Before refrigerators existed, people would preserve products that needed to be kept cold, such as milk, by putting frogs in them. In the past, each community had its own method of preservation. The ancient Russian and Finnish communities found a magnificent and very clever solution to this milk preservation: Throwing brown frogs called ‘Rana temporaria’ …
Author: Sea Run
A Nice Piece.
Wolves attacking a polar bear, carved from a 24-inch whale vertebra by an unidentified Inuit artist. James Hutcheson Dogs are more likely than wolves. Bob Kuhn 1920 – 2007 Polar Bear with Sled Dogs acrylic on board 16.5 × 23.25 inches signed lower left
Martian Wind in the Grass
There is no wind moving these dried stalks of grass. Specifically, there is no wind here on Earth moving them. Rather, each stalk is connected to a mechanical device receiving data from the wind sensors on NASA’s Perseverence rover – transmitting this signal from Mars. What you’re witnessing, is the movement of dead vegetation on …
Maine Bear Dens
How many times do you think you have walked right past a black bear den in winter without realizing it? It might be more than you think… Real black bear dens are much more inconspicuous than the grand caves depicted in storybooks, especially once blankets of snow further conceal their temporary winter homes. Bears find …
Shotgun Innovation.
source The usual negative comments in the link. 20 years ago I was at a SXS side show where Michael McIntosh spoke. I asked about innovating guns with new stocks finishes and materials like synthetics to make them more functional, weather proof and pleasing. I got the usual traditional pooh poohing mostly because they are status symbols as …
Bigfin squid
Bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a distinctive morphology. They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae. Although the family was described only from larval, paralarval, and juvenile specimens, numerous video observations of much larger squid with similar morphology are assumed to be adult specimens of the same family. The arms and tentacles of the squid are both extremely long, …
Brocken Spectre
Our Ecologist and Land Manager, Luke Sutton, captured this amazing image on Christmas day at Chinkwell Tor. It captures the phenomenon known as a Brocken Spectre, which is an optical illusion caused by the sun shining from behind a person and projecting their shadow onto fog. The shadow appears to look like a giant person, …
Vermiglio. Touted as good.
Shortlisted “Best International Feature” Academy Awards! “Breathtaking. A momentous vision of everyday rural existence in the Italian Alps. –Variety Vermiglio Something Steve might like since it is set in his ancestral turf.
A take on Douglas Adams
A take on Douglas Adams and his The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It seems well received from the comments. I am not schooled on it so it is for you to judge.
Kevin
The filmmakers then visited the Sacramento Zoo to observe a Himalayan monal for Kevin’s animation. Up (2009_film) It is highly likely this is one of the subjects in Beebe’s Pheasant Jungles which was chapter 32 in Steve’s book on books.