While searching San Esteban Rockshelter at Big Bend National Park in southwest Texas, archaeologists came across a 6,000-year-old hunting kit that may be the oldest intact weapon set ever discovered in North America. The cache included part of a spear-throwing tool known as an atlatl, 10 shafts that connected stone points to the weapon, …
No April Fool’s
No April Fool’s I have 300 drafts waiting to be edited and posted. I am spinning in place on too many.
Tank Gilfillan
This is my human, my Dad, my best buddy. We spend a lot of time together. Dad involves me in many things. We visit people at nursing homes, schools, service groups, and businesses. Dad stays right with me and keeps me safe. Dad says there are mean people out there that would hurt a snapping …
Pole Shift Acceleration
This is gonna cause issues with my procrastination. @karensmith4336 Magentic field collapse has been known for a long time. I don’t know how accurate this guy is but he is citing data. I like Karen’s comment.
Dark Winds
Critical response For the first season of Dark Winds, review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 8.1/10, based on 36 reviews. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Zahn McClarnon is riveting as a coiled cop in Dark Winds, a solid procedural that derives much of its texture from an underrepresented cultural milieu.”[50] Metacritic, which uses …
Andrew Wyeth: Night Hauling
A really cool painting that caught me off guard. I am familiar with bioluminescent plankton so it made sense. I have never seen anything like it before.
Wind power affects raptor communities
Collisions with wind turbines are a documented threat to the lives of individual raptors. However, wind development also impacts the structure of nesting raptor communities, a discovery that could impact approaches to raptor conservation in the future. The team found that Golden Eagles, Ferruginous Hawks, and Prairie Falcons, all of which breed in the study …
China looks to dam the Yarlung Tsangpo River
The station is expected to be built on the Great Bend, a horseshoe-shaped section of the world’s deepest land canyon, known as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in Tibet. Located on the Tibetan Plateau just north of the border between China and India, the canyon is three times deeper and 37 miles longer than the U.S. Grand Canyon. …
Fungal Fun
Beautiful homegrown antler reishi mushrooms grown in a 5 gallon bucket, then dried and clear coated and made into a mushroom chandelier. The Fungi Florist Interesting but for specialists I think. I found this Common Script Lichen (Graphis scripta) growing on the north side of a Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) last week. The script-like …
Are dogs the new children?
In some countries, the number of dogs has increased so much that it now exceeds the number of children. While the emotional significance of dogs is clearly rising worldwide, it remains uncertain whether people are choosing to keep dogs instead of having children or whether other factors are driving this trend. “The number of …