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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 researched all the possible culprits and went outside to photograph the defoliated trees. Lo and behold, I [ ]
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 the average person suffers through during their time on earth. But most of us won t be so fortunate. [ ]
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 rendered immobile from the shock wave. The tails can also be used to defend themselves from larger sharks. [ ]
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 leader. Ukraine has defied the odds and is now gradually wearing Russia down after more than 4 years of war against a much [ ]
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 cited a paper published in 2012. I pointed out the date of the paper to Google AI, [ ]
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 other side of the house. Usually, I take it to our bedroom, but 1 day the cat [ ]
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 present day earth is experiencing, Scientists recently analyzed how intense each Ice Age was compared to others. They used data from [ ]
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 description. The first images I created were kinky sex scenarios that I m not going to share here. It soon occurred to me that [ ]
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 mastodon in last week s blog entry. This evidence supports a hypothesis first proposed 44 years ago by Dan Jansen and Paul Martin. They hypothesized many [ ]
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 largest, growing to 15 feet long and weighing as much as 12,000 pounds. Notiomastodon platensis and Toxodon platensis were massive animals as well. A new [ ]