Grand Theft Auto deer Weirdness on a level I didn’t expect. More so.  

Think about it. I have this written on the flyleaf of Charles Pellegrino’s Ghosts of Vesuvius, a book about 9-11, Thera, the Antikytheria mechanism, and  Yellowstone, among other things. It is not in the book,  but states its theme exactly. “Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.”  Will Durant

I should have added this back when I mentioned seeing the Dune Movie. I started the post and forgot about it. SOP Anyway, too cool, not to post. Arrakis Simulated Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans could survive there  Complex models like this take time to run, in this case …

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Over- Kill Theory Prof. Barkai concludes that “we believe that our model is relevant to human cultures everywhere. Moreover, for the first time, we argue that the driving force behind the constant improvement in human technology is the continual decline in the size of game. They claim a huge data set.

“This is in Fredericton, New Brunswick Canada- made from roped and shredded Michelin Tires A statement on birds flying into glass. Very effective.” I am not a fan of most public art but this was clever.

  William P. Welsh (US, 1889-1984) Winter c. 1931 Art Deco, Streamline Moderne Illustration Is everyone thrilled? It can be a slog here. Steve will, likely, like the sight hounds.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Basin central Nevada, indicating that part of today’s Great Basin was the highest land in North America some 40 million to 20 million years ago. A lot has happened out there. I think it was in Querencia that Steve said the Basin was a favorite place.

The Strange Quest to Save North America’s Most Elusive Oak Tree Quercus tardifolia As a Querophile, this caught by eye. It has crossover themes to the Endangered Species Act, Ivory Bill Woodpeckers, etc. I sent Steve some articles on rare NM oaks and he thought they were on a ranch of a friend which was …

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https://phys.org/news/2021-12-indigenous-huge-unique-source-ecological.html The study, which interviewed a community of indigenous people in Doussala, Gabon, found that, on average, people knew of an astonishing 732 different plant and fruit-eating animal (frugivore) interactions, with some able to identify as many as 2700 interactions. This knowledge covered 100 frugivores from elephants to bats and 286 plant species. Impressive. It is their economy …

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