Michael Shay's Hummingbirdminds

In Richard Powers' novel "Bewilderment," Theo Byrne’s nine-year-old son Robin may have ADHD or Asberger’s or is somewhere on t...

The Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center  web site has become the key Covid-19 site in the U.S. and probably worldwide. Stats as of 5/1...

"You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood ... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ...

Is anyone else checking those daily COVID-19 tallies from Johns Hopkins University ? It's become a habit. It's always bad news. Th...

Did you know that we had a "science geek" in the White House? For now, anyway. He points us toward the future even while the incom...

Did you know that if you're older than 60, docs don't want your bone marrow? I found that out by perusing the web site for the Be...

Throw in a few clumps of sage and a tumblin' tumbleweed and this might look like Wyoming's Red Desert. But this is Rocknest on Mar...

This sounds great -- and I can't wait for the book by this fine Wyoming writer: Dr. Mark Miller, Wyoming’s State Archaeologist, will c...

This will drive the fundies crazy (from a UW press release): Two of the world’s leading evolutionary researchers, Peter and Rosemary Gra...

This L.A. Times article on Cheyenne's new super-computer has so many cool, mind-blowing facts in it, and it's so well-written by S...

Suicide, especially teen suicide, is a scourge in Wyoming. Instead of casting blame, better to get more and better information from the  Nat...

This news comes from Gregory Hinton: “I would like you to be among the first to know the preliminary results of my recent research at the ...

This event is in L.A., located several miles away from Cheyenne. However, it's being organized by Gregory Hinton, who grew up in Cody ...

You remember Gregory Hinton. I wrote about Greg and his staged reading in Laramie of “Beyond Brokeback” on these pages in April. Greg Hi...

Seems that I will always have material for weekend blogging as long as the local Radical Christian Right is on the job. Harlan Edmonds wro...

Insignia for the first shuttle launch We were just outside of Hogtown when the first Shuttle went up. Other cars joined us along the side...

The Wyoming Outdoor Council reposted a long article by ProPublica about a new study on fracking by four researchers at Duke University. This...

This was on Fox, so it must be true: Pentagon researchers have taken  robots  for a science fiction spin, building a robotic hummingbird th...

Purely a social construct? I never thought that, but others did -- and do. Partly a social construct, I would have said. So, this study is n...

From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/01/health/01attention.html?hpw