Ebooks Are an Abomination Some good comments but books and ebooks complement one another. The big downside of paper is the lack of images, etc. Most books are cheaply printed. I didn’t know that ebook usage had leveled off.
Author: Sea Run
‘Art’ 225,000 years old.
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-footprint-art-dates-mid-ice-age.html ‘Art’ 225,000 years old. An international collaboration has identified what may be the oldest work of art, a sequence of hand and footprints discovered on the Tibetan Plateau. The prints date back to the middle of the Pleistocene era, between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago – three to four times older than the …
Helen Macdonald, Euro Robins
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/ “I once saw [the writer] Helen Macdonald, who I think is a genius, ” I saw this reference to Helen and it prompted me to look her up to see what she was up to lately. I downloaded the Vesper Flights audio book which she reads. She has a good reading voice. Checking through …
Terror Bird
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4515981261814265/ A parent Devincenzia (a huge Phorusrhacid)has brought prey (Cardiotherium) to its chicks. A mangrove forest in Miocene South America. by Gabriel Ugueto I love these guys. T Rex 2.0. Steve and I read a novel I found about them. It sucked. Neither of us could finish it.
Warg?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1456655311080224/permalink/4510726782339713/ “The gigantic skull of the Hyena relative Dinocrocuta and one of the largest land based mammalian carnivores that has ever lived with a shoulder height of 1.9 metres and 300 kg in weight.” That beastie would do justice to Tolkien’s wargs.
Darwin Awards – Stuff Happens
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=5158114987548472&id=100000500665737&sfnsn=mo Arkansas Shit happens but this is in a new league.
Fundy Falcons
The Eldridge Gos image
Down the Shore
https://www.facebook.com/groups/530186287033641/permalink/4462922057093358 A few piper pix from Facebook down in Cape Breton over post Hurricane Larry surf too good to not post. Right click and open in new tab to see full image.
Peopling of the Americas, etc.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/prehistoric-america-atlantis/619819/ A rather poetic summary of the peopling of the Americas. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-meat-heavy-diets-restricted-hunter-gatherer-population.html Not a surprise but good to know.