[NOTE: Part II here.] As soon as I saw the headline for this article, I thought it might be about Peter Singer. I’ve written at great length about Singer before (see this, this, and this), and the title of the … Continue reading →
Meet Monique, the chicken that went to sea: I said to myself, ‘If she annoys me, I can always eat her.’ It feels weird to say that now! We formed a real bond. What the well-dressed chicken will wear in … Continue reading →
This makes sense to me, because although I’m not a cat fancier I hear they often like to hide in drawers. Case in point: Question is, how does the cat close the drawer? And in other cat-related news, one of … Continue reading →
The headline reads: “Snakes force Liberian President George Weah out of office.” So I wondered was it snakes, as in the Liberian version of Nancy Pelosi or Robert Mueller or Adam Schiff? And office, as in the presidency? No: Press … Continue reading →
This mother/daughter team has done something even harder than herding cats. Just watch:
Continue reading →If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to watch out for deadly mushrooms.
Continue reading →It’s a relatively slow news day in the USA. The big news is the midwest big chill. It’s really really really cold—although as a person who’s been in the midwest in winter for extended periods of time, I have to … Continue reading →
The winter solstice comes tonight and I, for one, am cheering. It may not be a holiday exactly, but winter holidays cluster around it for a very good reason: the beginning of the end of the dark days. Who wouldn’t … Continue reading →
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy—such as, for example a whole new supra-kingdom of living creatures. And it consists of some organisms that were discovered over a hundred years ago but … Continue reading →
When I first read the headline of this article—“‘Millennia of human activity’: heatwave reveals lost UK archaeological sites”—I imagined something like a fantasy movie in which some hulking ancient ruin comes heaving out of the ground, astounding the watching crowd. … Continue reading →
Two animals were actually killed and people were injured in a hailstorm yesterday at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs: Five injured people were taken to a hospital and nine more were treated on the scene and released, said … Continue reading →
Yes, Frog the rooster:
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