UC#2 was recently exploring the southern California coast with friends looking for Viking and Sumerian relics. No relics were found, but they came across some California black sea hares during low tide. A Little Background…. About The sea hare is a marine snail, found in shallow water and occasionally in rockpools on the low shore. […]
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Time Passes Slowly
While Spousal Unit and I were on a Three Initial Company (TIC) business trip to Taiwan, we took an enchanting trip across the country’s interior that included Taroko Gorge, Sun Moon Lake, and the hillside fruit orchards amidst the central mountains. After all those years, I remember the song that became fixed in my mind […]
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Kinmen, Taiwan
Spousal Unit and I had an opportunity to spend a few months in Taiwan in the late ’80 while working for a large Three Initial Company. Taiwan is a country of great natural beauty, intense industry, an strong work ethic, and friendly people with good humor. They have a complicated and diverse opinion of their […]
Ole Rømer first demonstrated in 1676 that light does not travel instantaneously by studying the apparent motion of Jupiter’s moon Io. The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 meters per second. It is exact because, by a 1983 international agreement, a meter […]
In Greek mythology, Epimetheus (/ɛpɪˈmiːθiəs/; Greek: Ἐπιμηθεύς, lit. “afterthought“) was the brother of Prometheus (traditionally interpreted as “foresight”, literally “fore-thinker”), a pair of Titans who “acted as representatives of mankind”. They were the sons of Iapetus, who in other contexts was the father of Atlas. While Prometheus is characterized as ingenious and clever, Epimetheus is […]
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen; née Albrecht; born 8 October 1958) is a German physician and politician serving as the 13th president of the European Commission since 2019. She served in the German federal government between 2005 and 2019, holding successive positions in Angela Merkel’s cabinet, most recently as federal minister of defence. Von der […]
Honoring Karyn Today’s post honors Karyn, daughter of an Elder. Karyn wanted to become a professional singer, and wanted to share her financial success with the homeless. She is age 18 here, and had just done a street mission project in Calgary with an organization called the Mustard Seed, that was originated in Edmonton by […]
“Wars don’t start with explosions. They start with silence.” 20 Days in Mariupol 20 Days in Mariupol 20 Days in Mariupol is a documentary film by the AP and Frontline. A very brave film crew hears rumors of war, and heads over to Mariupol. “We pulled into Mariupol at 3:30 a.m. The war started an […]
#1 Lodoicea Q: Where might we find the Coco De Mer? A: The Seychelles. #2: Mora Oleifera The “Sweet Potato of the Skies” (we just made that up). Species abstract Mora oleifera is a coastal tree of limited distribution in Panama and Colombia. An example specific area of occurrence is the Gulf of Panama mangroves […]
Yesterday’s BLOTT, about the childhood of Joan of Arc and the prominence of the Fairy Tree in her childhood, led the WLBOTT historical archives team to wonder: Just how bad-ass were fairies during the middle ages? These were not Tinker Bells[1], by any means. They could be pretty mischievous and sometimes wicked. Probably one of […]