More Some odd stuff goes on in China. And then there is the wine.
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Mongolia, UV Snakes
In Mongolia the effects are stark. Among other consequences, deep freezes like the one that killed Zandan’s herd—known as dzuds—have been growing more frequent and intense. They used to occur about once every 10 years, but there have been six in the last decade or so, according to the United Nations. On the Mongolian steppe, …
Harpy Eagle’s Feet.
Harpy eagles, one of the largest and most powerful birds of prey, are known for their massive talons. These formidable tools can grow up to 5 inches in length, similar in size to a grizzly bear’s claws! With such impressive weapons at their disposal, harpy eagles are able to hunt and capture large prey, including …
Buckethead
It was another sleepless night and I was down the music rabbit hole again. The algorithm listed something called Buckethead. Buckethead??!! I looked and it was some guy doing a guitar solo with a KFC bucket on his head. OK, that is different! I struggled to remember if I had heard of him and just ignored him due to what looked like a …
AI goes senile?
We humans aren’t the only ones to experience cognitive decline as we age. Research conducted by neurologists and data scientists reveals that some artificial intelligence models struggle with visual, spatial, and executive tasks as they get older, suggesting that they, too, age away from peak performance. The study highlights an unanticipated problem with the world’s …
Loon and Lillies
Here’s a piece I carved into a loon awhile ago from a walnut stump I found in a ditch by the road while walking my dogs . Walnut is a fickle wood to finish as the hairs of the grain stand up when the oil finish touches it … you have to sand off those …
Eclipse
In 1991, Mexican photographer Antonio Turok took this haunting image of the solar eclipse, from Chiapas, Mexico. I saw this pic years ago and it stuck in my head as a great pic. We had a partial solar eclipse here last April. I am stunned it was then and not 2-3 years ago. The mind …
Beretta A300 Snow Goose
Shotgun Tech has been changing. I couldn’t find a video link off Facebook so I went with a screen shot. In this case, the top 2 arrows point to a suppressor, the arrow under it to a camera, the yellow circle is a mount for cameras, or other devices, and the bottom arrow points to …
Australopithecus
Australopithecus afarensis. In early 1994 National Geographic Magazine asked me to create, for the first time, a painting closer to our own ancestry, and closer to my own training (anthropology). The famous Lucy fossil had made her debut without her head twenty years earlier, and the new National Geographic story was about the discovery …
‘Falcon Trainer’ by Pavle Paja Jovanović
‘Falcon Trainer’ by Pavle Paja Jovanović (Serbian, 1859-1957). He is considered one of Serbia’s greatest “orientalist” painters. The Scottish School of Classical Art