There are days for sunny morning walks in the garden, where dew-bejeweled roses release their fragrance on the light breeze.
These are not those days. These are days of harsh realities demanding sharp answers. This is now … time for thorns.
Don’t kiss this frog…
…unless you want to die. Apparently the blue poison dart frog is on the decline in its native forests on Costa Rica and Brazil, so scientists at Walford and North Shropshire College have successfully bred one of the tiny toxic critters so they can guarantee replacements. Beautiful, but deadly…
Sailing stones…
Here is yet another theory about how the stones move in Death Valley. I have no idea whether it is correct , but it’s certainly more plausible than most.
Itching origins…
You may know what makes you itch, but I doubt you know how you itch.
Not newsworthy…
A Connecticut legislative district goes GOP for the first time in four decades, and the AP doesn’t think it’s news. That’s not really surprising, since the winner blasted the state’s new, extremely restrictive gun laws, and that interferes with the MSM meme that anti-gun control candidates can’t win. The gun control backlash is so severe that even the Democratic opponent said he wouldn’t have voted for those laws.
Space surprise…
A man has had a piece of the Mir space station sitting in his yard for years.
Solar tornado season…
I haven’t really thought much about this space phenomenon since there is little I can do about it, but the pictures are weirdly beautiful.
Justice Clarence Thomas…
The Supreme Court recently decided unanimously that human genes can not be patented.Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the ruling, and it is a model of clarity and precision, laid out logically and with a certain elegance few jurists display.
