In his 1930 novel “Last and First Men,” Olaf Stapledon imagined humanity’s future across two billion years, following civilizations as they rise and fall and tracing 18 successive forms of humanity through extinction, evolution, and strange rebirth.Stapledon called the novel “an essay in myth creation.” Rather than focus on individual characters, he considered humanity from …
Wendell Berry has passed.
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 A prior post.
INDIA TRAVEL POSTER, 1935
INDIA TRAVEL POSTER, 1935. K I Nixon, artist. Never heard of her but an impressive poster worthy of a Jim Corbett cover. I was very late in seeing the panther. A 100 years ago this scene would have been a lot more plausible. 200 years ago it would have been normal. Now not much is …
Pigeon Restraint
I never heard of this thing before. Maybe Steve has. Tons more video on the channel.
Raccoons as Pets? Some cons.
The greater risk lies in its interpretation. “People hear what they think is a scientific justification for having this animal as a pet,” O’Neil said. “People are not going to do enough digging to realize, Oh my God, this is a really bad idea.” I did not quite understand what she meant until I spoke with …
The Mystery of Scent
New University of Colorado Boulder research reveals that the wind itself plays an important role. As an odor travels, turbulent air changes the timing of odor whiffs in systematic ways, creating patterns that may be useful to animals navigating toward an odor source. The findings are part of the international Odor2Action research network, which brings together an …
Local Great Whites
Hello there Contender! One of the biggest great whites being tracked in the North Atlantic just pinged off Ingonish Beach in Cape Breton. Contender is a massive 13.8-foot roughly 1,653-pound male who has travelled more than 7,000 miles along the U.S. East Coast and Canada. Looks like he’s making his summer rounds through Atlantic Canada. …
Dumb as a Dodo?
But new research shows this image is misleading. The dodo was likely no less intelligent than any modern bird. It may also have possessed a rare and overlooked ecological trait: an adaptation to life in low light. Dodos probably weren’t that stupid Other Dodo posts.
An Arthur Allan
My Arthur Allan, signed 3 West Nile St, a shop I remember but was mostly fishing tackle and air guns in the 70’s and 80’s. Resleeved but a super job and handles superbly. Delightful gun and still used regularly. Not a name I know but a nice looking Scottish Gun.
FISHERS ON ‘SHROOMS
Researchers studying a forest predator known for killing porcupines discovered that nearly half its summer diet was mushrooms. The fisher, an animal famous for dismantling porcupines face-first and pulling muskrats from beaver lodges, was spending its Sierra Nevada summers eating fungi. The paper that documented it called the fisher an unexpected mycophagist. In plain language: …