Kate closed down Radula, and moved all her blogging to Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate.
Did you ever wonder what it’s like to work in the kitchen of a zoo? Kate has the lowdown.
From Urban Primate: "Just to see the scope of what's stored there, in one hand Allyson is holding meatballs. In the other, whole frozen birds . . . complete with feathers."
The photos from that post alone would make a good PowerPoint for some biology class, or a discussion of animals in an elementary class.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Was I too busy to notice?
With the exception of Glenn Beck’s idiot return to 1950s science in an effort to bring back 1950s politics, I didn’t see any major calls for DDT to be brought back to fight West Nile Virus this summer, not even from the Hoover Institute.
DDT is particularly ill-adapted for fighting West Nile Virus. The mosquitoes that carry it are best fought in the larval stage, before they mature. DDT is exactly wrong for water applications.
But that didn’t stop people from asking for DDT as a barrier to WNV in the past. Is some intelligence taking hold now?
Did I miss the editorials? Maybe it was a better summer than it felt like.
(Still fighting stupidity on bedbugs — taking longer than it should.)
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Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
Come on in, the water's fine. Come often: Cleanliness is next to godliness.
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