Flower Snark flowersnark@gmail.com 2026-06-18T08:48:32-04:00 urn:uuid:d248da0c-3e5b-4196-9d1b-e54ad3250a6d

Here is a very cool video which shows a dust devil that formed during episode 49 of the Kīlauea eruption.

2026-06-18T08:45:26-04:00 2026-06-18T08:45:26-04:00 urn:uuid:feb46198-3ea0-481f-88f0-5bd97592fe0b

Betty's bark scares off religious fanatics attempting to deposit rubbish in our mailbox.

2026-06-10T14:00:10-04:00 2026-06-10T14:00:10-04:00 urn:uuid:91d62299-0aac-453d-9a39-40dfa371b5d2

Encounters with goldfinches, a bluebird, and a chipmunk.

2026-06-09T17:33:23-04:00 2026-06-09T17:33:23-04:00 urn:uuid:ad6600ce-08df-435f-a602-3fff01e1e07e

I reflect about two years of retirement.

2026-05-31T17:26:33-04:00 2026-05-31T17:26:33-04:00 urn:uuid:cfff9247-6b87-4fb1-89e5-9a7829e5163f

We can determine a lot about the last eukaryotic common ancestor by looking at ourselves.

2026-05-27T16:58:44-04:00 2026-05-27T16:58:44-04:00 urn:uuid:91f15833-f089-4d0f-ba4e-0835e5c26409

Here is an accessible video about Gerd Faltings (winner of the 2026 Abel Prize) work.

2026-05-25T13:04:20-04:00 2026-05-25T13:04:20-04:00 urn:uuid:9bd42f66-1b5b-4cba-88f5-7f647d2234d6

Bananas lower the nutritional value of smoothies.

2026-05-24T22:58:52-04:00 2026-05-24T22:58:52-04:00 urn:uuid:75f80d9a-1494-4c77-9daf-da4b7c5565d8

AI messes up a Google search.

2026-05-24T22:47:56-04:00 2026-05-24T22:47:56-04:00 urn:uuid:1f2a7de3-1b5b-4705-88f5-298f6c1b3d8a

String theory cannot yet be ruled out as a valid theory of our universe.

2026-05-24T22:37:34-04:00 2026-05-24T22:37:34-04:00 urn:uuid:f123a786-fcbb-4ac6-b847-6725bcf3e60e

I want to see and touch these 567 million years old fossils.

2026-05-24T22:28:31-04:00 2026-05-24T22:28:31-04:00 urn:uuid:f44c1f54-0162-4ed4-95f0-fb728baecf3b

Why were the arms of T. rex so short?

2026-05-24T22:15:56-04:00 2026-05-24T22:15:56-04:00 urn:uuid:19799ffa-f939-4fa6-80a8-00c7960313a6

Generality is our specialty.

2026-05-24T22:03:01-04:00 2026-05-24T22:03:01-04:00 urn:uuid:ae663b40-fea6-48b9-a6a9-5c7d0d606e2b

Give thanks to fungi.

2026-05-24T21:42:46-04:00 2026-05-24T21:42:46-04:00 urn:uuid:294769f8-b18c-4419-ad9f-f55093c9e23e

Diversity is an evolutionary necessity.

2026-05-24T21:34:21-04:00 2026-05-24T21:34:21-04:00 urn:uuid:9a823df8-5486-4110-8c9e-b223066b53f2

Horses are scary animals.

2026-05-24T21:25:46-04:00 2026-05-24T21:25:46-04:00 urn:uuid:3799c68d-d5ae-46eb-85d5-21784d99e56b

Opinion surveys are useless.

2026-05-24T21:10:46-04:00 2026-05-24T21:10:46-04:00 urn:uuid:2aa49123-a744-4cd9-b678-1b6be2bbe0e5

Would you use a Neanderthal dentist?

2026-05-24T20:32:45-04:00 2026-05-24T20:32:45-04:00 urn:uuid:69f9a799-91b1-41cc-879f-14042d2cb236

I'm given dementia tests that are performed incorrectly.

