But first: what a race! π₯π₯π₯ Gold for π¨π¦ in the 4×100 at the Worlds!! Big tip of the cap to our dudes @KingsleySC and @De6rasse big backstretch from Jerome Blake, shoutout Brendon Rodney!! π¨π¦π₯π¨π¦ pic.twitter.com/1Gf88AmRMn β Tim Micallef (@tim_micallef) July 24, 2022 Now, some great dances: Fred Astaire said
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Cathie from Canada: Weekend: Music, and Animal Crackers
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer. Eine kleine Banjo musik A little summer banjo. Hereβs a little ditty written by Alison Brown and me. Foggy Morning
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Get The Ducks Out Of Here
At lunch, a bunch of ducks got stuck in a courtyard and needed to be shepherded to the lake. She moved away from the door when I opened it, so a hallway shorcut isn't in the cards. pic.twitter.com/l3Gi8nIcRA — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) June 16, 2022 Ack, rotated pic.twitter.com/LEOlO2gQIh —
Continue readingThings Are Good: Whales Share Knowledge to Defend Against Whalers
Animals warn each other whenever a predator approaches, and in some cases they help each other. In the case of sperm whales they share defensive measures to avoid being killed by whalers. When whalers first started hunting sperm whales they were very successful; however, their effective harpooning rate soon started
Continue readingThings Are Good: Time to get Wild in Scotland
We keep kicking wildlife out of their homes, and it’s time to reverse that process. We need to invite wild animals back into the places they used o live, this is known as rewilding. The most celebrated rewilding effort was done in Yellowstone when wolves were reintroduced into the park,
Continue readingThings Are Good: You Can Protect Birds by Keeping Your Cat Inside
We all love cats, they’re curious and fluffy and provide mixed feedback on whether they like you or not. We all love birds too, that’s why we shouldn’t let them meet. If you are a cat owner please please please keep your cat inside. Cat’s account for millions of bird
Continue readingThings Are Good: Collision: How we can Better Protect Endangered Species
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and Achim Steiner spoke today at Collision at Home about The Lion’s Share organization. The organization looks to protect endangered species by channeling some funding that large companies put into advertising into spending on protecting our environment. It’s basically putting in a voluntary tax earmarked for a specific
Continue readingThings Are Good: Be Conscious of Wild Animal Pictures with Tourists
It’s a sad truth that animals are caught in the wild and are then subsequently forced to entertain tourists against their will. Too often “influencers” and regular tourists take pictures alongside these animals to show how pleasant their travel experience has been, but this ignores the plight of the animals.
Continue readingThings Are Good: Wild Animals Keep our Cities Clean
CBC’s ecological science show is taking an unorthodox look at the vermin and critters in our cities by showing how they help us. On Jan. 31 The Nature of Things will air the episode, trailer above, all about how animals have adapted to urban environments and how those animals end
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: New Year Prediction β The New Veganism
Perhaps not this year, but I can see it coming as clear as the lighting in a laboratory clean room. It started with vegetarianism, a dietary preference to avoid eating meat. And it morphed into veganism, a morality cult claiming any food products related to animals in any way are
Continue readingThings Are Good: Cats do Care
Cats have got a reputation of being uncaring pets that are dumber than dogs. In some cases this reputation is well-earned; however, for most cats they do care and they want you around. It’s taken animal researchers some time to figure a simple approach to testing if cats care, but
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Can We, Should We, Will We Live Forever Online
When typing for this blog I have often wished I could just think my thoughts at the computer and have them type out on the screen. This, no doubt, has much to do with the fact I am a one finger hunt and peck typist (having been streamed into drafting
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Banff Is For The Birds
While the family was picking out candy in the shop behind me, I was watching the birds, and the people go by. Then the birds started going, on the people. Bye! Magpie 1, Man’s jacket 0.
Continue readingPostArctica: Animals With Sharpies
Cool book I found at the library last week. Animals With Sharpies by Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber. And you can order a copy here if you do not object to ordering from a monolithic corporation
Continue readingThings Are Good: Cats Actually Like Humans
It might seem that your cat dosen’t care about you, but that’s not the case. After years of false allegations that cats don’t care about humans we know have empirical evidence that the opposite is true. Cats actually like humans! Researchers at Oregon State University offered 38 cats a choice
Continue readingThings Are Good: Capturing Animals in 3D for the Future
We are witnessing one of the largest extinction events in history because people deny that climate change is happening. Regardless of the deniers and the death of entire species we can do something that will help the future of humanity: getting as much information about those species as we can
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: Extinction crisis signals that itβs time to change course
A new comprehensive report points to a potential human-induced wild-animal population “extinction crisis unlike any since dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.” David Suzuki helps us make sense of it all. The post David Suzuki: Extinction crisis signals that itβs time to change course appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Beer Six Pack Meant For The Oceans
Saltwater Brewery is a beer company that makes the oceans better while selling beer. Most breweries sell their beers in six packs attached by plastic rings and those rings often end up in the ocean chocking sea life and otherwise causing harm to the ecosystem. What Saltwater has done is create a new six pack […]
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Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: A few thoughts on empathy in human beings, and other living creatures
Empathy is natural in human beings, as Jeremy Rifkin has pointed out – and with strong backing by recent scientific findings. Some human beings have more and some less; and some are sociopaths – roughly 1% (and usually, the ones who gravitate to positions of wealth and power, unsurprisingly) –
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Pelicans on Wascana Lake
I never noticed Pelicans on Wascana Lake before about 3 years ago. Before that, they were common on the South Saskatchewan River through Saskatoon.
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