So it looks like tonight may have been my 100th unit of blood donated. (I’ve given a few different places as I moved around, so the count is in my head). If it wasn’t tonight, it’s very, very close. This has long been sort of a personal goal. Many years ago someone a few degrees […]
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And I thought the hawk shoots were bad.
Content warning: Animal cruelty.
Let’s commit some nerd heresy
So while I don’t do it often anymore, I used to go to the movies a lot. I have a relatively good suspension of disbelief. My dad used to show us Star Wars on tape when I was a kid; it was a recorded copy, and at some point we gave him a set of […]
Stop saying cannibalism
Chickens are from Superorder Galloanserae, which split off from Neognathae 85 million years ago. Hawks are part of “Neoaves”, an entirely different superorder that split from Neognathae around the time of K-T extinction event. While it’s theorized that the first placental mammals divered about 100-85 MYA, there are no known placental mammal fossils from before […]