Tapir Trouble

This is too wonderful not to share.
https://new.reddit.com/r/sleepywrens/

04:11 PM - May 05, 2024

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Anthony's bringing back Coffee With Tony -- Jun 1st!
Announced by Tony at about 19 min in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41akvx6pIQ

'Little Gazas' with Anthony Atamanuik & Max of UNFTR ((Ep 229) - YouTube

President Biden and leading Democrats join with Republicans in criminalizing student Palestine protests, as Sen. Tom Cotton tries to make "little Gazas" happ...

01:15 AM - May 04, 2024

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Cloudy on the BC coast -- I fancied I might have seen a bite out of the sun, during a brief glimpse just before 11:30 and I went in to teach the last class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGO9in5epHw

Louis Armstrong "That Lucky Old Sun" - YouTube

Written by Beasley Smith

05:51 PM - Apr 08, 2024

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I hadn't heard of this before.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/americas/purkinje-effect-total-solar-eclipse-scn/index.html

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The total solar eclipse will create an optical illusion known as the Purkinje effect. Here’s how to see it | CNN

Those viewing a total solar eclipse can experience an optical illusion known as the Purkinje effect, which causes red colors to fade and greens and blues to pop.

02:37 AM - Apr 05, 2024

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Sadly -- I'll be three time zones away. I'd imagined walking into the field behind my folks' place to watch. But it wouldn't be the same without Mom and Dad. Type your city into the top right, for a preview.
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/canada/hamilton?iso=20240408

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April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Start time, end time, animation, and detailed viewing information for the upcoming eclipse in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

09:00 PM - Mar 28, 2024

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I wondered why CBC was playing "The Rainbow Connection" this morning, just before the news.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/world/prehistoric-amphibian-fossil-kermit-the-frog-scn/index.html

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Kermitops: Newly identified fossil named for Kermit the Frog could help solve evolutionary puzzle | CNN

Paleontologists have discovered a previously unknown ancient species: Kermitops — an amphibian that predates the dinosaurs and reveals the complexity of frog evolution.

12:42 AM - Mar 23, 2024

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!
"41% of the people who started out as day laborers and other unskilled positions end up at the end of their lives as business owners or other white-collar jobs."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/17/us/irish-potato-famine-immigrants-cec/index.html

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A myth about Irish immigrants who came to the US during the potato famine gets debunked in a new book | CNN

In “Plentiful Country,” historian Tyler Anbinder uses bank records to paint a new picture of the 1.3 million people who fled to the US when famine hit Ireland.

11:24 PM - Mar 17, 2024

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RIP Eleanor Collins.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eleanor-collins-obituary-1.7132681

09:32 PM - Mar 03, 2024

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“Difference leads to diversity. It exists within any given species, it is just natural.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/27/kangaroo-time-anu-scientist-global-science-prize-aaa...

03:47 AM - Feb 28, 2024 (Edited)

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I love how he seems to know that the hasp has to be high enough to clear the staple (I think that's what it's called), before he can slide the bolt open.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz0MaFHi5LI

Tapir.. unlocking the lock of his enclosure.. clever! - YouTube

A Video by a Youtuber: MY Tapir JournalShow case of cleverness of a Malayan tapir.

02:37 AM - Feb 07, 2024

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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling

I hope it wins!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xttrkgKXtZ4

The Last Repair Shop | L.A. Times Short Docs & Searchlight Pictures - YouTube

In a nondescript warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain over 80,000 student musical instruments, the lar...

12:45 AM - Jan 24, 2024

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Tapir Trouble echoed

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🔵 This week's comic...
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Introducing Tom the Dancing Bug's newest character: MICKEY MOUSE!
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Brought to you by the Inner Hive, including longtime member Shane Ham and new member Ross Robbins.

