New Yorker on Nora Roberts

The New Yorker has an article on Nora Roberts this week. Well worth it to seek it out. I was left feeling utterly inadequate  — the woman is a machine, writes for 6 to 8 hours a day, fueled on cigarettes and aspartame, and produces at least four new books a year — and exhilarated. It’s not so much that if she can do it,  so can I, but more like, well … hmmm, maybe Read more…

Random research

Are scientists great, or what? All I needed was to know one thing: well, actually to confirm what I already thought I knew, that the Earth’s core is made mostly of iron. It is, and I got it from this site: Ask an Earth Scientist