Nirvana -> Bowie really opened things up on the tail end, walkwise. Longest path length went from 10 to 13. Also: David Byrne and Whitney Houston creating a new path to Dolly Parton. #XPNCountdown #SuchFascinatingInsights #ProcrastinationCoding

Loving the #XPNCountdown, and hooray @wxpnfm.bsky.social for posting the song list! Natural question, which I know everyone is asking: what's the longest walk, where a walk is "Artist A covered Artist B, who covered Artist C, who..."? Based on the songs so far (#28 and up) I get this 10-step path.

Back when I taught, I told students that conservation isn’t about indiv animals. But I just saw this cutie smash into a store window—and I tried to help it. Carried it several blocks bundled in my hat, but it eventually perked up and fluttered off. Alas window strikes are extra lethal for woodcocks.

A hotel room in Providence

Couldn’t bring myself to be pithy today

Jupiter and moons through my small backyard telescope and an iPhone

This paper on chemicals found in LIZARD VENOM eventually led to Ozempic. Fundamental scientific research, done by a team at the now endangered NIH, on a topic no billionaire or politician would recognize as having commercial value or societal importance down the road.

Phone pics, all! Moon + Venus, moon through a telescope, and Jupiter. Not a lot you can see in the middle of Philadelphia, but it’s still the sky!