2026-05-24T20:23:33-04:00 2026-05-24T20:23:33-04:00 urn:uuid:a4356e76-913a-4890-843e-75372193fcfc

Wavy Gravy's hippie life goes on.

2026-05-24T20:14:08-04:00 2026-05-24T20:14:08-04:00 urn:uuid:0d9d8d65-9bc7-4e34-b33f-035296d8b9f2

We now know why life survived Snowball Earth.

2026-05-16T16:34:58-04:00 2026-05-16T16:34:58-04:00 urn:uuid:67e76ec8-0af6-4636-8486-5b0c0df63d7b

The use of molybdenum by life goes way back to the Mesoarchean.

2026-05-16T16:25:39-04:00 2026-05-16T16:25:39-04:00 urn:uuid:2f957a64-9db8-422d-a862-61617ccb3645

Acupuncture has always been a bogus treatment.

2026-05-16T15:44:26-04:00 2026-05-16T15:44:26-04:00 urn:uuid:57ffa0e4-7ef1-4fe3-aecd-6cdb6a1da45f

Sonoma State made a good move by eliminating athletics.

2026-05-16T15:33:47-04:00 2026-05-16T15:33:47-04:00 urn:uuid:8cb729e3-48fa-48b2-8842-6983ef77f62d

The Canvas learning management system struggles with an attack.

2026-05-16T15:20:48-04:00 2026-05-16T15:20:48-04:00 urn:uuid:ee8aa2ab-a6fa-4f38-8767-20f87413640c

Putting a hamster to work. The animal is not harmed.

2026-05-16T15:10:49-04:00 2026-05-16T15:10:49-04:00 urn:uuid:2e465843-58cf-46e4-8a41-80639fcbd19d

Avoid using AI if you need to stay sharp.

2026-05-16T14:59:37-04:00 2026-05-16T14:59:37-04:00 urn:uuid:17fc66c5-fc47-4174-b485-909f7d740757

True love of a child includes vaccination.

2026-05-16T14:28:13-04:00 2026-05-16T14:28:13-04:00 urn:uuid:5b9aad16-3956-4be3-8dcb-af2f05be1f73

Not giving a newborn a vitamin K shot is child abuse in my book.

2026-05-16T14:15:09-04:00 2026-05-16T14:15:09-04:00 urn:uuid:eb2b2b91-0a27-42eb-bc32-e88341dbb3c6

Newton's inverse square law of gravity passes a big test.

2026-05-16T14:02:28-04:00 2026-05-16T14:02:28-04:00 urn:uuid:1d5abf76-4258-494d-a4b2-b369bc311598

OnlyOffice tries to circumvent the GNU Affero General Public License and fails.

2026-05-16T13:48:51-04:00 2026-05-16T13:48:51-04:00 urn:uuid:f7025ea9-3e44-4a2c-844a-c52d6f2d8aa4

It is possible that the dinosaurs emerged 10 million years before the earliest dinosaur fossils that have been discovered.

2026-05-01T11:21:24-04:00 2026-05-01T11:21:24-04:00 urn:uuid:04abe18c-b128-4d24-a140-eca715e46e58

If you want to eat 1/3 of a pizza, then here is one way to do that. But why?

2026-04-30T15:15:48-04:00 2026-04-30T15:15:48-04:00 urn:uuid:433c2d9b-ecb9-43ee-9c56-0265bfc4d236

My seventh grade math teacher didn't know enough mathematics.

2026-04-29T16:34:57-04:00 2026-04-29T16:34:57-04:00 urn:uuid:9b33d27c-3011-43be-a613-ffb62569933b

Daisies living on the Galápagos tell us much about evolution via natural selection.

2026-04-27T10:53:45-04:00 2026-04-27T10:53:45-04:00 urn:uuid:d47f7e47-593b-4364-96b9-3db1f5334a40

A new and powerful knot invariant has been discovered. Betty makes an appearance.

2026-04-22T15:25:24-04:00 2026-04-22T15:25:24-04:00 urn:uuid:b0ea286e-b67b-4c38-9b0e-e6f18fdcd70c

A favorite creationist claim has been completely debunked by science.

