The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau duly lamented in 1761 that “the Frenchman reads a lot, but only new books; or to be precise, he leafs through them, not in order to read them but to be able to say that he has read them.” Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose LOL Digitization is merely …
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Sparrowhawk (Euro Accipiter) in the rain
The subtleties in this painting don’t photograph very well and is much better to view it in the flesh. This you will be able to do at Aberglasney gardens in April. Sparrowhawk in a rain soaked forest. David Cowdry Art
As Tolkein as it gets
A post-medieval packhorse bridge in an ancient woodland, Penmachno, north Wales….. I love it.
Kentucky Meat Shower
Kentucky meat shower Just when you thought you heard it all.
Sargassum Solution?
Hopeful but likely a lot more to it. Likely needs massive amounts of fresh water. I never thought it would be this much of a problem.
Incan Engineering
Incan Engineering, earthworks and stone work have been fascinating people for a long time. There is much that the public doesn’t hear about like this example. The inhabitants spent a lot of time modifying their environment. Incans get the credit but they were only one culture in a long chain of them there. Outside the Andes, …
Appalachian Jaguars
Somewhat interesting that they may have ranged that far. The reference he cites is intriguing.
Bizarre Tool
Falconer Les Boyd passed away in 2019, but his conservation legacy lives on in this rubber hat. Boyd designed the copulation hat (a.k.a. insemination hat or sex hat) in the early 1970s and as a result, saved a species. (Boyd appears a photo from the Peregrine Fund wearing an early version of his hat.) In …
Incredible Scroll
Made for Charles Gordon the eccentric Victorian collector – as with most of his incredible collection, he never fired them. 16-bore; 30 3/4″ barrel (original length) completed February 1st 1890 (long after percussion became obsolete) If you want to know what original colour case hardening, and blacking looked like from the greatest era these …
Death Gulch
“Wahb Springs” “Death Gulch” Evocative names. But where do they come from? Today’s Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles has the origin story. https://www.usgs.gov/…/yellowstones-wahb-springs-and… The 1900 book The Biography of a Grizzly, by Ernest Thompson Seton (one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America), is a fictional story about the life of a grizzly bear named …