crates | June 29, 2008
I heard a person arguing that the Europeans had taught the North American Native Americans this practice, and although I had heard both sides to the question, I thought that I would look the question up just to satisfy my own curiosity. I’m sure you’ve heard it before: the North American indigenous people were taught [...]
crates | June 27, 2008
DNA studies seem to suggest that Neandertals and modern humans are cousins, and that Neandertals are not direct ancestors to modern Homo sapiens. But were they human in the sense that they shared common characteristics with us that we consider typically human? I have summarized some observations here from The Neandertal Enigma written by James [...]
crates | June 26, 2008
Why do fish, dolphins, whales, penguins, seals and other aquatic creatures have a smooth streamlined shape, with fins or some similar means of ensuring stability, and some sort of propulsive structure such as tails? Also, looking into the fossil record, one can find the various aquatic reptiles such as the Ichthyosaur which looks amazingly like [...]
crates | June 23, 2008
During my study of my family’s genealogy, I became interested in surnames. Perhaps it is because I have such a common surname, but when I encountered some of the more unusual surnames in my family history, they tended to attract my notice. The history of surnames is interesting also. In most parts of the world people [...]
crates | June 17, 2008
“…And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Can you imagine a world that contained no Siberian Tigers? No cheetahs? No Blue Whales? No elephants? What [...]
crates | June 10, 2008
No…no, I’m really not picking on Fife, Washington despite my previous unflattering comments about this town in the past (see Adventures at the KFC in the Benighted Berg, Fife, WA on May 10, 2008 and Fife Wa–The City that Sold its Soul to the Devil, Dec. 27, 2006), but I simply could not refrain from [...]
crates | June 3, 2008
My daughter has been married, and I am back from Hawaii. The ceremony was held by the sea beside a rocky beach. It was very informal with the groom wearing shorts and flip flops, but since I got a nice deal on a tuxedo ($.99 at the thrift store), and since I had promised my [...]
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