by Jane J. Lee | May 3, 2011 | Posts
I’ve always admired time-lapse videos. You can watch the seasons turn or cloud banks roil against a mountain range in a matter of seconds. One guy shot a time-lapse of himself driving across the country, although this takes several minutes to watch. After...
by Jane J. Lee | Apr 3, 2011 | Posts
I don’t normally watch reality tv, but I’ve recently started watching one show. Filmed high up in a tree in Decorah, Iowa, two cameras record the lives of a family of bald eagles. This weekend saw some excitement, with the hatching of two of the three eggs...
by Jane J. Lee | Mar 20, 2011 | Posts
Who needs an alarm clock when you’ve got the Whomping Willow wailing on your deck? Or Whomping Pine Tree as it were… The part that smashed into our house around 10:30 last night completed its ground assault early this morning (7:30am), waking everyone in...
by Jane J. Lee | Mar 19, 2011 | Posts
We’ve been having some intense weather today. Wave after wave of hail woke me up this morning – little stones clattering on the roof. Anything that isn’t nailed down has been wildly bouncing in the wind. Our power started to flicker off and on...
by Jane J. Lee | Mar 2, 2011 | Posts
Coming back from last week’s AAAS 2011 Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., some of my classmates and I went through Dulles International Airport. After a fun, but stressful, three-day meeting, I was ready to come home. But as airport security herded my fellow...
by Jane J. Lee | Feb 5, 2011 | Posts
I am an intern at an organization I used to work at as a science graduate student. I was really nervous about seeing people I had worked with again….I would not be talking to them about the latest data points my computer spit out, or the difficulty I was having...
by Jane J. Lee | Jan 29, 2011 | Posts
A friend of mine died one year ago today. Stomach cancer. It was quick, but not painless. When she was diagnosed it was already pretty advanced, and she wasn’t ready to go. Near the end though I think she was just tired. I hope it was a relief for her. I know...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 29, 2010 | Posts
Many people have heard about the great migrations Monarch butterflies undergo each winter. But I had no idea what they did the rest of the year. It turns out that entire generations live and die before we see the next wave of migrants sweep through California. The...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 22, 2010 | Posts
I started today with a plan. I would go into my internship and finish up an article about robots that never showed up. Then I would write a short piece about a local girl scout troop that won a robotics competition. But, an hour into my day, I got tasked to write...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 21, 2010 | Posts
I had a chance to cover a demonstration last week involving the military and unmanned autonomous vehicles (a.k.a. robots) for my internship. The robots were designed to fly out, locate wounded soldiers on a battlefield, and relay the soldier’s vitals like heart...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 14, 2010 | Posts
The thing with having such a common name is that it’s both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because googling yourself brings up tons of other people, all with your name, and you can get lost in the crowd. The bad comes when you go to the emergency...
by Jane J. Lee | Nov 6, 2010 | Posts
The ScienceWriters 2010 conference is jammed full of future colleagues. And there is a healthy contingent of Slug alums, in addition to us newbies. When people find out that I’m a slug, they have nothing but good things to say about the program (although I doubt...