2026-04-21T20:34:51-04:00 2026-04-21T20:34:51-04:00 urn:uuid:4abdd8de-df86-4ebe-9539-55cf61def818

The eye reveals how we cope with mental mathematics.

2026-04-21T20:24:17-04:00 2026-04-21T20:24:17-04:00 urn:uuid:edef4e1c-0205-4ab1-8df6-af514d8e3c50

Fusion power probably can't ever compete with renewable energy systems in terms of cost.

2026-04-21T20:11:18-04:00 2026-04-21T20:11:18-04:00 urn:uuid:ab64d05c-d5cc-417f-860a-503444d6f26e

Here is more proof of the inhumanity of Republican ideology.

2026-04-21T19:57:21-04:00 2026-04-21T19:57:21-04:00 urn:uuid:aa88c6a4-f03f-4b9c-a907-93a0385284eb

It isn't easy to measure the gravitational constant.

2026-04-21T19:46:21-04:00 2026-04-21T19:46:21-04:00 urn:uuid:35f7aead-0a31-41b8-be15-2d6d81d3c2d5

Observations made during a pleasant morning.

2026-04-21T19:31:55-04:00 2026-04-21T19:31:55-04:00 urn:uuid:8f713e77-660f-4cd0-add8-4c2ce26b68c7

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is a new temple of science in Chile.

2026-04-21T19:26:42-04:00 2026-04-21T19:26:42-04:00 urn:uuid:1ca0a6c5-96cc-48bf-ac45-d60e18840571

Here is a taste of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm.

2026-04-21T19:13:37-04:00 2026-04-21T19:13:37-04:00 urn:uuid:3121554a-35f7-47b8-b381-2f4af30936c5

If mathematics says something exists, then it cannot be said that it shouldn't exist.

2026-04-21T19:03:19-04:00 2026-04-21T19:03:19-04:00 urn:uuid:fb366318-a68c-4bda-becf-3473a65464c3

Simulations of the evolution of our universe made by the COLIBRE project.

2026-04-16T17:24:26-04:00 2026-04-16T17:24:26-04:00 urn:uuid:de5cc9be-2c25-43f5-8265-3c0e8c91003a

Video from April 9, 2026 of episode 44 of the eruption of Kīlauea.

2026-04-10T11:12:03-04:00 2026-04-10T11:12:03-04:00 urn:uuid:7789ce5f-67ef-4c0d-a3d4-4c30be2ecdbc

Is terraforming Mars possible?

2026-04-10T11:03:26-04:00 2026-04-10T11:03:26-04:00 urn:uuid:a06a1d9a-3da0-482d-8566-a735f93c7925

Why AI cannot be trusted for medical advice.

2026-04-10T10:53:50-04:00 2026-04-10T10:53:50-04:00 urn:uuid:119506f4-ec7c-4040-a369-76d1d7e9c941

Mathematics can be done anywhere, but doing it is more fun in a good space.

2026-04-07T17:24:57-04:00 2026-04-07T17:24:57-04:00 urn:uuid:795e444e-f737-4fb6-b27d-951bce67adaa

How does one become a mathematician anyway?

2026-04-06T19:41:08-04:00 2026-04-06T19:41:08-04:00 urn:uuid:9d0acc87-5000-4b3f-8355-be67ea79d3b8

A delusional FEMA official claims that God teleported him to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia.

2026-04-05T16:39:15-04:00 2026-04-05T16:39:15-04:00 urn:uuid:adc8c9c7-3ae1-4f61-a572-2f7faf994999

My new Tibetan prayer flags along with pictures of Betty.

2026-04-04T14:53:06-04:00 2026-04-04T14:53:06-04:00 urn:uuid:224cc48d-8066-44fa-b3cc-2c8c8e6ac3db

How I deal with attacks on my website.

2026-03-31T15:59:55-04:00 2026-03-31T15:59:55-04:00 urn:uuid:9c6a6eb3-3117-4f26-895d-4fbc1424852c

It appears that ecological carrying capacity is far less than the current number of humans on this planet.

