About the time Kennewick Man was paddling around Washington, people in Pakistan were having their cavities filled.
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Doug Owsley on Kennewick Man
Connie and I heard Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution give the after-dinner address at the Society for California Archaeology awards banquet last Friday night in Ventura. He spoke on his work on the taphonomy of the Kennewick Man find, something I posted on in February. It was an interesting and amazingly well-illustrated talk. Not …
Total Eclipse
I better blog this before Steve does. One of our favorites, Pluvialis (aka Helen Macdonald), treats us yet again with a sample of her casual brilliance. She is back from a visit to catch the total eclipse in Turkey. No need to go there yourself; just read the whole thing. “There I am, sitting on …
Lurchers
I picked up my falcon Tuuli yesterday from my friend Bodie, who had taken fifteen hares with him and his lurchers, including one of our pups, in a season that started in late January when I realized that I would not be able to fly him at all this year. We met in Albuquerque at …
“Mammoth” discovery
Ivory-billed woodpecker rediscoverer Tim Gallagher has a sense of humor, even if his skeptics don’t. For april Fool’s Day he sent me this:
Pacelle speaks
Reader and borzoi breeder Rey McGehee finds some attributed wisdom from H$U$ prez Wayne Pacelle. “The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect.”— Wayne Pacelle, Associated Press, Jan. 15, 1989 And again, lest you think he spoke without thinking of the implications: The life of an ant …
Growing “Meat”
Artificial meat— or more acurrately “test tube meat” — rears its ugly head again. I suspect if this ever becomes a reality it will give AR people another club to beat us with. And can you imagine the esthetics? Notice they couldn’t bring themselves to actually EAT it.
“Creatures”
From the unique blog Laputan Logic (which I should blogroll) comes this group of– sculptures?– that move across the beaches of holland. I don’t know what to call them but I think they are wonderful.
Canine Forensics
The Society for California Archaeology is holding their annual meeting in Ventura this week. In conjunction with that, Connie and I attended a presentation last night from the Institute for Canine Forensics. This group trains and promotes the use of dogs to locate dead humans both of recent and long-buried vintage. It is an outgrowth …
Designer Grits
Just so we can be ethnically diverse here, I have to put up this companion post to Steve’s on risotto from earlier this week. He gets to honor his Italian heritage – I get to honor my Southern redneck Scots-Irish heritage. This LA Times article says that grits are starting to move into high-end cuisine …