2 Different Psychopaths: Deacon Jim Miller and Lindsay Clancy
I almost decided to skip this week’s blog entry because the subject matter is sickening, but I can’t stop myself from standing on my soapbox and yelling my opinion at the world. Deacon Jim Miller, so...
View ArticleMy Greatest Summer Reading Ever
I spent a delightful summer enjoying my choices of reading material for the season. Almost every day after lunch, unless we have an appointment, I sit on the love seat next to a sunny window and read...
View ArticleA 43,000 Year Old Piece of Ground Sloth Shit in Argentina
Scientists recently analyzed the oldest known piece of ground sloth shit. It is 43,000 years old and was found at the Cueva Cacao site in the mountains of Argentina. Scientists believe the coprolite...
View Article3 New Specimens of Scimitar Tooth Cat (Homotherium latidens) Found in Siberia
The scimitar cat (Homotherium latidens) was a wide-ranging species that existed for over 20 million years. Fossil evidence of this species and its evolutionary ancestors dates to 12.5 million years...
View ArticleThe Nature of Roman Aqueducts
The ancient Romans were impressive engineers. The original water sources near Rome were considered unsafe–fetid swamp water and rivers polluted with human sewage. To supply the increasing population...
View ArticleSumac Flea Beatles (Blaspherida rhois) Defoliated 2 Sumac Trees in my Yard
I noticed 2 defoliated sumac trees (Rhus sp.) in my yard, and I thought this would make an interesting topic for my blog. I was going to entitle it “What Defoliated 2 Sumac Trees in my Yard?” I...
View ArticleArthropods Hunting Birds
Life is a horror story. Human beings are born in a bloody process, and there are a million miserable ways to die. Lucky people die suddenly after a long life with fewer of the horrifying events than...
View ArticleThe Whip Tail Sharks
Thresher sharks swim into schools of fish and whip their long tails around. The force of the water stuns some of the fish, and the sharks are able to feed upon them while the senseless fish are...
View ArticleAnti-Drone Warfare
I see a considerable contrast between President Zelensky of Ukraine and Vice President J.D. Vance of the U.S. Zelensky is a strong heroic leader standing up to Russia and its despotic psychopathic...
View ArticleClark Quarry is the Only Active Pleistocene Dig in Georgia (as far as I know)
I thought of a new idea for finding new material for my blog. I asked Google AI if there had been any new discoveries of Pleistocene fossil remains in Georgia since 2018. Google AI said “yes” and it...
View ArticleStudying Acoustics
I’ve been practicing playing on a glockenspiel for 15 months almost every day for about 30 minutes. My wife complains that it gives her a headache, so I have to take it to a different room on the...
View ArticleThe Increasing Intensities of Pleistocene Ice Ages
There have been 50 Ice Ages over the past 2.6 million years, and scientists refer to these Ice Ages as Glacials. Ice Ages alternate with warm climate phases known as Interglacials, like the one...
View ArticleUsing Deviant Art AI to Create Images of Nature
There is a website called Deviant Art that gives users 10 prompts a week to create any kind of image they can describe. (www.deviantart.com). Each prompt produces 3 different images from the...
View ArticleNew Study Supports 44-Year-Old Hypothesis About Megafauna and Anachronistic...
Scientists recently found the residue of Chilean palm fruit (Jubaea chilensis) on gomphothere (Notiomastodon platensis) teeth. This species was closely related to mastodons, and I referred to it as a...
View ArticlePleistocene Megaherbivores Foraging in South American Tropical Jungles
3 megaherbivores roamed South American tropical forests during the late Pleistocene. A megaherbivore is an animal that weighs in the tons. Eremotherium, an extinct species of ground sloth, was the...
View ArticleVacation 2026-Magnolia Plantation Gardens, Botany Bay, Edisto Beach, and Good...
We stayed in Charleston, South Carolina for 2 days and enjoyed our annual family vacation. We visited Magnolia Plantation Gardens, Botany Bay, and Edisto Beach. Magnolia Plantation Gardens This former...
View ArticleNew Study of Dung Fungus Spores in Panama
There is a lot of scientific evidence in shit. A number of fungi species live in the shit of large mammals. Scientists take cores of sediment, carbon date the layers, and determined the species...
View ArticleSnail Species Composition and Ice Age Summer Temperatures
Advancing and retreating glaciers during Ice Ages crushed rock into dust. Meltwater pulses that occurred when climate cycles shifted to warm stages washed this dust into rivers. Then, when climate...
View ArticleGeneral Phil Sheridan in 1280 Words
Ulysses S. Grant considered Phil Sheridan the greatest general in history. The best example of Sheridan’s exemplary ability was his success turning defeat into victory at the Battle of Cedar Creek...
View Article2 Great Movies with Excellent Soundtracks from the Early 1970’s
I chose to watch a new movie on HBO a few weeks ago on a Saturday Night. A great movie, Patton, was on at the same time on the Fox Movie Channel, but I’d already seen it countless times. I watched the...
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