It is sad that on any topic concerning South America, I am suspicious of anything that the US says.

John Bolton. I only want to hear from this guy if he’s on the witness stand. I can’t believe he still gets interviews.

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Bravo!

The expert quoted has had quite a life:

After earning a BA in English literature from UCLA, Austad left academia for a number of years during which among other things, he drove a taxi cab in New York City, worked as a newspaper reporter, and trained lions for television and movies.

He sounds pretty cool.

I admit I looked him up only because his view challenged what I’ve been seeing in reporting on studies done in this area. I’ve seen what seems like a trend in studying and comparing changes in lifespan and healthspan in male and female subjects (in both human and mouse). I suspect I am suffering from some recency bias, but it really does seem to me like studies in this area are better at teasing out sex differences than in non-longevity lines of research.

Anyway, thought I’d mention the expert’s colorful past

Videos shared by researchers show how the elephants respond to call recordings addressed to them. In one, an elephant named Margaret appears to almost immediately perk up to a rumble recording addressed to her.

It’s amazing to me that elephants use, among I would assume others, the name Margaret.

No kidding! Consequently, I have decided to redouble my efforts to avoid quicksand

Post of info on Tiblur by a now 3 hour old lemmy account

Ah, yes, oh so reliable

Thank you! I"ve added their RSS feed to my news feed reader

Edit: Semafor RSS for anyone else who might be interested

The remains were discovered during an archaeological survey prior to the construction of new residential buildings in the city.

Did we learn nothing from Poltergeist?

Or teenage boys

Shaft

Name has its own theme song

Hydro is easy, except when it isn’t

No, no. The Timex Sinclair was my first. The sealed keyboard design was perfect for the occasional milk spills

Well, yeah, and boy did the other kids let me know it

The instructions were probably more helpful for someone who knew what these tubes were. I was probably about 6 at this point, hadn"t been actively involved in much TV repair by this time, and I guess I somehow didn’t pick up enough clues from the context of the instructions to put it all together before just leaping into playing with the dials and switches. You know, like a kid

I remember one of these being at the grocery store as a kid. I didn’t know at the time what it was for, but it had knobs and switches to play with.

*too

I’ll still prefer trees

God, yes. Trees provide shade, transpirative cooling, homes for animals (birds, mammals, insects), and a particular natural beauty that tanks of algae do not.

1890s: the yellow kid