Linkfest

A few interesting things from here and there.

Lucky Pluvialis, having just been to the shore, is going to Central Asia. I have been warning her in the comments section about correct drinking habits.

Looks like the magnetic poles are due to flip again. Many are worried about migrating animals. I am too, I guess, but I am even more puzzled. They have survived many such flips-- how? Might they have multiple, redundant systems?

The Russian fox researchers who have shed so much light on domestication have also been working with rats. Their experiments may shed light on human evo as well. EVERYONE sent this in-- thanks!

Alan Gates at Eagle Falconer has added many galleries of photos and information on Asian hawking-- he has been to Mongolia, Kyrgizstan, and China. He also has material on longdogs, cormorants, and shrikes. Nobody else ranges so far, or has spent so much time with Asian masters in cultures where intimate conact with hunting animals is still the norm. A "must- visit".

Carel Brest Van Kempen veers from his usual musings on science and art to celebrate his neighbors' history. It's not every day you'll catch an evolutionary biologist- artist writing on Mormons!

Here is a photo gallery of thoroughly strange food. Probably not for the squeamish, if any such read this site.

At Orion, a contrarian lesson about the mites currently infesting and damaging honey bees. Let the bees evolve!

Derb finds a splendid "Doom and Gloom" from a fellow master, the late Kingsley Amis.

More shortly!