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Per Erik Ahlberg is a Swedish palaeontologist working with the earliest tetrapods. He took his Ph.D. in zoology at the… more

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I know. 😜

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He would be a better fit for the Herod the Great Prize, if there were such a thing.
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“I wonder what ‘emetica’ means? Never mind, it looks tasty!”
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Nestene consciousness?
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What's in his other hand, presumably.
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Oh, you're describing the US as "Western Russia"! OK, then I understand what you mean.
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Annexed western Russia??
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You do realize that most of the NATO members are European? And Canada would never side with the US against Europe. Obviously the US could turn traitor and align with Russia, but a "NATO against Europe" scenario is simply impossible: it's a contradiction in terms.
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No. Russia lacks the strength to do this.
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Supported by a crack regiment of massed cardinals, no less.
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At the time the Nobel Prizes were created, Sweden and Norway were in a (not entirely happy) political union. Alfred Nobel decreed in his will that the awarding of the prizes should be split between Sweden and Norway.
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Can you get seal costumes as well? That would be even funnier.
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Meanwhile, the Solomon’s Seal is just…strange. Why does it do this?
A plant stem with leaves - each one half green, half yellow.
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Autumn in the garden. The pond vegetation is settling into tousled senescence, but behind it the giant Veronica vies with a self-seeded hazel for brightest autumn colour.
An overgrown pond with yellow autumn foliage behind.
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favourite trick - but we hugely enjoyed the whole episode. Junior was entertaining company, but above all we felt strangely touched by the way the parents obviously felt they could entrust us with the most precious thing they had. As if they said to us “we know you are good people”.

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one of the stems. Janet and I go “Noo!” and wag our fingers as you would with a naughty toddler. Crow stops, looks at us, walks deliberately round to the far side of the plant and pecks at it again.

The garden sustained a minor amount of damage - pulling leaves off our bearded irises was another
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about and poking its beak into things, and - in typical corvid manner - trying to get a rise out of us. Case in point: Janet is very fond of her peonies. At one point we were sitting about 2 m away from a prize specimen of ‘Soft Salmon Saucer’ when the crow walks up, looks at us, and pecks hard at
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far away, one on our roof and the other in a neighbouring tree, but they left junior alone to explore our garden while we were out there. This carried on for several hours until the parents called their baby away and they all left. The process repeated day after day. Junior was great fun, hopping
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In raising one chick. Then, one day, we were out in the garden (as so often) when both adults came over and started, well, checking us out. This carried on for a couple of days. Then the parents arrived with their chick - almost full size but still with a juvenile look - and left. They were not
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We had an amazing experience this summer, though sadly I don’t have any photos to document it. A pair of hooded crows had been nesting in a pine across the street, and frankly made a bit of a menace of themselves by repeatedly raiding our pond for frogs. But we left them to it, and they succeeded
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Wonderful! There's a certain feeling of 70s metal about it, just a touch of Ritchie Blackmore perhaps.
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It has branch offices in Normandy as well.
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Sentences. There's your first clue right there.
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What’s his end game? I don’t see what this achieves except buying a very small amount of time.

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Has anyone told him that the Insurrection Act isn't an Insurrection Enabling Act? I mean, given that he's plainly engaged in an insurrection against the United States?

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The Genesis version is a crashingly obvious knock-off of this story, probably inserted during the Babylonian captivity (in Babylon, everyone will have known this story, kind of like the Iliad in ancient Greece) to align the Hebrew origin with with what 'everyone knew' about the distant past.

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The Flood is caused, not by YHWH, but by a conspiracy of the great gods Anu, Enlil, Ninurta, Ennugi and Ea. However, EA is a turncoat and snitches to Utnapishtim (whispering through the wall of his reed house), commanding him to build his ark. After the Flood, Utnapishtim is granted immortality.
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...and in any case a flagrant copyright violation. This is an earlier version, part of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian, but even this isn't the oldest; the original is Sumerian. "Noah" is called Utnapishtim (or Atrahasis, or Ziusudra, depending on the text) and lives in the city of Shuruppak.
A broken clay tablet covered in cuneiform script, recounting the epic of Gilgamesh.
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I love how the headline implies that there can be "not excessive" amounts of chemical munitions used against civilians. Teargassing your own citizens AT ALL is not generally a sign of a well-functioning democracy.
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