Gun-toting robo-dogs look like a dystopian nightmare. Check out the creepy video. Does he fetch, too?
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Sci Fi
A-defense-of-genre-literature I read Steve’s sci-fi discussion above when it came in by email. It reminded me of Steve’s interest in H._P._Lovecraft and the recent Jupiter pic above. My first thought was it was the Lair of Cthulhu, as did someone else. I saw these notes on Green Slugs and Green Slugs 2.0 earlier and it brought this …
A good update on homo erectus.
A good update on homo erectus. Erectus seems to be getting some love now. It is being talked about here like it is more human than the subhuman apeman, orc, or troll fantasies seen in popular culture. I remember Valerius Geist saying its first impulse would be to eat you. What evidence he had for …
Slowly through a Land of Stone
This is exactly right:
Ivorybill
I was going to get the Ivorybill note from Tim Gallagher in fast enough to post this cartoon, but Searun beat me to it! I will try to catch up today..
A Defense of “Genre “Literature
This started in a conversation with Chilton Williamson, late of National Review and Chronicles and now independent and writing a monster novel in Laramie. It spread to Bronwen Fullington, who attended a world science fiction convention when we were young and briefly married. The it transferred to Chas Clifton, expert in snake bites and cougar …
“World Class Bird”
In Kazakhstan, when nature photographer Oleg Belyalov finally decided that we were serious naturalists, he wanted to make sure we saw the best birds. We had been out for a long day, so he took us to one of the clear little trout streams that flow through Almaty, where, in a bush on the bank, …
Fall Fishing
Fall on the Margaree, October 13, 2021 Source Fall Run Margaree Salmon The weather here the last 2 weeks was perfect but not so great for salmon fishing. The water was low most places. I took my friend down to an unfished pool on a local river that runs though my land. No water, no …
Gallagher responds to Ivory Bill status
Gallagher responds to Ivory Bill status The government’s pending plan to declare the bird extinct comes too soon and ignores recent compelling evidence, writes Tim Gallagher, a bird expert who believes he saw an Ivory-bill in 2004. Still on the woodpecker theme, this priceless pic of a pileated woodpecker being a PITA is too good …
Malaria Vaccine
Malaria Vaccine I remember Steve saying how unpleasant it was when he had malaria.