In Which Hammer Hits Nailhead

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Segnosaurus galbinensis based loosely on a ske...

Was going to post this on Facebook (had already posted it on Twitter), but realized that this is the kind of stuff I used to bring here. Back in the old days.

Anyway: I ran across this (via Twitter) this morning and want to make sure as many people as possible see it. The content is delightful and informative.

BUT: the Big Important Point is one that I've hammered at for a long time, and the one that drives all my work: It's a perfect, and I do mean perfect, example of how academics, experts, intellectuals of all kinds (scientists, anthropologists, historians, whatever) can use new media to communicate complex ideas to a wide audience.

Perfection.

Q & A Series: Wanda Patsche

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By bringing the hogs inside we can take much better care of them. In Minnesota, our weather varies significantly. We have blizzards with temperatures well below zero and at time, wind chills of -70 degrees. In the summer, we have hot, humid weather and many times temperatures nearing a humid 90 degrees, and that doesn’t address sunburn or insect bites. Neither of these weather extremes are good for hogs.

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Memo: To Whom It May Concern

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Changed my mind about the category for the "other" stuff. While spending six hours yesterday driving Interstate 80 (ugh), it occurred to me that "The FUN Stuff" is a bit too specific: it implies that the content of the the posts so categorized is all "fun."

But --- sometimes it's not.

So: The secret category has a new name: Internal Memos. Because often the content springs from some place deep in my brain ("internal" -- get it?). And because those posts tend to appeal to sort of an oddball group --- not quite a cabal but a kind of inner circle ("internal" --- get it?) (If you don't get it, it's not you; it's me. Truly.)

So