Recent content by JBR

If there's much to the story(?). Quite aside from it being worthwhile to consider the ethical and other dimensions of this news, I couldn't help being just a little amused. "Scientists Grew Mini Brains... Trained Them to Solve Engineering Problem" When I was a teenager, friends and I would see...

In BC we have Natural Resource Operators (NROs, or Resource Operators) who work for the Ministry of Forests. These are the vast areas of what's termed "working forest" from which timber is extracted. The personnel become qualified by having the required forestry education — certain degrees or...

Two things. I'm from BC, Canada, and I have no idea what a Civil Service Conservation is. ?? Second, I have worked with people, and have friends who are, from Quebec. And I think that the term "Frog", as a slang label, is crude... and often meant to be derogatory. I'd never use it, and neither...

Just guessing... Or maybe something people in the past knew how to do well? Implying skill.

They sure dressed more upscale in those days than we did, in my time of doing that sort of work.:unsure:

Over the years, we've seen many, many snakes on our property. Various sizes, from ones maybe 18" long and thin (not much more than a pencil width). Some of the thinner ones have a black body with a red stripe, some look similar (though longer) with yellow stripes. But even in the warmer seasons...

I receive my email on my 2022-model Macbook Pro, using its Mail app. Just lately, I'e found that there can be a delay of up to seven hours between when emails arrive at my email-server's storage system and when they come to my online laptop. I know that Apple routinely sends updates to my apps...

This is one my daughter has liked a lot, having heard it from the records of people of her parent's friends. But I don't say this is the best story ever told in a song... about which I have no opinion. But the lyrics have a sequential narrative, which makes the story clear. And the energetic...

We have a small proportion of pines (mostly White Pine and Ponderosa Pine) in our local forests, quite a bit of spruce. And Douglas Fir, Larch (a cousin to Tamarack). Some Paper Birch, Douglas Maple, Aspen, very occasional Yew And in wetter areas Cottonwood poplar.

🥹Your forest type looks very familiar. I'm sure there's some overlap in tree species.

Here are a few. On our place, looking eastward from the deck... Southeast corner of the deck, a couple years back (we've not had so much snow this winter)... Pet-cat's footprints...

The big news this morning. King Midas is likely to be upset, to say the least.

Who is the artist?

I agree that all sorts of "breakthroughs" are occurring. Given development time, some may prove quite practical and very beneficial, some will not. Also, the significance of breakthroughs occurs in many realms of application, so it isn't really possible to decide which will be "the next big...

@MarkD, does your post imply that you are familiar with Rupert Sheldrake's work?