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[conuly]

Desert Donkeys Are Introduced To Grass For The First Time And Have No Idea What To Do With Themselves (Video)

Biologist Wants Americans To Taste A Rainbow Of Pomegranates

To Battle Floods, Cities Revive Their Long-Forgotten Alleyways

Behold, a Massive Knit Map of the Cosmos

The Omnivorous Sharks That Eat Grass

Finally, a cure for insomnia?

Sleep may impact college grades more than drinking or drugs

Inching Toward De-Extinction: Can CRISPR Resurrect Passenger Pigeons?

Inside the Daring Life of a Forgotten Female War Photographer

How the Performance of a French Opera About a Neapolitan Revolt Sparked a Belgian Revolution

Resilience and recipes in a Jewish cookbook written by concentration camp prisoners

No, the Subway Doesn't Have to Be Insanely Hot and Gross

China's Jaw-Dropping Family Separation Policy

For Karachi's Water Mafia, Stolen H2O Is A 'Lucrative Business'

Limited English may mean less-gentle death in ICU

The Rio Grande Is Dying. Does Anyone Care?

Trump Launches Aggressive Poverty Disinformation Campaign

The Rise of the Zombie Small Businesses

Category 6? Climate change may cause more hurricanes to rapidly intensify.

Yellowstone hit by global warming, increased visitation: report

Comments

[redsixwing]

Interesting about the potential recreation of the passenger pigeon. Also interesting that they chose the rock dove as their base. I wonder if the altered birds will retain the rock dove's sweet personality and tractability?

That said, if they turned out to be healthy and available to the public, I'd be setting up a dovecote, pronto.

Donkeys. <3 May they discover the joy of the green stuff without overindulging on it.

More kinds of pomegranate? Yes please.

(I am clearly reading All The Fluff today. It's that sort of a day. Thanks for the links.)

[conuly]

SERIOUSLY LOOK AT ALL THOSE POMEGRANTE COLORS.

[gale_storm]

Oh,yes. Darn it that there isn't an easily clickable thumb here.

[greghousesgf]

if all four of that woman's kids are old enough to go to school why does she have to give them baths? Aren't at least some of them old enough to take baths by themselves?

[conuly]

Because they splash and play and forget to wash behind their ears, so she has to sit close by to make sure that they get clean and the house doesn't flood?

I'm not reading that as "She actively has to scrub them down", just that she has to be near and alert enough to pop her head in.

Could you do me a favor, btw? If you're referring to a small detail in a long article, could you start off with something like "In the insomnia article...." so forgetful me can remember right away which article it is? (Sometimes I'm not even forgetful. To be honest, sometimes I skim and just miss things altogether!)

[alchemise]

That video with the desert burros encountering grass was adorable! They acted like visitors to a new planet.

[conuly]

And that first burro planting feet firmly on the one dirt patch.

[mommy]

The chicken/small business article matches what I've seen with farms here in Iowa. The relevant major agribusiness decides everything from what seeds are planted to which irrigation equipment must be used to the precise time of day various things need to occur so that the product meets a consistent industry standard. There's a point where farmers become employees, and I believe we passed that point roughly two decades ago.

[conuly]

It's frustrating, is what it is.