Introduced in the Assembly, AB 2233 adds a section to the State Vehicle Code that states: A person shall not drive a motor vehicle while holding a live animal in his or her arm or arms, or upon his or her lap.
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Another Darwin Award Nominee
Inglewood man recovering after he’s bitten by rattlesnake he picked up. The man was bitten twice at Edward Vincent Park by a snake he thought was harmless
Was Napoleon Poisoned?
I’ve always found this story interesting and my recollection was that the preponderance of evidence indicated that he had been poisoned. But a new analysis of clippings of his hair done by Italy’s National Institute of Nuclear Physics has evidence that points in the other direction: “They conducted a detailed analysis of hairs taken from …
Fisher Populations Rebound
To the consternation of some suburbanites. I must admit I have never seen one. Spooky picture, huh?
A Unicorn lives in Tuscany
According to the Telegraph.
New book, blog
Read any books written by your neighbors? I just finished “A Year Without ‘Made in China’: One Family’s True Life Adventure in the Global Economy” by Sara Bongiorni, a freelance journalist who also lives in Baton Rouge. The book was a gift from another neighbor, who I believe bought it from the author in a …
Ban Mylar Balloons
I saw this offbeat op-ed in today’s LA Times that calls for the banning of mylar balloons in California as they can short out power lines and cause black-outs. The author, a state senator who introduced a bill to this effect, says Southern California Edison claims there were 470 black-outs in its service area caused …
Tracing Humanity’s Path
I just stumbled across this article that came out a couple of weeks ago, describing a statistical modeling study using genomic evidence that attempts to map how our species spread from Africa to populate the rest of the world. I’m really surprised this hasn’t gotten more play in the press. What I found most interesting …
Prosthetic Beak
Didn’t know if you had seen this interesting item last week about an injured bald eagle in a sanctuary in Idaho that is being fitted with a prosthetic beak. The final version will be made of titanium.
More on Isolated Tribes
John Noble Wilford has an expanded treatment on isolated primitive tribal groups that I briefly posted on last week. Apparently there are about 100 left, half of which are in Amazonia. Many of the rest are in Papua New Guinea. As I said said before, it’s astonishing to me that there are this many left …