Louis Herron is a friend who recently was featured in an article about his AirBnB operation near Valle and his hiking guide company. Check it out here. You done good Louis!
Sunday, September 18, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
The Border Wall - A Post Mortem
No matter your politics, this is senseless. It will not work for its intent. But it will work to preclude the free flow of wildlife. The New Yorker magazine has produced this 13 minute documentary with great aerial footage of our waste and folly. All to satisfy the ego of one ill man.
See it here.
Monday, March 28, 2022
How Many Humans Have Ever Lived Through Time
It's a question I have thought of repeatedly - How many humans have ever lived? This graphic has some real interesting facts and figures on it.
1) How to define "human" - the authors used the figure of 190,000 years, the generally accepted age for Homo sapiens.
2) The human population will hit 8 billion in 2022.
3) This represents about 7% of all people who have ever lived.
4) Including those who are alive today, there have been about 117 billion of us in 190,000 years.
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Giant Ichthyosaur Uncovered in England
Check out this giangantic fossil Ichthyosaur that was recently uncovered in England. I saw this in a NY Time article, which may be read here. (There may be a paywall if you are not a subscriber - sorry). The specimen comes from Jurassic-age rocks, about 180 million years old. It was only discovered as part of landscaping project at the Rutland Water Nature Preserve in the East Midlands. The lagoon had been partially drained when a naturalist saw vertebrae poking out of the lagoon mud. The fossil has now been excavated and the lagoon refilled. If you are able to access the NY Times article, there is a nice video of the specimen by drone, which gives a spectacular view of its immense size within the entire site.
An example of one species of Ichthyosaur recovered from Triassic rocks in Nevada.
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