I just wanted to jump in to talk about Steve’s post on that beautiful etching on bone of a mammoth or mastodon recently discovered in Florida. The only thing I can think of that is anything like it is this carving that was found in the 1870s at Tequixquiac in central Mexico. It is the …
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More Early Learning Experiences
I couldn’t resist throwing in a couple of my favorite pictures. That’s our daughter Lauren, age 18 months (?) working on the excavation of a rockshelter in the foothills west of Denver. You’ll have to guess who that tall brunette is standing behind her. Here’s our son Travis, age 4, helping trowel out a level …
Manteca
And speaking of animal by-products: courtesy of Michael Blowhard we find that in the world of fashionable food, lard is again cool.
Canned Meats of the World
I absolutely had to share this tour of canned meat from around the world that I ran across. Had to post the picture of my personal favorite, the brown curry mole crickets, though it barely won out over the BBQ flavor bamboo worms. How many brands on this list have you eaten? I believe I’m …
Space Archaeology
A professor and grad student from LSU (you should be proud, Matt!) have an op-ed in the LA Times calling for the preservation of historic sites off-planet, such as Tranquility Base on the moon. Good forward thinking. Also a priceless item in the comments. One commenter wants verifiable photos of Tranquility Base to prove the …
Catching Fire
A review in the NY Times of this new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, made it zoom right to the top of my “to buy” list. The author, Richard Wrangham, is an anthropologist at Harvard, and takes an evolutionary approach to the advantages of cooked food. Some enticing quotes: Apes began to …
Joys of Home Ownership
While we were in California for our daughter’s wedding – actually during the reception – the young lady who was house-sitting for us called to tell us that sewage was flowing out of the shower drain in our basement bathroom. She called a plumber us and we found there was a blockage in the line …
Spring Shift at the Feeder
Though much delayed by our cool wet spring, in the last week or so we’ve had a number of our seasonal visitors finally making their appearance. The winter residents like the chickadees and juncos have moved back to the mountains, while this male black-headed grosbeak showed up on Sunday. He was accompanied by this female. …
A Fisherman
I suppose the Memorial Day holiday made me think of it, but I wanted to put up one of my favorite pictures of my grandfather, Travis Reid. Quite a while ago, I posted a picture of him as a young man, and what I said about him in that post still stands. As near as …
Camarillo Connie
While we were in California for the wedding, Connie and I made a quick run up to Santa Barbara (before the fires started!) to see our son, Travis. We took the scenic route on US 1, through Santa Monica and Malibu and past Point Dume and Point Mugu. Highly recommended – I swear the water …