happened to be listening to NPR, driving to the office, noticing more cars than usual for that time of day, a few hours before the sun begins peering from the east, a glimmer of light, pinkish hues, and shy blues, or maybe not, as there are enough clouds spread overhead to cloak the scene -oh well, and anyway, I am digressing from the main issue here, so hang in tight as I make a sharp u-turn and get this ship on the right track...
Voila! So NPR it was, and to be more precise, the piece that grabbed my attention by the horns, came right after a great deal of talk on the new Cancer screening guideline, and was titled Fungus Provides Clues To North American Extinctions -click on the title for more details on this fascinating subject. But for those of you with little time and patience for link browsing, I'll summarize its content, as follows:
Scientist posits, (basing herself on new approach, having to do with the study of dinosaur dung loving fungus deposits, in North American portion of continent,) that humans might have caused over-sized antediluvian mammals' extinction, instead of a comet hitting the blue planet, or ice age related frostiness...
Anyway, I thought I'd share, or maybe I was just hoping that by telling you about it, I might distill this image, that is now floating inside my cranium, of humans spreading like a dark cloud of locusts, heading south, a bit like carnivorous geese migrating to the Florida Keys, or wherever it is that geese migrate to.
So kudos NPR and dinosaur-dung-aficionado-like-fungus studying scientist! Way to go! Way to give something to be of when I contemplate my roots! Yes! Got to be proud -wouldn't you say?
Be well, and by the way, where is the moon? I haven't seen her for quite some days now.
Missing my moon
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The situation is not that bad :). Jacquelyn Gill and Co believe that we still cannot completely rule out climate change (see original Science paper). So we can choose feeling unguilty for now... Karim, thank you for your posts! Be well!
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