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Since there’s no significant news today, allow me to bore you with my latest duck pictures, as I’m chuffed that all the babies are in their fourth day, having survived two nights without attrition. They look healthy, are eating heartily, and are lively, swimming around between bouts of napping with Miss Duck, their mom. All these photos are from this morning.
Feeding t...
Welcome to The Cruelest Day: Tuesday, July 21, 2026, and National Junk Food Day. Let me put in a word for occasional enjoyment of “bad for you” food. You could live a long time eating just vegetables and cheese, but is that a life? ...
Well, we have another brood of four ducklings in Botany Pond, and this time I’m hopeful they’ll grow up and fledge. Yes, it’s a late brood, but in two months they’ll be ready to fly, and the weather is good in mid-September.
The story: four days ago an undergraduate alerted me to the presence of a nesting hen up against the student union building next to my own buildin...
Welcome to another damn week as we move one day closer to The Big Nap. It’s Monday, July 20, 2026, and Spain is the World Cup champsion. Argentina disgraced itself not only with a lackluster performance, taking almost no shots on goal despite 30 minutes of extra time, but also by trying to fight the victorious Spanish players after the game.
I used to pride myself on being “cultured”—knowing not only science but a decent amount about literature, art, the other humanities, and so on (about classical music, however, I’m an ignoramus). Now, however, I realize I’m a total ignoramus, at least according to the New York Times, which recently published an entire magazine on how to be cultured. Not only doe...