Bird species that produce helpless young have nestlings that often excrete waste in “diapers” (basically mucusy baglike coverings) which prevent the smell from attracting predators to the nest. As there is still nutrition in them (young are ineff. digesters) these diapers are sometimes consumed.
I'd watch that movie. Suggested title: "Time's Up, Jack!"
The newest hit restaurant: rat musqué
The MN Twins had this like 1/3 scale plastic Twins helmet that was filled to the brim with nachos w the liquid cheese, zillions of jalapeños, and crumbly meat straight out of a 7th grade cafeteria. It was glorious.
You guys. A goose is nesting under the Spoon Bridge and Cherry. This is our Romulus and Remus moment. We already became ungovernable. Now we become myth. #Minneapolis.
Inadvertently made the best typo. Instead of "sandhill cranes," I typed "sandchill cranes."
Sandchill crane: *eyes red* Like, bruh, we can do the mating dance later. Let's watch Looney Tunes re-runs.
These are Oakworm
Moths (genus Anisota). This is from the same family (Saturniidae) as the Luna moth. These are pretty amazing. Lucky duck!
I got 25 (I edit nature/natural history books), but like a GOOB, I forgot Dilophosaurus. SHAME. In my defense, I haven't edited a dino book for a few years, so I need a refresher to get up to snuff.
On the kiddo front, I wholeheartedly encourage steering them toward Dinosaur Train. It's real paleontology, and when we brought our dino-obsessed little (he's 13 now, welp) to the MN Science Museum's "Southern Hemisphere dinosaurs exhibit" he toddled over and pointed, "Look Daddy, Cryolophosaurus."
Spinosaurus!
The bar is pretty low these days, isn’t it?!
Also, me at every news headline these days
Adjacent-president fact: Herbert Hoover was a mining exec and eventually become obsessed with De Re Metallica (1556) orig. pubbed in Latin, one of the first books on mining/important in chemistry/the history of science. Hoover and his wife produced the first English translation in 1912.
The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid
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Breaking:
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota county investigates ICE arrest of Hmong American man as a potential case of kidnapping and false imprisonment.
The median housing cost (per FRED) has gone up $196,000(!) over the past 15 years; the cost of college has risen at like 47 percent the rate of inflation this century (per educationdata.org), & the pandemic (and now possibly AI) did a ton of damage. People have long memories, esp. when hurt.
Ja to the wohl. This is great. Props to Wes.
Sweet Martha, 42-9?! Ouch.
The Ocean7 Ranger, sailing under the flag of Liberia, passed beneath the Aerial Lift Bridge on Wednesday shortly before 7:30 a.m.
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The crescent Earth as seen from the moon, which is in the foreground. Taken by Artemis II astronauts aboard Integrity. Credit: NASA
My word. Look at that.
Credit: NASA
No Kings had around 8 million people last weekend A good half of the signs at ours were against the war.
Quality
This is gutter racism. Somalis are wonderful folks and make Minnesota a better place.
So glad Artemis II is on her way!
As always, it's more than *just* one thing: Housing, childcare, education, and so on. I'm not saying that the economic metrics are necessarily wrong, but they certainly don't capture the lived experiences of folks. Politicians obviously should heed that rather than dismissing it as "hysteria."
I'm only talking about U.S. market, as I don't know much at all about the Canadian side of things. But housing here is certainly not stuck in a 2008 mindset. Your chart leaves off at 2020. The median selling price is now about 90-100k higher than in 2020.
And I think when people are asked about inflation, they aren't thinking "Oh, it was 2.4 percent annually" They think of it personally, pocketbook wise. If people are hurting (or perceive they are), it's hard to blame them.
I don't think this an information ecosystem problem. In all of those years, it's been more difficult to buy a house, afford college, pay for groceries/healthcare/daycare (and now fuel). The economy may be "good" by the numbers, but I think the more important question is, "Who is really good *for*?"
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