Pluvialis continues to spellbind in reports on her goshawk adventures. If you haven’t been following along, you’re missing the show. A recent update included a remarkable observation about the kind of out-of-body experience common to many who love the countryside but live in the city. I hope Pluvi won’t mind a lengthy borrowing. Thinking of …
Month: December 2007
Done & Back! (With links)
I shipped off the remaining part of the book project last week– illos, captions, credits– and have my life back, though my brain doesn’t believe it yet. I have a HUGE backlog of links plus some photo posts and essays planned, but I don’t intend to do them all today, so bear with me. This …
Dinosaur Mummy
I saw several places this morning information on a dinosaur “mummy” found in North Dakota in 1999. “Mummy” really isn’t the proper term – the fossil cast is unusual in that the soft tissues are very apparent: “Unlike the collections of bones found in museums, this hadrosaur came complete with skin, ligaments, tendons and possibly …
More on Native American DNA
Matt and Chas both sent me this piece last week on another DNA study that shows Native Americans are most closely related to peoples in Siberia, indicating that is their point of origin. This isn’t exactly news, but is another corroborating study apparently done on a larger scale than most in the past. On a …
I’ve Just Finished a Month sans Internet and TV
I’ve just finished a month sans internet and tv. No saintly action, just a broken hardrive and an incomprehensible language, respectively.So I read every book I brought. Ran out fast.One of the books I brought was this monstrosity of a thing called The Executioners Song. I’d seen the film adaptation (loose use of ‘adaptation’), Cremaster …