According to one comprehensive study, Google’s AI Overviews—a feature that summarizes web pages above the site’s usual search results—has already reduced traffic to outside websites by more than 34 percent. The End of Publishing as We Know It. Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media It is sad to admit but I have fallen victim to …
Grouse Camp 2025
Grouse Camp 2025 was last week. I was there for a couple of days. A few grouse were flushed but it was slower than expected. Wed the 22nd with the pix above was great. The conditions were ideal. The trees at 1000 feet had dropped their leaves but lower down there was still some color. …
Native Archeological Trivia
Here is Something Many of you might not know Living on the shores of Lake Erie, if you walk the shoreline in search of driftwood and shells or beach glass, you might come across little ivory-like treasures of stone. Our history tells us that they were found in Indian archeological digs and uses were for …
Arthur Wardle, RI (British, 1864-1949)
Arthur Wardle, RI (British, 1864-1949)Run to groundsigned ‘ARTHUR WARDLE’ (lower left) oil on canvas30 x 22 in. (76 × 56 ст.) Arthur Wardle, RI (British, 1864-1949)Rabbitingsigned ‘Arthur Wardle’ (lower left)oil on canvas26 × 33in. (66.0 x 84.0cm.) Wardle has been a favorite for years.
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American vs German Gun Laws
American vs German Gun Laws
Coronal Mass Ejection (CME).
In July 2012, we almost lost everything. A Carrington-class coronal mass ejection (CME)…one of the most powerful ever recorded…erupted from the Sun, moving at over 7 million miles per hour, and missed Earth by a mere 9 days of orbital travel. To the average person, that sounds like a near miss. But in cosmic terms? …
Whimsy
Chook Tree
Native American Totem Pole
Native American Totem Pole Ketchikan, Alaska Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved from large trees, mostly Western Red Cedar, by cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. The word totem is derived from the Ojibwe word odoodem, “his kinship group”. History Being made of cedar, which decays eventually in …
Murmuration Mysteries
“What’s fascinating is that these highly structured, seemingly purposeful formations might actually be the result of very simple interaction rules,” said Rothamsted’s Andy Reynolds, who conducted the analysis. “The sharpness of the border and the persistence of edge birds aren’t necessarily deliberate strategies. They’re just what happens when the system runs on topological interactions.”The study …