If you have good photos or videos with a wildlive/biology theme, send them in. Today we have a short but lovely video from ...

Welcome to Sunday, October 18, 2026, sabbath for goyische cats, and National Exascale Day, which celebrates this: Founded by CRAY, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, National Exascale Day takes ...

Since I had my first disastrous cataract operation on Sept. 22 (not the doctor’s fault!), I haven’t been able to read a book on paper.  I can read the computer if I close my right eye ...

Here I contend that although there is no “genocide” being committed by Israel against Gaza or Palestinians as a whole, Russia is committing genocide of the Ukrainians. That the former ...

As I’ve mentioned, posting will be light for a week or so as I have to deal with eye issues. Today I go to the retinologist and have little time to post, but as I was perusing my list of favorite ...

Welcome to Friday, October 16, 2026 and it’s Global Cat Day! Here is a celebratory drawing, courtesy of ChatGPT, and below it ...

All the ducks have gone, and the sky is gray. (People keep asking me, “Where do you think the ducks are?” My answer is, “My best guess is that they’ve gone south for the winter.”) But the squirrels ...

We have three items today. The first, from AnimalsAroundTheGlobe, describes 19 cat breeds that, so the author claims, bond so much with their staff that they can’t subequently find new staff. Click to ...

Starting with the recent accusations of gang rape against 7 denizens of a fraternity at Cornell University, Bill Maher’s latest real-time episode takes out after the Greek houses, including sororities ...

If you have any kind of public presence, eventually you attract—like remoras to a shark—people who want money or publicity, though they l\often disguise their motives as being laudable or charitable.

Question: What pop song was written in part by a university professor? The answer is the song in this post: “Copperline,” written by James Taylor and Reynolds Price, formerly James B. Duke Professor ...