Here: Top row left to right: eastern box turtle, pancake tortoise and Bell’s hingeback tortoise. Middle row left to right: radiated tortoise, Florida box turtle and Burmese star tortoise. Bottom row left to right: spotted turtle, Bourret’s box turtle and European pond turtle. For me, the bottom row is a bit of an anti-climax, but … Continue reading Colourful turtles and tortoises
My habit of opening too many windows at once, and also the rather intrusive vagaries of my back-up system, mean that Twitter, for me, comes and goes. So it’s been a while since I took a look at the Steve Stewart-Williams Twitter feed. Earlier today, I picked out lots of stuff to link to this … Continue reading The front of an electric scooter gets attached to the front of a wheelchair – turning it into an electric tricycle
Every so often, this blog attracts a flurry of attention from some mysterious other place that I am typically not clever enough to identify, and today this is happening again. The posting that is today attracting a stampede, by my very modest standards, of hits is one I did way back last October, about Jonathan … Continue reading Four of BrianMicklethwaitsNewBlog dot com’s greatest hits
Having recently received a life sentence of quite advanced lung cancer, I find myself noticing reports like this one entitled Ultra-precise lasers remove cancer cells without damaging nearby tissue. Cancer treatment is progressing fast, in all manner of directions, and I am now seeing stories of this sort every few days. Will it progress fast … Continue reading The hope of progress
It’s been a while since I have consulted the Twitter feed of Steve Stewart-Williams. Of his recent tweets, this is my favourite. Plus see also Dog retrieves tennis ball from pool without getting wet, and the human animal in 2020.
A new restaurant is opening up in Tel Aviv: At a new restaurant in Tel Aviv called The Chicken, the chicken on the menu is grown from cells in a bioreactor in an adjacent pilot plant visible through a glass window. Diners don’t pay for their meals; instead, SuperMeat, the startup making the “cultured chicken” … Continue reading It looks and tastes like conventionally-produced chicken
I love the animal tweets that Steve Stewart-Williams does, but a lot of his non-animal tweets are excellent also. For instance: OK, I wasn’t expecting that: Car-seat laws function as contraception. They raise the cost of having a third child, because most cars can’t fit three car seats in the back. In 2017, the laws … Continue reading Car seat laws as contraception
Whenever Friday comes around, I like to do postings that involve the other animals with whom we share our planet. I mean, this is the internet. And currently my favourite source of animal stuff is the Twitter page of Steve Stewart-Williams. He wrote a book about one of the apes, The Ape That Understood The … Continue reading Some recent animal tweets from SS-W
My go-to guy for creature postings, which I like to do on Friday, is Steve Stewart-Williams, and he has recently tweeted about plenty of impressive creaturely behaviour. There’s this shark, jumping out of the sea. There’s this butterfly pretending to be leaves. There are fishes doing social distancing. There are lions and hyenas having a … Continue reading The great upward kink in the graphs of human creature comforts
Steve Stewart-Williams calls this …: … “relatable”. I concur. LATER: Also from SS-W, happy landing.