Benjamin
Today we washed our car. Haven't done that in a while. In fact when my neighbor Erika came over and said she was impressed, I had to disillusion her. I told her this was the first time that I had washed a car as a married woman. Come to think of it, it's probably the first time I've washed a car since high school. What brought on this sudden vigor was that our friends the Richards's just discovered that their car had rusted to death right under their noses. This scared me pretty good as our car is relatively new to us, and I'd like it to last a long, long time. So I did some research on how to prevent that whole rusting thing. Apparently it is brought on by moisture and salt (hmm, no wonder we never worried about it in AZ) and exacerbated by having a dirty car, so you should wash and wax your car regularly! Revolutionary! Okay, to me, anyway.
I have begun my own blog where I'll be talking about science. Obviously I love science, and I also love explaining things, so I'll be doing posts explaining things (hopefully in simple terms) that I've learned from science. For the first while I'll be leading up to explaining what it is I do for research in my lab (I hope to make things more accessible than what's on that web page). The blog is called Seeds of Science and can be found at http://seedsofscience.blogspot.com/. My goal with this blog is to communicate more about science to non-scientists because science is playing an increasingly important role in our world. So go over and check it out, even though there's only a couple of posts so far.
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