In 1903, the French government expelled the Carthusian monks from their monastery in the Alps and seized everything they owned. The monastery. The distillery. The equipment. All of it. There was just one little problem. Only two monks in the entire order knew the recipe for Chartreuse, and they had memorized it. There was nothing …
Author: Sea Run
How old are Humans
A decent video on the recent flux in the subject. More on the channel.
Saturn
This is the clearest image ever taken of Saturn’s North Pole. A perfect symmetrical storm is raging for decades now and it is over 30,000km across. First spotted by Voyager 1 back in 1980s. NASA Like yesterday’s falcon pix this was called out as AI. The falcon pix looked real enough but this sent red …
Falcon and Cardinal Finale
Winter (and nature in general) can often feel cruel, especially with some species that one might have a particular affinity towards. While I have seen our falcons catch birds on the wing before, having this play out right in front of me was admittedly difficult to watch. Both members of our local pair attempted a …
Cowboys of the Americas
I never heard of some of them. Some places have so few cattle I can see why.
Gulf Stream
Scientists are concerned that if the AMOC were to collapse, it could trigger drastic climate shifts, especially in Europe, where temperatures could plummet. How a shift in the Gulf Stream could signal the collapse of a major ocean current system When that hits it will be hard to predict how bad things will get.
Reading
The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau duly lamented in 1761 that “the Frenchman reads a lot, but only new books; or to be precise, he leafs through them, not in order to read them but to be able to say that he has read them.” Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose LOL Digitization is merely …
Sparrowhawk (Euro Accipiter) in the rain
The subtleties in this painting don’t photograph very well and is much better to view it in the flesh. This you will be able to do at Aberglasney gardens in April. Sparrowhawk in a rain soaked forest. David Cowdry Art
As Tolkein as it gets
A post-medieval packhorse bridge in an ancient woodland, Penmachno, north Wales….. I love it.
Kentucky Meat Shower
Kentucky meat shower Just when you thought you heard it all.