Findings

Here is the July edition of Findings from Harper’s Magazine.  Findings  By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Researchers identified genes responsible for the smallness of pygmies, congenital spleenlessness, the blond hair of Melanesians, a 2.6-point increase in IQ (if both parents are carriers), and the similarities between the luminescent bellies of smalleye pygmy sharks and those of velvet-belly …

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Fire Season

It’s been all over the news, so I’m sure you know we have a bunch of wild fires all over the state of Colorado. The latest and most destructive is the Waldo Canyon Fire down near Colorado Springs. That’s about 50 miles away from us, and I took this picture of the smoke plume from …

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Jane Huntington Weiner 1917- 2012

Jane Huntington Weiner, Betsy’s oldest sister and surviving sibling, died, lucid to the end, in Massachusetts yesterday. She was born in 1917 in Anwei, China, raised (by strangest coincidence) with Libby’s mother Patty Lucas Adam, eventually came to the states, attended Radcliffe, and survived an adventurous youth to become a serene mother and gardener and …

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Silk Road Trilogy Project

An innovative approach to publishing and natural for Q fans, on so many levels: The Silk Road Trilogy translation project on Kickstarter! Central Asia, the Silk Road, falcons and horses, China, literature, cyber- publishing; what’s not to love? Please consider pledging a bit to make this happen- time is short! Russian Life’s blog will report …

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Weekend Links

… good, bad, & strange. Bear with my light blogging for a couple more weeks please! First, good: Tazi pix! Right from the source, Almaty & environs– the bearded ethnic Russian guy is Konstantin Plakhov, who bred our Ataika, seen here as a pup at Kostya’s there and as a matron, here, below. Libby with …

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Gratuitous Dog Pic

The Riss in “full suspension gallop”: Scribble, scribble, 71 plus and counting, tick, tick, tick…

In That New York

Phillip here, after a long silence caused by being in one place, I’m about to head out again, and hope to pester you more in the months to come. Thought I’d send a little goodbye/hello before I left. My grandfather fought in Germany. Not as a boxer, but as a soldier. After the war, he …

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A Few Links From Me, Too

Walter Hingley sent this link to John Hawks writing on the kurgans, the icy tombs of the Altai. I hope Reid has time to say more, as he can put them in context more than I can. Actually I have seen quite a few, in the Altai region of Bayan Olgii in far western Mongolia. …

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