i need to blur this story a bit to protect…. well, the guilty, but someone who told me this tale in confidence. A few years a young woman, relative of someone we know, told us the following. She had worked at [fill in the blank with any famous Southwestern site] and other places, and proudly …
Author: Steve Bodio
Good News from Iraq
The Marshes are coming back.
Bernd Heinrich on Penguins
Vermont naturalist and prolific writer Bernd Heinrich, who knows a thing or two about birds and cold weather among other things, loved “March of the Penguins”. “As the movie continues, everything about these animals seems on the surface utterly different from human existence; and yet at the same time the closer one looks the more …
The Tazi Girls
The attraction of, and also the problem with “primitive” breeds of dogs is that they are intelligent. Interestingly, many pop boooks say the opposite; Oriental sighthounds, huskies, laikas are not neccessarily “tractable”– they figure things out, and you must work with them. This makes many people think they are stupid. As someone who has trained …
Of Pigs and Pit Bulls
How long can anyone sane continue to live in California? (Reid?) It’s not just the cost of living or the deficit or the smog or the crime or the massive illegal immigration– one might put up with many of those things for the glories. It’s the endless niggling laws, the superficial reverence for an environment …
Sacrificial Lambs
Have you ever wondered about the logistics of those burnt sacrifices in Classical and ancient Greece and Rome, or even in the Old Testament? Chas, hunter, professor, Pagan, and blogger, has…
The Pack
I mentioned the hounds in the last post but readers are asking how they are. During the summer the heat is bad for the muscular, greyhound-derived lurcher—tests by John Burchard have found that after a run in an outdoor temperature of 60 degrees F., the internal temperatures of greyhounds are in the dangerous range, as …
The Beauty of Weapons 1
Fall is in the air in the New Mexico highlands, and my hounds and hawk are restless, whining at the front door, or rowing wings in the quickening wind. You will be hearing more about them, I promise. But a natural transition from the fluted points of prehistory is the beauty humans– all right, mostly …
Yosemite Lawsuit
According to a story in the LA Times, a ten million dollar lawsuit by the parents of a climber killed in a rockslide may result in closing the park to all climbing. “In its first century as a national park, Yosemite has seen 15 people killed by rock falls. Given the more than 3 million …
Some Pleistocene Links
For those interested, here is Larry Agenbroad’s essay on how easy it would be to clone a mammoth, and why we should. And here is a serious paper (fee required for more than an abstract) called “The catastrophic extinction of North American mammoths and mastodonts” by Gary Haynes, which will explain in detail why it …