Don’t know how I hadn’t found it before (or for that matter exactly how I did) but Bookride may be the best bibliophile site I have ever seen. It is written by a long- time bookseller with a shop in Charing Cross Road, for people like me– people who in the words of Albuquerque bookman …
Woodland Park
I kept forgetting to post this picture of a great antler arch we saw in the town of Woodland Park while on our way to the Florissant Fossil Beds some days back. Also, great views of Pike’s Peak from Woodland Park.
Caffeine Addicts Rule
Wonderful news for us coffee junkies that long-term coffee drinking does not appear to increase a person’s risk of early death and may cut a person’s chances of dying from heart disease. Between the recently documented benefits of drinking coffee and red wine some of us have a good chance of living to 150 or …
Lake Ontario Shipwreck from 1780
The deep, cold fresh waters of the Great Lakes seem to provide the best environment for the preservation of old shipwrecks. The latest example is the 1780 wreck of the British warship HMS Ontario recently found at the bottom of Lake Ontario. According to this report the ship is the oldest wreck ever found in …
Older Dates
Now here’s an odd one. Reports say that a 2,000 year-old date seed recovered from the famous archaeological site of Masada in Israel has successfully germinated. This breaks the old record for an old germinating seed previously held by a 700 year-old lotus seed recovered in China. I have heard apocryphal stories of corn or …
Grease Rustlers
A couple of weeks ago, a post of mine mentioned in passing that demand for biofuels seems to be driving an increase in thefts of used kitchen grease in New York. Today’s Denver Post notes the same phenomenon occurring here in Colorado. In 2000, used fryer oil was trading for 7.6 cents per pound. Recently …
Bird Update
They grow a lot in four weeks, don’t they?
Sheep Herding
It has been snowing on Cat Urbigkit up in Wyoming (and Peculiar on the river in Utah) but it makes the steppes green. The puppies are bonding with the sheep, and all is right with the world.
Links
A liberal university prof, female, decides to find out about guns and is both sane and fair, though some friends are predictably horrified. This is the fifth in a series and all are worth reading, as I suspect future installments will be, as is her regular non- gun blog, particularly good on reading and writing, …
HSUS Targets Tiny Non-research Universities in Pushover Campaign
At least, that’s the idea. Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Humane Society of the United States has shifted the focus of its ongoing campaign to eliminate the use of animals in the nation’s research institutions by encouraging smaller, teaching-based universities to sign pledges “not to subject any research animals to ‘severe’ unrelieved …