Get over yourselves. It's all fields....

I was just sent a comment on FB about a notable natural area in our province: “I hope they keep it as is. We need all the natural ecosystems we can create.” 😳

RIP Robert Trivers - the Einstein of evolutionary biology and one the greatest thinkers of our age. Among other things, Trivers came up with parental investment theory, reciprocal altruism theory, and parent-offspring conflict theory.

...reciting some of the findings from President Johnson's US National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Is this found in motivations for other states regarding their nationhood? 2/2

“The ‘frontier experience’ of suppressing Native Americans and Mexicans had created a tradition of vigilante justice and nurtured a sense of popular sovereignty, the principle that the consent of the people is paramount.” — Nick Bryant... 1/2

A brilliant and complex individual (I knew him at Harvard), Trivers made great theoretical advances in evolutionary biology, but was also prone to self sabotage.

Here is the law. It is the 1949 amendment of the National Security Act of 1947. Words in brackets are provisions of the 1947 law that the 1949 amendment superseded. Words in bold type are from the amendment. This law is current law.

Iran’s Foreign Minister @araghchi in an interview with the MS NOW network: "I do not know what Witkoff and Kushner conveyed to their boss. What I do know is that on February 26, when we met in Geneva, we were able to make good progress. The Foreign Minister of Oman read the

USHankland..

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. His name is the Italicised form of the Germanic name Heimereik, meaning ruler of the homestead. Other etymological descendants of the name include Emerick, Heinrich, and Henry, of which Hank is a nickname. America can also

“The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.” — Carson McCullers Agree or disagree? Schopenhauer would disagree.

We're certainly not alone here.

My date of birth.

And this is the largest freshwater island in the world:

I'm pretty sick of this

🚨In 1700s, French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc took a needle, a wooden floor, and a question that sounds almost childishly simple. If you drop a needle randomly onto a surface ruled with parallel lines, and the needle's length equals the distance between those lines,

Rule: Everyone else's ideas are bad. Your only job is to find a descriptive word that explains why or how they're bad. Alternate: If someone actually has a good idea, it's only because it's the same idea you've had.

Or else they can have everyone else hate them by just attacking and taking their stuff.

You would think that I would know by the Ides of March how to dress well for cycling in the cold. It was only -2° today when I set off, but the wind was gusting up to 52 km/h and I was still a bit overdressed.

Day 17 (final): Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis Eastern Gartersnake (Moi)

Just because pedestrians have a walk signal doesn't mean they're safe.