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Yesterday NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed a biologist that did a study of how animals at the Fort Worth zoo reacted during the eclipse: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1246682967/animals-are-stressed-during-eclipses-but-not-for-the-reason-you-think It's a 4 minutes listen, or you ...

Terry Anderson, the journalist who was held hostage in Lebanon from 1985-1991, has died following complications from heart surgery. He was 76.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68871753

That's fascinating (and nauseating). off topic: Side question. I don't like watching a video without some sense of how long it's going to last. I can't figure out how to do that with an embedded Tiktok video, because they don't have a progress bar. Is there a workaround? Same question for Facebook ...

The red dot at the bottom of the total eclipse that some of us saw is explained here (the 2nd video on the page): https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/solar-eclipse-2024/what-was-that-red-spot-at-the-bottom-of-the-sun-during-the-total-solar-eclipse It's called a solar prominence, and it's ...

I was in Lima OH and it was perfect. At around 30% I took our extra eclipse glasses to some contractors across the street and they went from “oh is that happening?” To “Hey look at that!” And of course totality was amazing- we heard yells and applause all around the neighborhood. Oh and we saw the r...

A little late IMO, but Time magazine has an eclipse display where you enter your zip code to see the predicted event:
https://time.com/6963248/total-solar-ec ... -view-2024

When I was in high school - I think a freshman - the math teacher had a giant slide rule hanging over the chalkboard and he did a few lessons on how to use it. Then the next year we got a group discount on multi-function calculators - they ADDED, SUBTRACTED, MULTIPLIED and DIVIDED! They were $60 if ...

qbawl wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:37 pm Perhaps 'amateur gynecologist' is the proper classification.

No joke - I saw this on the wall at my local KFC in 2019 (note next to last on left):

Thanks, everyone, for your condolences. I have spent the last couple days working on a slideshow to show at my dad's visitation on Monday. Not so many pictures of him and his own children (since he usually held the camera), but lots and lots of him with his 7 grandkids and 9 great grands! Here is my...

I lost my dad tonight. He was doing so well in the memory care facility, but on Wednesday he fell and hit his head. My mom and her caregiver were there with him, so it was just a freak accident. He was out for a few minutes, so they took him to the ER. They did a CT scan and determined he had 2 smal...

The woman who does senior caregiving for my mother raises Weimaraners. Want to see what a Weimaraner carrying 16 puppies looks like? Preggo.JPG They lost 2 at birth and 2 shortly after. So here's the 12 remaining: Puppies.JPG I was told the "stripes" are actually folds in the skin. She has...

...I hope your sister has a good outcome. I never heard of it. I have never heard of it either. The doctor told my sister "don't google it" but I did - and apparently Justin Bieber had it last May. The pictures he posted look a lot like what my sister's face looked like. (I just checked m...

I spent Friday afternoon and evening in an emergency room with my sister. She has been sick since MLK day - strep, ear infection, that cough/cold that's going around... you name it. (She's 64 and a special ed teacher, and is exposed to EVERYTHING.) Since she was experiencing vertigo, I drove her to...

Oh, I'm literally sobbing - the bravery of that man!

I almost didn't watch this episode because I didn't want to watch them butchering actual pigs. I have never heard the term before. It sounds a lot like a "catfishing" scheme except for the amount of money involved. I can't imagine investing that kind of money without going through my inves...

Gift link from Washington Post regarding the request:
https://wapo.st/49VmWYu

I have vasovagal syncope. All my life. This sounds quite different. Notably the unbendable knees part. It's a fear/panic reaction to a trigger, and it is not controllable. Just fainting due to lack of blood flow to the head (vagus nerve spasms and inhibits blood flow). It does not last, once you li...

I guess I don't usually have a problem with women getting augmented breasts, but, geez, it seems like you would want them lifelike, not appearing as if you had two grapefruit halves glued to your front. :cantlook: The fabulous and opinionated Tom and Lorenzo call them "baby heads" :lol:

Got a call from the memory care where my dad is (93, been there since Jan 10). He was eating, then his head dipped down - they thought he was praying. That is, until he threw his head back, his eyes rolled back, and he was OUT. They tried to get him to walk but he couldn't (he can normally manage wi...

Lately I've been followed by many accounts with photos of scantily clad women and no profile or tweets, but that like random replies of mine to other accounts. Bots been busy. That happened to me back in November. Back then I posted: Lately I have picked up at least 50 followers who follow thousand...

I watched the first episode of (season 2 of) "Feud". This season is subtitled "Capote Vs. The Swans". It's about a public feud between Truman Capote and a group of socialites in the mid 60s. I wasn't planning to watch until I heard an interview with Molly Ringwald on "Fresh ...

I just noticed that ABC is having a special "Truth and Lies - Fatal Dive to the Titanic" TODAY (Thursday 2/8) at 8-10pm Eastern time. If you miss it, they might show it on Hulu

On the Late Show last night:

I spent Friday afternoon and evening in an emergency room with my sister. She has been sick since MLK day - strep, ear infection, that cough/cold that's going around... you name it. (She's 64 and a special ed teacher, and is exposed to EVERYTHING.) Since she was experiencing vertigo, I drove her to ...

I am going to Lima, OH to stay with my niece's husband's family. For the 2017 eclipse I saw totality in Easley SC where my sister lives. It was amazing! Perfect cloudless skies; I hope for the same in April. I took this picture pre-totality - it's shadows from a small colander. Pretty cool: Colander...