How hawks slip through tight gaps: A flight stability trick drones could copy Birds have a lot to teach us about flight possibilities.
America’s insatiable demand for British guns
America’s insatiable demand for British guns Apparently, the BBB has kicked in for the elites.
Boy Sea Fishing
Hans Heyerdahl 1857-1913 Norwegian painter Fishergutten – 1886 Oil on canvas – 84 x 66 cm Drammen Museum of Art and Cultural History Norway
Springer Salmon
Mr. Tim Foster looking delighted with this big multi sea winter Spring salmon, the first of the season, from the Soldier’s Hole pool at Altyre Estate on the River Findhorn. These springers as they are called are among the most desired fish in the world. Wading out deep on to the ledge in high water conditions …
Tigers Between Empires
Prior mention of the tiger book. I had the book out of the library for a few weeks and flipped through it. I didn’t read it but skimmed bits from the index. One bit that caught my eye was how tigers change ecosystems. They released a tiger into an unoccupied habitat where wolves were the dominant …
Chalk Streams
I saw this and while the premise is interesting, the quality video of the English countryside and chalk streams is really the draw for me. There are some beautiful spots there. I think it was filmed this winter when there is a lot of water around and things are lush. A prior post.
Project Hail Mary
My prior post. I mentioned it last fall. It is out now and has rave reviews. Masterpiece is being thrown around online. I read the book a month or so ago and it was a fast easy read. The writing was straight forward. There are many, many videos about the book and movie. I thought …
Home Boy Heroes
The algorithm pushed this at me the other night. I had seen some of the guy’s videos before and was curious what got him interested. It got weird fast. He was talking about some band I never heard of in very weird costumes. I was catching a vibe that they were Euros and or French …
Sea Floor Mapping
So NASA just dropped their most detailed map of the seafloor ever. We know so little about the ocean floor that this is. This is amazing. So they use a satellite called SWOT. SWOT S W O T, which stands for Surface Water and ocean typography. It is orbiting the earth right now and …
Jupiter
If I knew any of this I forgot it.