Well, yes, anything can survive drinking seawater. I imagine that most humans who have visited the ocean have done so. But I guess cats can tolerate it better?
Is that related to why cats are so prone to urinary-tract issues?
Sorry, to be more clear, I meant drinking seawater to prevent dehydration and not just getting a random splash in your mouth at the beach.
As mentioned, cats are unique in this ability among land mammals.
No idea about the urinary tract infections but I wouldn’t be surprised.
The song Mr. Bojangles was released as a single by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band in September of 1970, and it rose as high as #9 on the Billboard Top 100.
Today I learned two other facts about that song:
It was also recorded by Sammy Davis, Jr., and it became one of his signature performances; he performed it a White House concert in 1973.
The song was written by Jerry Jeff Walker. He released it as a single in 1968, and it peaked at #77 on the Billboard chart.
Arkansas is bounded by six states. And each one of them has at least a slim portion south of Arkansas.
South of the northern border of AR, not of all of AR.
The key is that you can travel due south into each of those states from some part of Arkansas.
That may be unusual for a U.S. state, but when there is a natural curved border of nontrivial length, it is expected that you can cross it at any gradient in some point.
There’s an episode of Alan Partridge where someone asks him what his favourite Beatles album was and he said this one. So the joke worked on two levels, the fact that music snobs would judge him for choosing a ‘best of’ album, and real music snobs would know that it’s not even a Beatles album anyway.
Two diamonds have been found with separate, freely moving, diamonds within them. They are called double diamonds.
The first one was found in Russia in 2019 and called the “matryoshka diamond” (like the nesting dolls). In 2021 a second one was found in Australia.
Here is a scholarly article about how the first was formed. It has a video showing how the internal diamond moves around.
In summary, this diamond crystal was initially a solid diamond without the cavity when it formed in the earth’s mantle. Due to chemical heterogeneity in trace element chemistry or sub-micro inclusions/structure (such as those fibrous diamonds), the middle part of the diamond crystal (now represented by the void) was selectively dissolved during interactions with special type(s) of melt/fluid after its crystallization. About 0.11 carats of diamond dissolved through the two small open channels that created the pathway for the internal cavity. The host diamond and the small internal diamond crystals were inactive or less active to the melt/fluid and consequently survived. Fluid with radioactive elements responsible for the green bodycolor and formation of radiation stains would have been the last step in decorating this crystal. Special chemistries and interactions with multiple types of melt/fluid subsequent to its initial crystallization led to the formation of this unique diamond in Siberia.
Did they call it the Kangaroo Diamond?
or Kanga and Roo?
You can’t call it the Kangaroo Diamond without the little one being Joey.
My first ‘dirty’ book! For some reason I was digging around in my oldest brother’s underwear drawer where he had hidden it (no idea where he got it from). Read it several times until it eventually disappeared (either Mom found it or he passed it in a sort of small-town porn chain).
If memory serves (and I’m not going to look it up), L.U.S.T. was the League of Underground Spies and Terrorists, which even as an early teen I could tell was a stupid name.
For sure. Spies can be good guys. Terrorists? Did the word mean something different in the 1960s? Don’t think so.
Those who are spy-curious can go to Fox’s website and read all the L.U.S.T. novels for free, although they can’t be downloaded. If you want a download, click on the Ebooks tab, which has EPUB versions of dozens of his novels, including some Cherry Delights.
Wow, love the covers on the earlier books (artwork) more than the photo ones. I must be some kind of pervert.
Some of the scans are out of order, so pay attention to the page numbers. Don’t ask me how I know.
Rodney Alcala (The Dating Game Killer) and Richard Cottingham (The Torso Murderer) worked in the same small Blue Cross office at the same time. There’s no evidence that they knew about each other. It’s just a fluke. Imagine being the dude who sat in between those two when they got caught!
The main driver of evolution of human intelligence and eyesight was venomous snakes. We have snake venom to thank for our evolved brains (Snake Detection Theory).*
“The brave Lasiochalcidia wasps of Europe and Africa throw themselves into the nightmarish jaws of an ant lion, pry them apart, and insert their eggs into its throat.”**
*Venomous: How Earth’s Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox, p. 34–36.
**ibid., p. 164
I like to doubt the snake thingy …
Peoples that live far north or far south have never seen snakes (for many 100s of generations) … so their eye-sight should be very different (if the argument holds water) …
Also lots of isolated islanders with no snakes on their island ever (e.g. Easter Island)
I’m pretty sure that the main driver of evolution of human intelligence was human intelligence. We need to prevent other humans from outsmarting us and ripping us off, preferably while also outsmarting them.
Isn’t that a rather tautological statement? Intelligence breeds intelligence? So where did it initially come from?