First, don’t forget to charge your cat today if its energy is low. On this day in 1789, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States, and, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook. On this day in 1902, Charles Lindbergh was born and, in 1913, Rosa Parks. Betty Friedan was born on February 4, 1921. Death came on this day to Neal Cassady (one of my role models) in 1968; he was not only Jack Kerouac’s BFF, but driver of the bus that ferried Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters around the U.S. Liberace died on this day in 1987, and Betty Friedan in 2006—she was born and died on the same day of the year. Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Hili has a First World Problem:
Hili: There are two options.
A: What options are those?
Hili: I can either go to sleep or eat something.
Hili: Są dwie możliwości.
Ja: Jakie?
Hili: Albo się prześpię, albo pójdę coś zjeść.
Oh, and Ceiling Cat was spotted in New Zealand yesterday. I think this is a sign that He wants me to go there and spread The Good News:
Finally, here’s a Furbonacci spiral:
h/t: Samuel, Amy
Love the furbonacci cat!
What a great cat name!! L
Considering that the original formulation of the Fibbonacci series was in the “rabbits breeding on an island” problem … obviously they’ll have impressed themselves in the structure of a cat.
It says something that having found Fibb series, the Golden Ratio etc fascinating since I was in my teens, I still hadn’t heard of either “Fibbonacci heaps” or the “bee ancestry code”. And as to techniques for recognising a Fibbonacci-a-like sequence … I guess I have a page to read.
Had we but world enough and time… !
That’s Shakespeare quote-mining someone else?
A little known solution to The Feline Resting problem.
Furbonacci. What a cat!
Did you see Ed Yong on Kalligrammatids?
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/04/butterflies-forty-million-years-before-butterflies/
And the seagrass genome?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature16548.html
Or the swedish solution to lost socks? (The Xenoturbella, first discovered in Swedish waters, new species collection and sequencing.)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35482467 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoturbella
Those kalligrammatid eye spots looks like (fossil) dinosaur eyes…
“Flowering plants, which butterflies drink from, hadn’t colonised the land during the kalligrammatid era, so these early insects probably fed from ancient plants like conifers and cycads (which are still around) and bennettitaleans (which are not).”
Reminds me of yesterday’s paper on how insect diversity has been the same since they became successful. If I understood it correctly, it’s paywalled and the press release was partly undecipherable.
“A lot of modern insect groups have close ecological and evolutionary relationships with flowering plants, and the evolution of flowering plants is thought to have spurred rapid diversification of insects. But the new analysis found that the evolution of flowering plants did not make a big difference in insect diversity overall. Presumably, there were many insects that had coevolved with the plants that were dominant before flowering plants came on the scene, and those insect groups would have declined along with the plants they depended on.”
http://news.ucsc.edu/2016/02/insect-diversity.html ; http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/283/1824/20152476
CC: Did someone say, “Surf and Turf”?
The Golden Ration must prove their Divinity.
meant to say Ratio.lol
Funniest comment:
“Illumeowti confirmed.”
Cats, cats everywhere.
We’d love to see you in New Zealand Jerry, but it seems like you’re already booked to go other places in the world for the rest of our summer and autumn.
We’ll still be here next year though, and by then you might be wanting to move here permanently given the possibility of a Trump or Cruz presidency. We’re not perfect, but our grass is greener. Example: there’s a call for an enquiry (that will probably go ahead) about the number of criminals with guns these days after a police officer was shot at (but not hit) during a car chase yesterday. That makes about FOUR TIMES this year already, every one of which led the national news that night.
I am thinking about a trip during your summer next year: perhaps early February.
Very cool indeed! I’ll have to make sure to keep paying the wifi bill. 🙂
If you get that far, how about the Land of Oz as well
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Excellent. I’m sure you’ll find plenty of loyal NZ readers happy to show you around – me included.
I’m counting on it!
Reminder to British readers:-
Tonight, 8pm, BBC2, “Cats v Dogs: Which Is Best?”
Sigh “…Which Is Better?”
CC in NZ. I think that would frighten Sauron.
A golden cat illustrating the Golden Mean.