This rather amazing photo comes from an article describing rhino translocations in South Africa using helicopters. From one of the pictures it looks like they are just using a Huey to do this – I would have thought it would have required a stouter helo. It’s too soon to tell how the ouster of Kadafi …
Author: Reid Farmer
Poem
Vulture I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillsideAbove the ocean. I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheelinghigh up in heaven,And presently it passed again, but lower and nearer, its orbitnarrowing,I understood thenThat I was under inspection. I lay death-still and heard the flight-feathersWhistle above me and make …
Spotted Horses in Paleolithic Art
I really enjoyed this article in the NY Times about horses in Pleistocene cave art. From what I have seen in the literature, most researchers seem to believe that animals represented in Eurasian cave art are accurate depictions of the animals living in our ancestors’ environment. For example, in The Nature of Paleolithic Art, Dale …
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The Department of Defense has big plans to keep our soldiers going on caffeinated jerky. (H/T Via Meadia) And keeping with the jerky theme, a guy who was in my Boy Scout troop in Memphis is CEO of a company that is producing bacon jerky. Coming to a Walmart near you. My fellow Faulkner fans …
White Wednesday
Hard to believe it was 70 degrees on Monday afternoon.
Obligatory Grandkid Photo
That’s Bella on the left in her R2D2 costume last night. The little devil on the right is her pal Stella.
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The NY Times tells us about Animal Cannibals. Well they did get a catchy title: “It’s a Toad Eat Toad World.” And you complained about my laughing stalk. Charles Mann tells us How the Potato Changed the World, an extract from his estimable book 1493. Great potato picture, huh? Get the book. A paleoanthropologist from …
Denver Art Museum – Maynard Dixon
I posted a couple of weeks ago about a recent visit to the Denver Art Museum. The new director there, who shook up the Native American exhibits, is apparently a Maynard Dixon expert. I’ve posted before how much I enjoy Maynard Dixon’s work so it was nice to see that the new director has had …
A380
Brace yourselves for one of my aircraft geek posts. The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world, capable of carrying up to 850 passengers. The big two-decker has been operational for about four years but as it services a limited number of US airports (LAX, San Francisco, JFK, Dulles, and Miami) most …
And Still More Shelves
It occurred to me after Steve posted his bookshelf pictures that we had done something similar about four years ago. I thought of a slightly different angle – I’ll post pictures of some of our cookbooks (and other food-related books) that we keep in shelves in the back hall near the kitchen. You can see …