Major Victory for Wild Salmon and Orca in British Columbia
I received the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s monthly newsletter for December in my e-mail on the 29th. Amont the articles contained therein was one entitledOperation Virus Hunter: Sea Shepherd...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: mind, matter and good vibrations
It's Day 2 of the Year 2019 CE, 1st Wednesday of the year January 2, 2019, FWIW"What's matter? Never mind. What's mind? No matter." Old when I was a kid, a change on the "mind-body problem". The...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: January 7 is Distaff Day
January 7 is the 7th day of the year It is also Boomtime, Chaos 7, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.8 by the Mayan Long Count So, 7, "they say", is a happy number. "Why?" you may...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: perception, aging, sentencing, and logs
It's Day 9 of the Year 2019 CE, January 9, 2019, FWIW Ahhh, but not those logs, these logs: logb(x). It turns out that our perceptions of many things in this world, including aging and duration follow...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: January 14 is the Feast of the Ass
January 14 is the 14th day of the year It is also Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 14, 3184 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.2.15 by the Mayan Long Count Nah, not that ass. This was a most holy...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: It's National Religious Freedom Day in the US
It's Day 16 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's January , 2019Religious freedom is something worth celebrating because it is something greatly to be desired, and, boy, do I ever greatly desire it....
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - January 2019 Yard Report
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Insects, weather, meteorites, climate, birds and/or...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: January 21 is National Hugging Day in the US
January 21 is the 21st day of the year It is also Sweetmorn, Chaos 21, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.3.2 by the Mayan Long Count hug (v.) 1560s, hugge "to embrace, clasp with...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: A New Connection between the Gut and Brain
It's Day 23 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's January 23, 2019 The full headline, in the article to be cited below is: A New Connection between the Gut and Brain A surprising way that diet leads...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: January 28 is Data Privacy Day
January 28 is the 28th day of the year It is also Pungenday, Chaos 28, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.3.9 by the Mayan Long Count Jr ubyq gurfr gehguf gb or frys-rivqrag, gung...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: It's Fred Korematsu Day (California, Florida, Hawaii,...
It's Day 30 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's January , 2019 Fred Korematsu was a US citizen who refused to obey the WWII order requiring all persons of Japanese descent in California, Oregon and...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: February 4 is Rosa Parks Day (California and Missouri)
February 4 is the 35th day of the year It is also Setting Orange, Chaos 35, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.3.16 by the Mayan Long Count Since it is the fourth, we'll divert...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: It's Bob Marley's Birthday
For reasons to be noted later, I'm kind of going to bail on this one. One way to do so is to fiddle with elements of the date. It is the sixth. So what about 6? It is the product of two primes, the...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls...
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year It is also Boomtime, Chaos 42, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.4.3 by the Mayan Long Count Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the...
View ArticleIt's Darwin Day Everybody!
Nature - natural selection -Society - unnatural selection -but, in the beginning was ------ PARTHENOGENESIS - x YouTube Video--Image from page 440 of "Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature :...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: It's World Radio Day
It's Day 44 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's February 13, 2019I always check the history for the day before drafting one of these things, because sometimes inspiration lurks therein, or some...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: February 18 is Julia Butterfly Hill's birthday
February 18 is the 49th day of the year Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 49, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.4.10 by the Mayan Long Count It is trivially easy to prove that thee are no...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Our Sense of Time Revisited
It's Day 51 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's February 20, 2019A while back I put up a post concerned with the question of whether or not we ever directly experience the flow of time. (December...
View ArticleMonday Open Thread: February 25 is the Anniversary of E.D. Nixon's Death
February 18 is the 56h day of the Gregorian Calendar year Sweetmorn, Chaos 56, 3185 YOLD (discordian) And let us not forget 13.0.6.4.17 by the Mayan Long CountFirst, a thank you and a hat tip to...
View ArticleWednesday Open Thread: Haile Selassie on Racism and Economics10-04-1963
It's Day 58 of the Year 2019 CE, meaning that it's February 27, 2019 Transcript of Emperor Selassie's actual speech is below (in part), the full speech is here:...
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