Thanks very much for posting these. Really beautiful. 

This. Want to help the planet? Quit having kids. As for city versus rural....rural is where food is grown. Try feeding a city with just vertical aquaculture or algae extracts or something. And in return, cities build out and expand, taking over land that probably used to produce food. Farming is an extremely…

Proofreading has been a goner for a long time. If I read "predominately", "nucular", or see "principle" and "principal" incorrectly substituted for each other again,  I will need to be carried out screaming and straitjacketed.

If you have raccoons where you live, you probably also have porcupines. Even without the involvement of rabies, bad news for any animal who gets quilled. A porcupine got into our fenced yard and my dog tried to bite it; the vet saved her, but we had to block all tiny gaps at ground level. Of course porcupines can…

At age 80 he likely had all that going on anyway.

The blood kept for medical use needs frequent replacement; it doesn't keep indefinitely. 

Why, however would those poor producers MAKE MONEY by lessening their slice of the power pie? You want them to apply for Government Subsidies because they aren’t able to pay their shareholders enough? Much of the California grid was built in the late 40s to early 60s. (Newer areas are hooked into the older ones.) Littl…

Action spots like joints might wear out, but generally titanium is a good bet for uses like skull plates. My husband just had a heart bypass, and a titanium plate was wired over the sternum to help stabilize that site. (It will remain in place permanently.) The doc said the chunk of artery they used for the bypass…

Monorails. Seriously,  how could elevated monorail systems be more expensive than fixing an 1800's design?

I worked for years all over the San Bernardino Mountains. AT&T was absolutely not available in every valley, but was head and shoulders above the other carriers there. Now that I don’t live in SoCal anymore, I just wish AT&T had some email address for complaints, so I could tell them that our rural digs never have…

Srsly: one way to dispose of dead rats, bats or birds is A. Use some disposable wooden stick to move it away to a flat area, away from piles of dusty leaf debris or fuzz. Airborne particles might transport bacteria. Then dispose of that stick. If you use a shovel, wash it off. B. Get a plastic bag larger than the…

If this drug usage for weight loss purposes does remain approved for the general public, I hope the results observed in the users will add to further studies about the way this works inside the body’s pathways - and give medical science better understanding and tools for weight control. Right now there's just an…

I used to have a male domestic cat who would make small growly sounds if it caught a mouse and chewed at leisure. If he was rushed, like one of our dogs realized that a cat was eating, then he would hide away with his prize and chomp quietly. I always believed that noisy eating made his meal more tasty.

Split the 3 days off. Have Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday off, or something. If many companies encourage this, it ought to minimize inconvenience for everyone. 

Maybe mice have better blood cleansing capabilities? More efficient kidneys and livers, perhaps? And relative lifespans might also play a part. 

Because they can. Movie: District 9.

These people must not have a cat who sleeps on their ribs, legs or head.

Dry heat can dehydrate you more quickly, your blood thickens, your circulation slows and you die. Humid heat prevents evaporation of sweat from skin, your blood can’t get cooler and cool your brain and internal organs, you cook in your own juices and die. Either can make you equally dead in short order. Sometimes it’s…

Historical note from a sixtysomething. The term geothermal used to be only applied to deep well systems with the goal of getting deep enough to tap into the heat rising from the Earth’s mantle. Drilling was envisioned as a way to reach a clean, unlimited heat source, which could result in massive amounts of energy.…

A Google search does not constitute documented evidence. And one goal of the jury process is to try to bring in 12 peers of the defendant who have as little advance special knowledge of the issues as possible  -  none should be in possession of "facts" that the other jurors don't have. Especially when the internet is,…