Quiche Moraine

From Gary Schiff:

This year’s National Night Out will take place Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Almost sixty thousand Minneapolis residents are expected to participate in more than one thousand events. Street closure applications received by July 14 are free. Applications received between July 15 and July 30 will be charged $100. There is a single online process to register your NNO event and apply to close your street. The names and addresses of 75% of the neighbors who approve the street closure must be submitted with the application. Signatures are not needed.

Minneapolis is adding a bike sharing program and considering allowing restaurants to serve food after 2:00 a.m.

Kelly McCullough, author of the Ravern series (starting with WebMage of fantasy/science fiction and dealing with artificial intelligence, magical computer technology, and mythology) will be making a local appearance here in the Twin Cities. Those of you who have followed the Twin Cities Creation Science Fair story already know the place: Har Mar Shopping Center. Or, to be more exact, at the Barnes and Noble at Har Mar.

The Har Mar visit will coincide with the release of McCullough’s latest book.

Day: May 25th (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00 PM

The grocery lists and dining tables of people around the globe are the subject of this provocative exhibit based on the national best selling book by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio. Hungry Planet combines mesmerizing photos with hands-on displays that explore issues of food in the 21st century – what people eat and where it comes from, as well as how different cultures approach the growing and processing of food.

Berry Go Round is a blog carnival covering any and all aspects of plants and plant life as represented in the blogosphere. These edition has some excellent offerings on plant mutualism, as well as a few exciting moments in plant springtime behavior. Enjoy!

When we last saw our insipid heroine-in-her-own-mind, she was proposing legislation to keep America safe for the dollar and joining her fellow party members in flirting with sedition. Reaction to both behaviors continued long after our last carnival.

Quiche Moraine is proud to present The Fourth Stone Hearth, a blog carnival that specializes in anthropology in the widest sense of that word: the study of humankind, throughout all times and places, focusing primarily on four lines of research: Archaeology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, and Linguistic Anthropology.