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If you haven‟t done so yet–
read the story at Luna Station Quarterly.
The orchard is named after Steve Sillett
and Marie Antoine, redwood canopy
researchers (who also fell in love!). I first
read about them in Richard Preston‟s
The Wild Trees.
This is a finding by E.O. Wilson. He actually put the pheromone on a live ant to see what would happen. Even though it was clearly kicking and moving, his colony-mates kept picking him up and returning him to the graveyard.
See „Hey I‟m Dead!‟ The Story of a Very Lively Ant.
Inspired by my sister‟s husband. One time
we visited a Wendy‟s with an extremely
messy restroom.
My brother-in-law reported
thinking, “Why bother aiming?”
I learned this from Carl Sagan and Ann
Druyan in “Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors”
Inspired by the never ending complaints about the BCS I heard over the years, I replaced it with a College Playoff system. When I wrote this passage, I had no idea just how numbered the BCS days were. 7 months after I wrote this passage, College Playoffs became a reality.
Paraphrasing my husband who was
greatly moved by a 2009 study.
See Dead athletes' brains show damage
from concussions
This is me paraphrasing my husband paraphrasing a comic from The Oatmeal
See Why Working From Home is Both Awesome and Horrible
In the 2006 Chic-Fil-A Bowl
(Georgia vs Virginia
Tech), little stuffed cows
actually did parachute into
the crowd before the game.
Virginia Tech football players do this (and Michelle Obama!)
In 2005 ESPN‟s Kenny Mayne did a
hilarious “The Mayne Event” segment
exposing all the quarterbacks who licked
their fingers before handling the ball. I
still remembered it seven years later.