Worth seeing in Portugal. It still surprises me that it took so long for the immense waves in Portugal to become well known.
Love the Dog
Jaroslav Věšín ,Czech painter (1860 – 1915)A Scene from the Balkan War (1914)
What can go wrong!
Dog park chaos in the sky.
Blowing your Gecko
There are a lot of videos like this. I had no idea. There was some debate that it was a bad thing to do. Better video on FB?
Dingo History
Their analysis constructed thousands of years of dingo population history—and helped answer several questions. For one, the study suggests modern dingoes do not interbreed with domestic dogs, contrary to what has long been assumed. Today’s dingoes share much of their DNA with their ancient ancestors—and very little with domestic dogs. Ancient DNA also revealed that …
Stellers Sea-Eagle versus Bald Eagle
Stellers Sea-Eagle versus Eagle Greens Harbour August 1, 2025. Steller’s Sea Eagle In Canada A great shot and rather astonishing given the uniqueness of the Steller’s in North America for the last several years. Things being what they are now there were immediate calls of it being faked. I doubt that with the nunber of …
The origins of atoms
This awesome periodic table shows the origins of every atom in your body: ‘Here’s something to think about: the average adult human is made up of 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms, and most of them are hydrogen – the most common element in the Universe, produced by the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. The rest …
Robotic Marsh Rabbits
In a wild new effort to battle invasive Burmese pythons, researchers in South Florida have deployed robotic marsh rabbits. Yes, you read that right. These solar-powered, remote-controlled decoys are designed to mimic real marsh bunnies, a favorite snack of the pythons. Outfitted with heaters to simulate body heat and motors to create lifelike movement, the …
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, by Ellen Meloy
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, by Ellen Meloy When Meloy, a desert naturalist, felt estranged from nature, she sought to cure it by stalking a band of bighorn sheep for a year in Utah’s Canyonlands wilderness. She begins in winter and feels cold and clumsy. She envies the bighorns’ exquisite balance as she …
Writer’s slab!
The bane of writers.