Critical response For the first season of Dark Winds, review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10, based on 36 reviews. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Zahn McClarnon is riveting as a coiled cop in Dark Winds, a solid procedural that derives much of its texture from an underrepresented cultural milieu.”[50] Metacritic, which uses …
Month: March 2025
Andrew Wyeth: Night Hauling
A really cool painting that caught me off guard. I am familiar with bioluminescent plankton so it made sense. I have never seen anything like it before.
Wind power affects raptor communities
Collisions with wind turbines are a documented threat to the lives of individual raptors. However, wind development also impacts the structure of nesting raptor communities, a discovery that could impact approaches to raptor conservation in the future. The team found that Golden Eagles, Ferruginous Hawks, and Prairie Falcons, all of which breed in the study …
China looks to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo River
The station is expected to be built on the Great Bend, a horseshoe-shaped section of the world’s deepest land canyon, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet. Located on the Tibetan Plateau just north of the border between China and India, the canyon is three times deeper and 37 miles longer than the U.S. Grand Canyon. …
Fungal Fun
Beautiful homegrown antler reishi mushrooms grown in a 5 gallon bucket, then dried and clear coated and made into a mushroom chandelier. The Fungi Florist Interesting but for specialists I think. I found this Common Script Lichen (Graphis scripta) growing on the north side of a Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) last week. The script-like …
Are dogs the new children?
In some countries, the number of dogs has increased so much that it now exceeds the number of children. While the emotional significance of dogs is clearly rising worldwide, it remains uncertain whether people are choosing to keep dogs instead of having children or whether other factors are driving this trend. “The number of …
John Grade | Reservoir
John Grade | Reservoir Suspended above a clearing in a grove of pine trees in the Park, Reservoir is composed of five thousand transparent droplets formed individually by heat and framed in steam-bent wood. The delicate droplets are attached to two transparent nets supported by tree trunks. As rainwater accumulates in the droplets, the position …
The Gorge Rises.
These paintings are by Cy Twombly, one of the most expensive contemporary artists. His paintings range from $2 million up to $75 million. Source
I had no idea.
For example, currently more than 70 different elements—that is more than three quarters of the naturally occurring elements—are needed to manufacture a phone. Magnetic Molecules That explains a lot of what Trump is on about lately. I remember hearing someone say rare earths are the new oil as a metaphor for importance. Not rare so much as hard …
Pandering?
Garden of Eden? Maybe not so much… Inspired by the discovery of an apparently new species of Paranthropus, P. capensis, which was a bit more gracile than the already known species. Tho we often think of big cats or even eagles as predators of these early hominins, there’s one kind of predator that wouldn´t …