Prior mention of the tiger book. I had the book out of the library for a few weeks and flipped through it. I didn’t read it but skimmed bits from the index. One bit that caught my eye was how tigers change ecosystems. They released a tiger into an unoccupied habitat where wolves were the dominant …
Month: March 2026
Chalk Streams
I saw this and while the premise is interesting, the quality video of the English countryside and chalk streams is really the draw for me. There are some beautiful spots there. I think it was filmed this winter when there is a lot of water around and things are lush. A prior post.
Project Hail Mary
My prior post. I mentioned it last fall. It is out now and has rave reviews. Masterpiece is being thrown around online. I read the book a month or so ago and it was a fast easy read. The writing was straight forward. There are many, many videos about the book and movie. I thought …
Home Boy Heroes
The algorithm pushed this at me the other night. I had seen some of the guy’s videos before and was curious what got him interested. It got weird fast. He was talking about some band I never heard of in very weird costumes. I was catching a vibe that they were Euros and or French …
Sea Floor Mapping
So NASA just dropped their most detailed map of the seafloor ever. We know so little about the ocean floor that this is. This is amazing. So they use a satellite called SWOT. SWOT S W O T, which stands for Surface Water and ocean typography. It is orbiting the earth right now and …
Jupiter
If I knew any of this I forgot it.
Canada Day Tornado In Didsbury, Alberta. 2023
Something I didn’t consider when I lived out there. A few km north of Calgary. Hurricanes here are bad but that is on another level.
Bear Dens
Black bears get creative with their winter dens. You could walk right by one and not even know! Each winter, our biologists use radio telemetry to find collared bears and monitor the population. Without collars, we’d never find them! Here’s where we found bears this winter: Blowdowns 37% Stumps 21% Brush piles 11% Ground …
Helium
I was surprised it takes this much. Hardly practical.
A boy fishing.
Carl Bloch (1834-1890), Danish painter. Title: “En Dreng, der fisker.” (A boy fishing). Date of artwork 1872. Oil on panel. Dimensions: 27 cm × 18 cm (10.6 in × 7 in). Exhibition history: ▪︎ Københavns Rådhus (Copenhagen City Hall), “Raadhusudstillingen af Dansk Kunst til 1890”, 1901, no. 169. ▪︎ Guildhall Art Gallery, London, “Exhibition of Works by Danish painters”, …