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I’ve been practicing playing on a glockenspiel for 15 months almost every day for about 30 minutes. My wife complains that it gives her a headache, so I have to take it to a different room on the other side of the house. Usually, I take it to our bedroom, but 1 day the cat was napping in there, and I didn’t want to disturb him. I took the glockenspiel outside. The bells sound...

There have been 50 Ice Ages over the past 2.6 million years, and scientists refer to these Ice Ages as Glacials. Ice Ages alternate with warm climate phases known as Interglacials, like the one present day earth is experiencing, Scientists recently analyzed how intense each Ice Age was compared to others. They used data from 16 sediment cores taken from ocean bottoms in addit...

There is a website called Deviant Art that gives users 10 prompts a week to create any kind of image they can describe. (www.deviantart.com). Each prompt produces 3 different images from the description. The first images I created were kinky sex scenarios that I’m not going to share here. It ...

Scientists recently found the residue of Chilean palm fruit (Jubaea chilensis) on gomphothere (Notiomastodon platensis) teeth. This species was closely related to mastodons, and I referred to it as a mastodon in last week’s blog entry. This evidence supports a hypothesis first proposed 44 years ago by Dan Jansen and Paul Martin. They hypothesized many specie...

3 megaherbivores roamed South American tropical forests during the late Pleistocene. A megaherbivore is an animal that weighs in the tons. Eremotherium, an extinct species of ground sloth, was the largest, growing to 15 feet long and weighing as much as 12,000 pounds. Notiomastodon platensis and Toxodon platensis were massive animals as well. A new study of ...