2026-03-31T15:39:49-04:00 2026-03-31T15:39:49-04:00 urn:uuid:4af22260-f18e-45a6-a330-2d0c30ccb639

Global warming doesn't mean always warm.

2026-03-29T13:03:18-04:00 2026-03-29T13:03:18-04:00 urn:uuid:c4906cdf-485e-4598-97ee-e6c5845ec460

AI and creativity still don't mix.

2026-03-28T12:51:59-04:00 2026-03-28T12:51:59-04:00 urn:uuid:c77a18f8-a7cc-4592-8c80-1df196f8b0a9

Read about a supervolcano in Japan.

2026-03-27T17:05:07-04:00 2026-03-27T17:05:07-04:00 urn:uuid:ea563fa2-9a66-46aa-b375-d5d1292f2dd8

GitHub screws over its users once again.

2026-03-27T16:52:00-04:00 2026-03-27T16:52:00-04:00 urn:uuid:97944f94-1b19-44de-a4ab-810b8c8bb649

Some mathematicians are planning to boycott of the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians for very good reasons.

2026-03-27T15:40:00-04:00 2026-03-27T15:40:00-04:00 urn:uuid:b1363073-649c-4d51-9808-b5b03fc04a63

Watch sperm whales care for a youngster.

2026-03-27T15:27:01-04:00 2026-03-27T15:27:01-04:00 urn:uuid:05e66506-74ad-4fa4-b832-9fea8be9db80

It isn't just genetics that determines who you are.

2026-03-27T14:46:42-04:00 2026-03-27T14:46:42-04:00 urn:uuid:ba0b18dc-481d-4f37-a76b-ed4c8c00d888

It is probably important to always be mentally active.

2026-03-27T14:33:52-04:00 2026-03-27T14:33:52-04:00 urn:uuid:9db13024-1faf-4247-8801-55696c750dc8

Global warming slows the planet's rotation.

2026-03-27T14:21:45-04:00 2026-03-27T14:21:45-04:00 urn:uuid:79fff00e-c11f-4acb-84fb-d216a4f131fc

Dogs have been with humans for much longer than previously known.

2026-03-27T14:05:01-04:00 2026-03-27T14:05:01-04:00 urn:uuid:c3501545-4607-4091-87fd-17dbfe3ef79f

Podcast audio recording equipment recommendations.

2026-03-25T19:45:23-04:00 2026-03-25T19:45:23-04:00 urn:uuid:4658f88a-e754-4d08-9a7e-916f21d14c49

Here are some comments about an attack on the Xubuntu website.

2026-03-24T12:37:05-04:00 2026-03-24T12:37:05-04:00 urn:uuid:8a19f4f3-1afa-4198-86dd-cd212251a095

More research into Snowball Earth.

2026-03-24T12:26:51-04:00 2026-03-24T12:26:51-04:00 urn:uuid:24ef068d-e373-41a4-9139-cbc08141c09a

Here is an amazing report from the World Meteorlogical Association.

2026-03-23T14:25:18-04:00 2026-03-23T14:25:18-04:00 urn:uuid:d7ce2602-24f4-4f1e-87b3-d80d0c81494b

There just might be fundamental limits that prevent quantum computers from ever becoming useful machines.

2026-03-23T12:41:09-04:00 2026-03-23T12:41:09-04:00 urn:uuid:9a49d0c1-dede-4973-8d35-3d9e72e8347f

Ohio State is immersed in scandal, and this makes me very sad.

2026-03-22T14:22:09-04:00 2026-03-22T14:22:09-04:00 urn:uuid:c5886e05-9836-4df1-a20c-277767a1e86a

Is all science provisional? I contend that some science is absolute.

2026-03-22T14:03:54-04:00 2026-03-22T14:03:54-04:00 urn:uuid:9708a429-549f-4ab4-b20f-3a9fbdc40976

The first post of Tidbits explaining the hows and whys of it.

2026-03-20T17:14:06-04:00 2026-03-20T17:14:06-04:00 urn:uuid:6cbd76fc-cd52-11f0-b7df-59c1c5084ec9