I think I remember Steve describing Kestrels in A Rage for Falcons as a Bug Hawk in falconry terms. Neat birds but limited in what prey they could handle. This picture captures what he meant.

Swedish Wolf Hunt

Those mysterious cave dots explained? It sounds like a pretty big deal if it holds up.

Dogs’ Tails Not a total surprise but cute.

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-venus-earth-like-lithospheric-thickness.html while Earth and Venus are siblings, with comparable size and composition, they are vastly different in character, the Dennis and Randy Quaid of the inner solar system. (Venus is not Dennis in this analogy.) Ouch! It is never good when a planet scale analogy is needed because you are so ph*cked up. LOL

Indigenous Continent – The Epic Contest For North America

From a letter to Jonafhan Hanson;  That was me talking, not Tim Flannery (who found a big one full of personalty and ideas in his marvelous Throwim Away Leg, which i discovered Tim  in when I reviewed him, when i was first- string reviewer for the Minneapolis Star Trib,  under Chris Waddington, one of the …

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