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Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
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-Benjamin Franklin
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Frog Eggs and Toad Eggs
Spring seems to have finally arrived, and soon the pond will be full of little frogs. As it turns out, frog eggs and toad eggs are different, and far easier to tell apart than the tadpoles. Frog eggs typically form nice clumps. -this years batch are particularly muddy. Toad eggs, however, will generally be in Read more
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The Power Elites
About the time I was learning to read, C. Wright Mills was writing the sociological classic The Power Elite. Like his The Sociological Imagination, it is a text that remains insightful 60 years after his death. Mills was a conflict theorist, strongly influenced by Weber and Marx . . . and I suppose it would Read more
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Thatch Ants
Our mound-building ants in this part of the country are Western Thatching Ants, Formica obscuripes.These ants are rather special because they generally have multiple active queens in a single colony – the young queens often help out and reproduce at home, instead of founding their own new colonies… Read more
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An IQ Too Low for the Military
Jordan Peterson has a brief video on youtube describing the IQ cutoff the US military uses in recruitment. (Jordan Peterson | The Most Terrifying IQ Statistic) He explains that the army doesn’t recruit for people who score below 83 because they can’t be trained. I think he has simplified the explanation – the ASVAB is Read more
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Non-reproducible research
About 20 years ago, I realized that I had a fairly unique opportunity to test the hypothesis that 4-H was strongest where it was multigenerational – 4-H members grew up to be 4-H leaders, and the program was strongest where the multi-generational membership was the most common. I was working with 22 counties, and 4 Read more
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Comparing Annual Meetings
InterBel Telephone Cooperative held its annual meeting on Saturday. It was a bright, sunlit morning and a well attended meeting; 311 people were registered when the meeting began (Unlike Lincoln Electric’s Meeting with only 97 members registered). Attendance: InterBel definitely had better attendance- but more about whether or not that’s a virtue for attendee’s later. Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 