Author: Serene Sargent

I make jewelry and try to read everything on the US Civil War and Reconstruction that comes out, (thereby knowing many smart people.) I know a bit of law, care about Beatles historiography and love the Nagras. Jane Austen whispered her Emma secrets to me across many miles and 200 years. ✨ My father was Bill Sargent, the Pay Per View Beatles guy. #DYRBRY

tear down the wall

It’s amazingly catchy, once it starts and there’s nothing to interrupt it. One short, simple loop. One short, simple question.

Key to speeding up carbon sequestration discovered

Quote from eurekalert.org: “Scientists at Caltech and USC have discovered a way to speed up the slow part of the chemical reaction that ultimately helps the earth to safely lock away, or sequester, carbon dioxide into the ocean. Simply adding a common enzyme to the mix, the researchers have found, can make that rate-limiting part of the process go 500 times faster.”

RANDOM AUDIO: I Am Way More Obsessed with HPAI than you are

Influenza, in all its forms, is the master of mutation, making it irresistible to a “bug” junkie like me. So when the 2014-2015 outbreak swept across the country, mutating as it went, and in the end causing 48± million birds to be euthanized; the system unable to keep up with the wildfire outbreak despite rushing…

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MIT – Greatest Hits

Kick it up a notch? Intro to Solid State Chemistry – MIT 3.091 (When MIT makes statements like “introductory level” I don’t think they have a normal concept of the term. Nonetheless, no harm, no foul. And one of their very best courses with one of the very best professors, Prof. Grossman, is also one…

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MOOC Mania

  I have become a certified MOOC freak. There are several different platforms for MOOCS – Massive Open Online Courses – such as edX and Coursera, and happily many others are available on YouTube. (Many are available through those platforms as well as on YouTube.) I prefer the edX platform if I use one. I…

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