Iceland - August 2024

#ScienceRules

Since that milquetoast of a House Majority Leader doesn't want the Gaetz report released, I encourage people to call Democrats on the House Ethics Committee. Be polite, say you are invoking FOIA, and request the report.

Ranking Member Susan Wild (PA) - (202) 225-6411
Mark DeSaulnier (CA) - (202) 225-2095
Veronica Escobar (TX) - (202) 225-4831
Glenn Ivey (MD) - (202) 225-8699
Deborah Ross (NC) - (202) 225-3032

even snails organize to gain freedom.

Farmed snails unhappy with their lot in life have found ways to break free.

In the mid-nineteenth century, Sir George Head described the single-minded survival instinct of snails for sale at a street market in Rome: "The proprietor," Sir George commented,

"is obliged to exert his utmost vigilance and dexterity in order to restrain their incessant efforts to crawl over the edge of the basket and escape."

A U.S. Department🔽

#Achievements

This is perhaps the coolest thing I've seen in a while.

This took at a year to capture the neutrinos.

When The Music's Over - Doors https://youtu.be/pSZ-vSrFhZE?si=uAuw88yeb6Dm_09K

"What have they done to the earth, what have they done to our fair sister

@stuckinaredstate this is going way too far. At this age was riding my bike all over South Vancouver, going over the bridge to the main airport to watch the planes take off, at a much earlier age I was walking by myself over to my grandfather's house 4 blocks away and so on.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mom-arrested-kid-walk-alone-1.7382340

A Georgia woman was arrested late last month after her 10-year-old walked to their rural town alone, sparking a debate about whether childhood safety fears have gone too far.

I love Anne Frank. I first read of her in High School and went on to dig up more information on her and her family before and after the war.

A pleasant evening. Grandkids.

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Just in case anybody here is still on the bird site, it's time to bail - but fast!