With proud father and GREAT “Aunt” Martha Clark and with Libby:
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“Qualifications for a Traveller. – If you have health, a great craving for adventure, at least a moderate fortune, and can set your head on a definite object, which old travellers do not think impracticable, then – travel by all means. If, in addition to these qualifications, you have scientific taste and knowledge, I believe …
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“I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it, and one is the feeling that I haven’t been just sitting on my ass all afternoon.” — William F Buckley, Jr. I have not been blogging because I have been working getting my two books up to speed, so …
Albert Einstein’s Office
I am posting this picture as a public service for anyone (like me) who catches grief about having a messy office.
Pre-Clovis Mastodon Kill
Yesterday afternoon, NPR had this interesting story on the reanalysis of material from a mastodon kill site in Washington state that was originally excavated in the late 1970s. The reanalysis was conducted by the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M and they found that the kill dates to 13,800 years …
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The BBC tells us that archaeologists have found a 1,000 year-old viking boat burial in Scotland. That’s a seriously rusty sword and axe. A new study shows that much of the Paleolithic rock art in France’s Rouffignac cave complex was made by children. This finding supports similar points on the role of children in rock …
Cat Encounter
Cool pictures from today’s Denver Post. Up in Boulder, a house cat and a young cougar agree to disagree. Luckily for the house cat the door was closed. Click through for a slide show.
More Local Hawking
A few photos from a recent visit by my friend Chuck from Houston. Chuck has hosted me in the past and shared his fields, and I was glad to be able to return the favor last weekend. Chuck flies a very good Red-tailed hawk that is just starting its seventh season, and a Red-shouldered hawk also, …
Denver Art Museum – California Indian Collections
I had read in the paper earlier this year that the Denver Art Museum had totally revamped their North American Indian galleries. I was in to visit a few weeks ago, and wanted to share some new California tribal items that I saw. I thought the Condor feather cape that you see above was just …