09:12 AM - Jan 02, 2024

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I forgot it's a leap year again, so that really cuts down the number of shared calendar years. I rescued my mom's 1968 tea towel when I cleared out my childhood home, and I think I might have a 1996 in the closet.
https://www.saturdaygift.com/what-calendar-to-reuse-2024/

10:55 PM - Jan 01, 2024

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Speaking of Middle Earth -- very interesting analysis, from a landscape history perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQoMnaxHt1g

05:57 PM - Dec 28, 2023

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A fun idea. I bet someone's done fake travel reviews for some fictional inns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsrvf0XPV_0

05:56 PM - Dec 28, 2023

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXFR6ab214

03:16 PM - Dec 26, 2023

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p.s. The Christmas Carol article points out why it's hard to compare Victorian England to now. The early 1960s are a closer match. The Beatles thought 100 pounds/week was pretty good. Neil Aspinall earned 2.50 pounds/week (2 pounds 10 shillings) as a trainee accountant.

09:41 PM - Dec 25, 2023

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Economics and A Christmas Carol.
"At 52 weeks of work, that would correspond to about £32,000 a year. Bob Cratchit was responsible for maintaining Scrooge’s account books. The average UK accountant today earns a salary of £62,042 per year;"
https://www.measuringworth.com/blog/?p=256

09:33 PM - Dec 25, 2023

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RIP Jaye Edwards. She died last summer, age 103 -- a couple of months after my dad.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2018-1.4930242/how-ww-ii-pil...

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How WW II pilot Jaye Edwards dodged a snowstorm and emerged in blue skies | CBC Radio

Unlike the pilot in the Shepherd who was saved by a ghost, Jaye Edwards says she survived a harrowing flight through a snowstorm en route to Scotland because she put her faith in the plane's ability to fly itself.

10:47 PM - Dec 22, 2023

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I remember listening to the broadcast with my parents at holiday time -- and I still do today, on the old transistor radio that used to be in our kitchen.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-shepherd-movie-1.7064444

10:43 PM - Dec 22, 2023 (Edited)

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https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

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Public Domain Day 2024 | Duke University School of Law

Tweet January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923! By Jennifer Jenkins Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries may be differ..

03:38 AM - Dec 21, 2023

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This is pretty amazing -- and not just because of all the tapirs!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/world-map-filled-with-animals-birds-1.7058119

11:35 AM - Dec 15, 2023

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RIP, Rosalynn Carter.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/19/politics/rosalynn-carter-mental-health-activist-humanitarian-and-form...

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Rosalynn Carter death: former first lady and wife of Jimmy Carter, passes away at 96 | CNN Politics

Rosalynn Carter, who as first lady worked tirelessly on behalf of mental health reform and professionalized the role of the president’s spouse, died Sunday at the age of 96.

06:50 PM - Nov 19, 2023

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https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/11/15/baby-musk-ox-frolic-fall-leaves-moos-pkg-vpx.cnn

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Watch: You'll fall for this baby musk ox that fell for fall foliage | CNN

Watch this adorable baby musk ox that can’t leave a pile of leaves alone. CNN’s Jeanne Moos makes a mountain out of a leaf hill.

09:45 PM - Nov 15, 2023

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The new US National Climate Assessment just came out, and for the first time it features an art gallery. There's some amazing work here.
https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/art-climate/

01:53 PM - Nov 14, 2023

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I wonder what Peter Jackson and that AI could do with this recording ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsjTc6r92N8

06:23 PM - Nov 03, 2023

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Congratulations to Karikó and Weissman on their well-deserved Nobel Prize!
https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-once-dismissed-idea-became-a-leading-tec...

03:11 PM - Oct 02, 2023

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It's former president Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday today. One story about him that isn't as well known is what happened at Chalk River, Ontario before he went into public office.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/chalk-river-nuclear-accident-1.6293574

12:37 PM - Oct 01, 2023

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Got set up with my Umo card today, at London Drugs. Ask at the service desk (the cashiers are directing inquiries up there, because there's some computer work involved). Only takes a couple of minutes though.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-transit-umo-launch-1.6945644

11:39 PM - Aug 25, 2023

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