Tee hee! Love the Wittmer metronome!!
If only I could let go of the fact that they skip several beats over the metronome...

Here's another one that reminds me of watching the Muppet Show with Dad as a little girl.
The Swedish Chef makes Chocolate Mousse!

"Putting science back in its rightful place"

How can we answer president Obama's call to put science back in its rightful place? Here is a short post by Steve Quake, a professor at Stanford, that landed in the New York Times. A great article about the challenge of academia.

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/guest-column-letting-scientists-off-the-leash/

The comments are also worth a read.

February fake-out

It's over 45 degrees today and it's wonderful. We went for a long morning walk down by the Charles, stopping for a refresher at Peet's in Harvard Square before making our way home. We spent most of the walk exclaiming about the melting snow and how we didn't really need our wool coats! Wow! This is what gets us excited these days. And this IS a fake-out because it'll be back in the 20s tomorrow.

Other than that, we've been enjoying our friends and plugging along with work. When it's wintertime, the company of others seems to ease the doldrums of the season. We spent last weekend in NYC with friends from Copenhagen and toured the MOMA, the MetMuseum, and lower Manhattan. A weekend that left us feeling refreshed and refilled.

We've also had a few dinner parties - winter stews, raclette and fondues! Yum.

I've added a new link to the blog list over on the right. Copenhagen Cycle Chic. I visit it when I'm missing Denmark. Which happens more frequently than people know...