Author: honeyrand
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Tick. Tock.
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In 1947 scientists developed the Doomsday clock as a metaphor for how close we are to destroying the one planet we have with our powerful bombs. According to the clock, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. The clock hasn’t moved for three years. It started at seven minutes to midnight. Since…
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The Monkey Queen can’t get the ape she wants
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It is rare to have a female as the alpha, so she has a tough job anyway. You know, the monkey boys probably didn’t just bow and accept her. Especially since she overthrew the male alpha, something that hadn’t occurred in the 70 years the clan has been observed. Now,…
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The Chairs on the Titanic
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Today I took my own advice. Since I was in my early twenties, I’ve been in charge of someone at work. Over time, the staff grew and became more complex, requiring a management structure. Five people reporting to a manager can vary depending on who’s in and what they do.…
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Nutritional Blood Analysis
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Nutritional Blood Cell Analysis Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of it. I got emails from Abbey’s health food store, and there was an invitation to a nutritional blood cell analysis. “It can tell you things that your annual blood test cannot.” REEEEAAALLLY? Interesting. If it told…
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Did you miss the mid-January asteroid?
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I didn’t miss it, I just didn’t want to know. Ukraine hadn’t started yet, but the Jan 6 Committee was hard at work. Dr. Fauci was refusing to say that the pandemic was winding down. That Rabbi threw a chair at a gunman and the hostages escaped. The whole vax/not…
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So the Earth’s atmosphere is warming while its core is cooling
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The Earth’s core is cooling faster than scientists thought. Well of course it is. Because there’s not enough going on in our world. Election challenge(s). Insurrection. Covid. Inflation. Ukraine and Russia. Exploding undersea volcanoes and the planet core is cooling (or maybe those are related?) So, the outside of the…
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Emotion: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking
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I am not an emotional person, though I sometimes play one in certain circumstances. I have a slow-burn temper, something I have cultivated as I have “matured.” One way I do this is by pretending to be mad well before I’m actually mad. This generally gets the other person to…
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Manatees and seagrass and not thinking ahead
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If you live in Florida, you probably know that manatees are starving because seagrasses are dying. Scientist are desperately trying to feed them lettuce and while it wasn’t working at first, the manatees are coming around. But, how long can we do that? This Smithsonian article is about the value…
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What’s in a Vanity Plate
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I bought a sporty little car this summer (you can’t take it with you) and I bought a vanity plate for it. The plate supports the Florida Wildlife fund and it reads WILDME. That’s how I feel when I drive it. I can feel it in my core. Vroom, vroom.…
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Global warming allows iguana hordes to conquer South Florida
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If you have never been to Fort Lauderdale or Miami, or haven’t been there recently, it’s not just the growth you’ll notice or the diversity. You’ll notice the lizards, the big ubiquitous lizards. They are on the streets, in the trees (though as we’ve learned over the last week, they…