Some of my leather wallets made entirely by hand, without the use of machines. Kamil Lukasczyk These are nice and a wallet being with me all the time it is justifiable vs a lot of other things.
Month: February 2025
Don’t tell RFK Jr
Before refrigerators existed, people would preserve products that needed to be kept cold, such as milk, by putting frogs in them. In the past, each community had its own method of preservation. The ancient Russian and Finnish communities found a magnificent and very clever solution to this milk preservation: Throwing brown frogs called ‘Rana temporaria’ …
A Nice Piece.
Wolves attacking a polar bear, carved from a 24-inch whale vertebra by an unidentified Inuit artist. James Hutcheson Dogs are more likely than wolves. Bob Kuhn 1920 – 2007 Polar Bear with Sled Dogs acrylic on board 16.5 × 23.25 inches signed lower left
Martian Wind in the Grass
There is no wind moving these dried stalks of grass. Specifically, there is no wind here on Earth moving them. Rather, each stalk is connected to a mechanical device receiving data from the wind sensors on NASA’s Perseverence rover – transmitting this signal from Mars. What you’re witnessing, is the movement of dead vegetation on …
Maine Bear Dens
How many times do you think you have walked right past a black bear den in winter without realizing it? It might be more than you think… Real black bear dens are much more inconspicuous than the grand caves depicted in storybooks, especially once blankets of snow further conceal their temporary winter homes. Bears find …
Shotgun Innovation.
source The usual negative comments in the link. 20 years ago I was at a SXS side show where Michael McIntosh spoke. I asked about innovating guns with new stocks finishes and materials like synthetics to make them more functional, weather proof and pleasing. I got the usual traditional pooh poohing mostly because they are status symbols as …
Bigfin squid
Bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a distinctive morphology. They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae. Although the family was described only from larval, paralarval, and juvenile specimens, numerous video observations of much larger squid with similar morphology are assumed to be adult specimens of the same family. The arms and tentacles of the squid are both extremely long, …