Category: General Rambling

I’ve waited months for this on-line class I signed up for to start.  It’s over at Coursera, (https://www.coursera.org/course/humanevolution), and called “Human Evolution: Past and Future”.  It’s one of those subjects that my grandfather got me interested in when I used to spend the summers with them.

At any rate, I was watching one of the introductory videos and this lady was stating how her field studies were “Intellectually Stimulating” by making her broaden her interests.  That’s when it hit me.  That is exactly what has kept me in the fishkeeping hobby all these years…  it is very Intellectually Stimulating. Continue reading Intellectually Stimulating

If you haven’t seen any of C. Andrew Nelson’s videos over on Youtube you are in for a treat…..

You can find more of Andrew’s entertaining videos here…..
==>> http://www.youtube.com/user/Aquatasy?feature=watch

I ran across this great article about freshwater aquarium bio-filtration the other day.  It would seem as though, once again, what we took for conventional wisdom in the area of filtering our aquariums was incorrect.  I’m starting to believe that the longer I keep fish, the less I really know about it! Continue reading Aquarium Nitrification Revisited