August 2014: Allan Savory gives a rubbish science TED talk and gets 2M page views.
- 26 December 2014: I visited several new spots, without making a big deal of it this year.
- 13 July 2015: A Festival that gives the design departments an opportunity to shine.
- 27 December 2015: Birds, habitat, coffee agriculture—and 10 ways of looking at Northern Virginia.