Late rain, then walking the Horrific Hound, mostly around campus …
rDay Five-Hundred-Sixty-Three: Late Afternoon
Day: October 8, 2016
Great Human Odyssey
I’ve already told some of you about this, but now we spread the word. Don’t miss the Nova special, Great Human Odyssey, a two-hour PBS program that ran on October 5, I think (we caught it last night online). One of its segments that particularly fascinated me was the story of early, thousands-of-years-ago Polynesian navigation and how recreations of the same watercraft using ancient navigation skills — no charts, no GPS, no instruments, just reading the stars and flows of ocean currents — is being employed to circumnavigate the world in a three-year voyage, currently underway. Read more about the voyage here.
rDay Five-Hundred-Sixty-Three: Local Urban Fall Color
Leaving St. Charles the Persistent behind, Kim and I engage in some Saturday morning shopping errands…
le mot juste
Oh, oh. This article on Nautilus tells us how declines in written expression may foreshadow Alzheimer’s and such conditions. I’ve certainly noticed continuing quality degradation in my blog posts and email messages. Maybe we need an app for this …
Not the Farm I Remember
Documenting a far cry from the Iowa family farm of a few hundred acres of my youth, photographer George Steinmetz shows in a photo essay in the New York Times Magazine the incredible scale of modern agriculture.