Happy 2016!

Happy new year to all readers. Have a joyfull, healthy, happy 2016!

What’s the Point of Keeping a Hen Who Cannot Lay Eggs?

A few years ago, I adopted a hen about whom I knew very little except that a farmer did not want her anymore because she had stopped laying eggs. The rest of her past was a mystery, but clearly her life before we adopted her had not been a good one. For one thing, her physical condition was harsh. Her feathers were scant and coarse to the touch. She had been badly debeaked at some point, making it impossible for her to pick up seeds from the ground. The comb on top of her head was deformed and mostly gone, perhaps from an injury or frostbite. She also had a deformity on the side of her face, most likely the result of an untreated skin infection at some earlier time in her life.

NASA used Santa Claus as codename for THREE UFOs spotted on moon during lunar landings

Donna Hare

Donna Hare claims to have worked for computer and engineering contractor Philco Ford during the early 1970s, in NASA’s photo labs on and off the site of the group’s HQ.

Why I Am Cancelling My Documentary on Hillary Clinton

In late 2012, CNN Films approached me about directing a documentary. We discussed a number of potential subjects, and eventually settled on Hillary Rodham Clinton. The film would be ambitious, controversial, and highly visible. But I felt that it was important, that I was qualified to do it, and that I could be fair. CNN gave me complete control (“final cut”) over the theatrical version, and a generous budget.

Endangered Species Act Listing Protects Lions in Africa and India, Director’s Order Strengthens Wildlife Import Restrictions for Violators of Wildlife Laws

In response to the dramatic decline of lion populations in the wild, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today announced it will list two lion subspecies under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Panthera leo leo, located in India and western and central Africa, will be listed as endangered, and Panthera leo melanochaita, located in eastern and southern Africa, will be listed as threatened.

Climatologist Breaks the Silence on Global Warming Groupthink

Dr. Judith Curry is Professor and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Following is her verbal remarks as delivered to last week’s US Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on “Data or Dogma? Promoting Open Inquiry in the Debate Over the Magnitude of the Human Impact on Earth’s Climate.”

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The wings of a bird in flight leave no tracks on the air.

These moving images are birdpaths from Ashes and Snow.

Fly the birdpath.

–Gregory Colbert

Phobias may be memories passed down in genes from ancestors

Memories can be passed down to later generations through genetic switches that allow offspring to inherit the experience of their ancestors, according to new research that may explain how phobias can develop.

Global Warming Hoax, Planned in 1961

Plan for global warming was already laid out in 1961.

Mourning the death of the ‘messiah of Africa’

When Muammar Gaddafi was toppled in 2011, there were scenes of jubilation in Libya. But Jake Wallis Simons didn’t have to go far in Ghana to find those who have fond memories of the executed Libyan leader, and are still mourning his loss.