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David's Baja Journal: Driving north to Playa Requeson at Bahia Conception
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What happened during my February 2012 trip, and earlier trips. Driving north to Playa Requeson at Bahia Conception. April 7, 2013. Arriving at Playa Requeson. After dark, I reached Playa Requeson—an incomparable location! Comments are always welcome. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A gripping new historical mystery. It's only 99 cents. In this blog, the last entry appears first, so scroll to the bottom for the start of my trip. Click here. I share the Casita trailer with my partner Liz- but she still...
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David's Baja Journal: Paddling south along the coast from Ligui
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What happened during my February 2012 trip, and earlier trips. Paddling south along the coast from Ligui. Monday, April 1, 2013. His granddaughter, Michelle, loved posing as a model, and she was rather creative with her poses. She held up a dead mouse that their old poodle Kitty had caught, and she explained that it was a "raton" (mouse), but went on to explain that it was a certain type, because it had a tufted tail. So we talked a little about biology, and I told her about the luminescent water. Usuall...
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Hitchhiking Animals: Rat bites--how dangerous are they?
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About how wild animals and humans affect one another- reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car. flaming squirrels. read on. Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Rat bites- how dangerous are they? Recently I was reading Katherine Boo's nonfiction book- Behind the Beautiful Forevers. About life in the slums of India. It's a deeply disturbing account of the lives, hopes, and misfortunes of people living in abject poverty. Here are my findings, in short. Rat bites can lead to "rat bite fever," w...
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Hitchhiking Animals: "Animal Hoarding" may explain Ohio animal massacre
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About how wild animals and humans affect one another- reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car. flaming squirrels. read on. Monday, October 24, 2011. Animal Hoarding" may explain Ohio animal massacre. A recent article from the New York Times. Written before the killing of scores of animals released from an animal farm near Zanesville, Ohio, may explain in part what motivated Terry Thompson to keep so many animals under marginal conditions. Yet the hoarders notice none of this....
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Hitchhiking Animals: Attacks by killer whales on humans
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About how wild animals and humans affect one another- reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car. flaming squirrels. read on. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Attacks by killer whales on humans. Captive killer whale, or orca. Photo by Milan Boers. Killer whales are predators of large mammals- unlike other whales, which feed on tiny krill or small fish. So. do they ever eat humans? Shows a killer whale jumping spectacularly into a group of kayakers. But the event shown is a fake. Photograph...
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Hitchhiking Animals: Whale attacks on ships--the historical record
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About how wild animals and humans affect one another- reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car. flaming squirrels. read on. Thursday, March 3, 2011. Whale attacks on ships- the historical record. Moby Dick attacks pursuing whaleboats. Source. Melville based the ending of. On the story of the. Recently, there have been stories in the news. Even if real attacks, the whales may have felt menaced by ships bearing down on them, or they mistook the ships for rivals. One of the men who ...
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Hitchhiking Animals: Blurring the lines between humans and other species
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About how wild animals and humans affect one another- reported with touch of whimsy. Animals under the hood of your car. flaming squirrels. read on. Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Blurring the lines between humans and other species. The scientists see "evidence for gene flow only from Neanderthals to modern humans." So if you see someone with a heavy brow or receding chin who looks kind of primitive, he may indeed have some Neanderthal genes. Was based on DNA from a single finger bone. Again, there is some evi...
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A Greener Madison: Green Infrastructure
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This is a newsletter of ideas about protecting our lakes- and about the wider issues of creating livable cities. It's focused on local issues in Madison, WI, but sometimes spotlights wider concerns. Is about "working with the grain" of natural systems, rather than against it. The old concept for building cities was "grey infrastructure"- where the "grey" refers to concrete, pavement, and other structures that prevent rain from soaking into the ground. But once everything was paved, new problems emerged.
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A Greener Madison: 2011 Plant Dane! Cost-Share Program: Order Now
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This is a newsletter of ideas about protecting our lakes- and about the wider issues of creating livable cities. It's focused on local issues in Madison, WI, but sometimes spotlights wider concerns. Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Cost-Share Program: Order Now. Cost-share program provides native plants. At reduced prices to help you establish rain gardens. Native plantings and prairie restoration. And food for birds. Plants are $1.80 each. Each species ordered must be ordered in multiples of four. Keeping nut...
