by Matthew Cobb
Hili is being a good scientist:
Hili: According to my research what I was looking for is not here.A: And what now?Hili: Further research is needed.
Hili: Jak wynika z moich badań, prawdopodobnie nie ma tu tego, czego szukam.
Ja: I co teraz?
Hili: Muszę przeprowadzić dalsze badania.
34 ducks for lunch. Lots of fussing and shoving and jockeying for position was going on at lunch. Most of the ducks hop up to the grass for chow, and some stay back in the middle of the pond and don’t come near me. I’m making a wild guess that the majority have been here before. Those could be our ducklings all grown up? Maybe?
Greetings and good morning it’s Monday morning rush hour #farmrushhour #rushhour #mondaymorning @caro_painter pic.twitter.com/zgUVYommJJ
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) November 11, 2019
Smudge the cat is very interested in the roses that are on the barn door, and then does some climbing:
It’s Monday and time for Smudge to smell the roses #smudgethekitten #smellingroses #farmcat #cutecat @caro_painter pic.twitter.com/uns4LNo82V
— caenhillcc (@caenhillcc) November 11, 2019
On an alpaca farm, the rush hour is more sedate:
Monday morning rush hour…@BarnacreAlpacas style! pic.twitter.com/Xu3x8DMoZI
— Barnacre Alpacas (@BarnacreAlpacas) November 11, 2019
Male copperhead snakes having a standoff:
Can you tell me what these are and what they are doing? pic.twitter.com/DQkHwzkdhO
— tilly’s mama (@tillysmama1) November 2, 2019
A fabulous Monday murmuration:
Magic Monday morning watching migratory birds murmurate in delta bc Canada 28 October 2019 #sunrise #murmuration #migratorybirds #ducks #vancouverbirds #wildlife #nature #wildvancouver #natgeo #cangeo #exploredelta #explorebc #hellobc #ilovebc #canada #vancity #pnw pic.twitter.com/Zc9Kj2Y7Qv
— Pacificnorthwestkate (@pnwkate) October 28, 2019
On this day:
#OnThisDay in 1953, the polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. pic.twitter.com/YYGc8h6v7O
— The Royal Society (@royalsociety) November 11, 2019
101 years ago today, the guns fell silent in World War 1. In the UK and the Commonwealth, the day is marked by wreaths of poppies, which grew ‘in Flanders fields’ despite the destruction, as the Canadian poet John McCrae put it in 1915. In Australia, something rather touching has happened.
A crafty pigeon has been helping itself to poppies placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Australian War Memorial and has built a nest in an alcove beneath a stained glass window. How touching this Remembrance weekend. #RemembranceDay pic.twitter.com/HL1DTLQMjd
— Mat McLachlan (@MatMcLachlan) November 10, 2019
Love the Remembrance pigeon!
Jerry will be interested in this perhaps –
The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation
“There is substantial variation in psychological attributes across cultures. Schulz et al. examined whether the spread of Catholicism in Europe generated much of this variation (see the Perspective by Gelfand). In particular, they focus on how the Church broke down extended kin-based institutions and encouraged a nuclear family structure. To do this, the authors developed measures of historical Church exposure and kin-based institutions across populations. These measures accounted for individual differences in 20 psychological outcomes collected in prior studies.”
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6466/eaau5141
Lovely Hili Dialogue (including other offerings)
I finally saw They Shall Not Grow Old. Astonishing. Makes you think.
A very moving film. I saw it with my youngest grandson, 18.
Re Marsh Farm ,what is the name of the black cat i saw being let out a few days ago .
Also ,those little birds you can see around the 0.29 point ,how do they avoid becoming lunch for the two cats?
Forgotten the name of the black cat I’m afraid! Chris – who runs the site and does the commentary – says that the cats are just used to living with the birds, including the chicks, and don’t try to eat them…
A more cynical answer would be provided by one of Jerry’s favourite jokes:
A group of interfaith religious leaders were getting a tour around the Jerusalem Zoo by its administrator, Shmuel Shapira. Shmuel showed them one cage where a lion was lying together with a young lamb.
The head of the delegation was amazed. “For 2000 years, we’ve prayed for signs of the messianic era and the prophesy that the lion will lie down next to the lamb. How did you do it?”
“It was quite easy,” Shmuel replied, “All it needs is a new lamb a day!”
– MC
Back in the summer (what summer ) I heard a chicken outside my shed ,went out and my three cats were transfixed by it ,but they were all keeping a safe distance from it.
They have bought a rabbit or two home to me in the past .
Maybe you mean the tuxedo cat who is named Wilson.
This – what can I say… wtf???
https://twitter.com/i/status/1193156433988206593
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Love the alpacas. Friends had some a while back, which they said were a bit of a tax shelter doubling as exotic pets.
“Economists suspect that hyping may have played a role in the alpaca investment bubble last decade. In 2005, the average male sold at auction fetched over $70,000, implying significant savings for purchasers who used the tax exemption intended to stimulate business investment. The creatures, smaller cousins of the llama, were being pitched to buyers as an about-to-boom industry, promising the market for alpaca fleece was on the cusp of taking off…And like all bubbles built on speculation, it eventually burst”.
How fitting that the pigeon made a nest out of Remembrance poppies since pigeons flew missions for the Allies in WWI and several were decorated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon#World_War_I.
I gather that large, blind, barely ambulatory violin-shaped red thing with a black spot in the middle is supposed to represent a poppy.
Wot about the pigeons who flew for the fuhrer ?And i didn’t know this was based on fact .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastardly_and_Muttley_in_Their_Flying_Machines