“Now what on earth are we going to do with that?” mom’s voice blared from the kitchen. We all quickly crowded into the kitchen of our home on the second floor over a tiny grocery store and the downstairs flat; me and my brother Noel, sister Linda Sue, Mom, Dad, our Cocker Spaniel Rusty, and … Read more
4 April 2021 Dear Science Fans, Out in our solar system neighborhood, the Mars Ingenuity helicopter is about to be released from the underside of the Perseverance rover. NASA’s official description of Ingenuity’s role says it will be decommissioned after a month of test flights. Sorry, folks. I do not expect the world’s population will … Read more
Back in about 1975, the Canadian Wildlife Service invited personnel from the International Bird Rescue Research Center up to their regional offices in Winnipeg to instruct agents from across Canada in the cleaning and aftercare of oiled water birds. Alice Berkner and i naturally picked ourselves as the training team. As Alice and volunteers prepared … Read more
James Michael Harris, D.V.M. persuaded the folk at U.C. Berkeley Extension to let the International Bird Rescue Research Center offer a six-week night course in avian anatomy & physiology. This was when the Bird Center was in the warehouse on Eighth Street in Berkeley adjacent to the East Bay Humane Society. I would co-teach with … Read more
Oil spills did not end with the San Francisco spill of January 1971 when i began my 7-year odyssey as Research Director of the International Bird Rescue Research Center, IBRRC. Spills were a constant feature of the shipping business of the Bay. The bilge water of freighters and cruise ships normally collect lubricants and fuel … Read more
David Almandsmith Send this page’s link to your friends and to your representatives and voice your approval of this valuable vision. https://cogito.blog/require-paid-public-service-by-age-24/ Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute expressed multiple reasons why a program of mandatory public service is not only a bad idea, but is also infeasible. His paper is “Mandatory Universal National Service: … Read more
Underlying Concept: Government Support for Candidates Who Show Backing “Every member of Congress is guilty of fundraising on the government’s time and taxpayers’ dime.” “… our ‘representatives’ of the people spend as much as half their time raising money.” “I received a call from a sitting lawmaker, asking for a donation toward the $325,000 dollars he’s obligated … Read more
One morning while walking by myself through the dusty field behind our house on my way to Cuyamaca Elementary School, I notice something move behind one of the houses on Pearl Lane. Those houses also have the big field behind them. I decide to leave the path and walk through weeds to see what caught … Read more
The book, Spooky Action at a Distance, by George Musser started off like many books for the layman concerning quantum theory: stories of who disagreed with whom and why and when. He interprets the statements and objections made by Einstein somewhat differently than i’d heard before but mostly it was the same-old same-old. Toward the … Read more
After Melissa, my Lyft passenger, closed the door, i tapped the “Drop Melissa” button on my iPhone, tapped the far right star, and then tapped the “Tell us what you enjoyed” button. I pasted in my standard, “Delightful!” with the smiley face and tapped “Submit”. It’s mid afternoon, my bladder is feeling a bit full, … Read more