Venus vs. Earth

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-venus-earth-like-lithospheric-thickness.html while Earth and Venus are siblings, with comparable size and composition, they are vastly different in character, the Dennis and Randy Quaid of the inner solar system. (Venus is not Dennis in this analogy.) Ouch! It is never good when a planet scale analogy is needed because you are so ph*cked up. LOL

Rude Thoughts about Australian Fauna

From a letter to Jonafhan Hanson;  That was me talking, not Tim Flannery (who found a big one full of personalty and ideas in his marvelous Throwim Away Leg, which i discovered Tim  in when I reviewed him, when i was first- string reviewer for the Minneapolis Star Trib,  under Chris Waddington, one of the …

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2022 wrap ups.

The top 10 discoveries about ancient people from DNA in 2022 John Hawks take on the biggest DNA news this year. He would know. More year end wrap ups at Quanta. 74 Things That Blew Our Minds in 2022 Some weird, some interesting. Some posted here. Happy New Year!