The Dissertation Is Officially Real!

The dissertation is officially real!

Fun fact: You can fit a barn owl inside a Quaker oats container.

Some of their tail and wings will stick out a bit but the whole rest of the bird fits inside ao this is a sound method to use when banding youngsters who are near fledging (and thus adult sized).

Cold War overproduction of nukes is commonly attributed to fears of a "missile gap," despite this being obviously farcical. In reality, this was mere cover for the real reasons: the USSR, as the world's first atheist state, needed a much larger deterrent to keep the angelic legions of heaven at bay, whereas the US's pioneering work on quantum mechanics led to a tense standoff with dozens of different parallel USSRs that threatened to attack simultaneously.

A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.

love learning about odd-couple interspecies joint-nesting events

nesties (nest besties)

[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/93366974] Anhinga || Anhinga anhinga Observed in United States Least Concern in location of observation