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Sep. 5th, 2009
August Ice Revisited
Sep. 5th, 2009 07:43 amMy dad gave me the disc of his pictures from our vacation to Iceland and Greenland. I was going to hold off of posting them until he posted them himself, but--eh the heck with that idea. He's going to post his on Facebook anyway, so I'll just hold off from posting them there while he does his thing. Anyway, he took these pictures on this day.
Here's Karl, captain of the Put-tut, capturing a small iceberg for our amusement.
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Here's Karl, captain of the Put-tut, capturing a small iceberg for our amusement.
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I'm boring so here are some links
Sep. 5th, 2009 07:15 pmI have a number of creative posts in the back of my head, but they don't seem to be making their way to my fingertips. I did however spend some time looking at the aggregator Fark, and did some metaaggregating for your convenience:
Firstly I learned the poor saps in Great Britain are deprived of hummingbird moths, one of my favorite lepidopteran families. Fortunately it's Global Warming to the rescue as North African hummingbird moths drift up to Britain in increasing numbers. Naturally, the hottest spot for recent sightings is in London.
Second, some sparty-pants geneticists have investigated just where and when in human history our bodies started tolerating milk from cows. A mutation which allows some of us to eat the stuff without explosive diarrhea, obnoxious flatulence, projectile vomiting, or death, was traced to the middle of Europe about 7500 years ago. Hopefully a domestic animal researcher or two will use this data to help trace the history and use olivestock--a pet subject of mine.
Speaking of pet livestock, another group of researchers have opened up a controversial can of worms by positing an alternate theory of how and when and why dogs were domesticated. They put the date at no more than 16,300 years ago (which jibes with mainstream thinking); the location: China; the purpose: deliciousness. Personally, I think that the Coppinger village dog hypothesis (dogs domesticated themselves when some wolves who happened to be smaller and more docile started hanging around people and eating their garbage) still makes more sense, but this other theory could be dovetailed into it. That makes more sense than the idea of someone trying to round up wolves in a pen to be made into dog foo yung. They better be damn tasty to be worth all the risk.
Firstly I learned the poor saps in Great Britain are deprived of hummingbird moths, one of my favorite lepidopteran families. Fortunately it's Global Warming to the rescue as North African hummingbird moths drift up to Britain in increasing numbers. Naturally, the hottest spot for recent sightings is in London.
Second, some sparty-pants geneticists have investigated just where and when in human history our bodies started tolerating milk from cows. A mutation which allows some of us to eat the stuff without explosive diarrhea, obnoxious flatulence, projectile vomiting, or death, was traced to the middle of Europe about 7500 years ago. Hopefully a domestic animal researcher or two will use this data to help trace the history and use olivestock--a pet subject of mine.
Speaking of pet livestock, another group of researchers have opened up a controversial can of worms by positing an alternate theory of how and when and why dogs were domesticated. They put the date at no more than 16,300 years ago (which jibes with mainstream thinking); the location: China; the purpose: deliciousness. Personally, I think that the Coppinger village dog hypothesis (dogs domesticated themselves when some wolves who happened to be smaller and more docile started hanging around people and eating their garbage) still makes more sense, but this other theory could be dovetailed into it. That makes more sense than the idea of someone trying to round up wolves in a pen to be made into dog foo yung. They better be damn tasty to be worth all the risk.
