The fox went out on a chilly night…
He prayed for the moon to give him light He had many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town-o, town-o, town-o, Many a mile to go that night Before he reached the town. Or to be … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Nature
Training horses for the film “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”: the horse has to want to jump
Remember those extraordinary diving horses we talked about a while back? If not, refresh your memory here. In that thread and in other online discussions, one of the big questions is: how are the horses trained to do that? There … Continue reading →
This is what passes for an eminent philosopher these days: Julian Savulescu [Part II]
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] Later on in his interview, the philosopher and bioethicist Julian Savulescu has much to say about what humans can do on the biological level to help make the world better, in the general … Continue reading →
This is what passes for an eminent philosopher these days: Julian Savulescu [Part I]
[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 →
Have chicken, will travel
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 →
“Scientists Discover Gigantic Prehistoric Cat in a Neglected Museum Drawer”
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 →
This headline promised more than it delivered
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 →
Training cats
This mother/daughter team has done something even harder than herding cats. Just watch:
Continue reading →Attack of the death caps
If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to watch out for deadly mushrooms.
Continue reading →The big news today is the weather
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 is here
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 →
Meet the hemimastigote
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 →