The two months in 1980 that shaped the future of biotech
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/17/two-...f-biotech/
INTRO: In the course of just under two months that started 40 years ago this week, five events occurred that shaped the biotechnology industry and bioscience research. Looking back on these seminal events is a reminder of the odd ways in which change happens... (MORE)
The Scientist Who Wanted Grizzly Bears Eliminated
https://daily.jstor.org/the-scientist-wh...liminated/
INTRO: In 1967, two girls were attacked and killed by grizzly bears in Glacier National Park. This tragic event ignited a public uproar that was “immediate, intense and prolonged,” according to the New York Times. Enter a biologist named Gairdner Moment. In 1969, Moment published an essay responding to the 1967 attack, called “Bears: The Need for a New Sanity in Wildlife Conservation.” The mix of people and grizzly bears in national parks is fundamentally dangerous, he argued. The bold but simple solution: Eliminate the grizzly bears.
The attacks, Moment wrote, “have made it evident that a re-examination is in order for some of our dogmatic, if well-intentioned, philosophies of wildlife conservation and the public relations based on them.” In fact, after a series of vicious campaigns against grizzlies in the 1800s and early 1900s, conservationists had finally started to shift attitudes in favor of protecting the bear... (MORE)
Log Cabin Excavation Unearths Evidence of Forgotten Black Community
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180976064/
EXCERPT: Slate pencils, pieces of dolls and other artifacts found beneath a 180-year-old cabin in Hagerstown, Maryland, speak to a largely overlooked chapter in local African American history. [...] “It is long overdue that this lost and forgotten community rich history story is told,” Reggie Turner, a member of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, tells WJLA. “The African American community here, their history is intertwined with the founder of Hagerstown and now it’s time to talk more about the contributions of this community.”
According to Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist at the highway administration, the cabin was built by German immigrants, probably in the 1830s. Preservation Maryland notes that the city’s founder, Jonathan Hager, may have owned the property at one time. It later became part of an African American commercial and cultural hub.
[...] Turner tells the Sun that Jonathan Street housed a community of free and enslaved black people as early as the 1790s. The neighborhood was a stop on the Underground Railroad, says Nicholas Redding, executive director of Preservation Maryland, but historians are unsure which buildings were actually involved in the anti-slavery network. “It was a secret society,” Redding tells the Sun. “So people didn’t keep records.” (MORE - details)
Ancient, 120-foot-wide drawing of a cat found at Nazca Lines site in Peru
https://gizmodo.com/ancient-120-foot-wid...1845412117
INTRO: An oversized cat drawing has been discovered on a hill at the famous Nazca Lines site in Peru. The impressive artwork dates back some 2,000 years and measures over 120 feet across. The feline geoglyph was literally right under our noses all along.
The drawing is located on the slope of Mirador Natural Hill, which hosts the Natural Viewpoint (la Pampa de Nasca) at the top—an ideal place to observe the Nazca lines located in the region. Workers discovered the drawing by accident during upgrades to the lookout, according to a press release issued by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The site is in the Nazca Desert, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Lima... (MORE)
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The domestic cat wasn't introduced to the New World until Europeans arrived. So this was a pre-Columbian depiction of a wild cat. The Andean mountain cat, the jaguarundi, the kodkod, the pampas cat, etc are examples of small to medium-sized, feral cats native to the New World.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/ZjC5wHHa4Io
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/17/two-...f-biotech/
INTRO: In the course of just under two months that started 40 years ago this week, five events occurred that shaped the biotechnology industry and bioscience research. Looking back on these seminal events is a reminder of the odd ways in which change happens... (MORE)
The Scientist Who Wanted Grizzly Bears Eliminated
https://daily.jstor.org/the-scientist-wh...liminated/
INTRO: In 1967, two girls were attacked and killed by grizzly bears in Glacier National Park. This tragic event ignited a public uproar that was “immediate, intense and prolonged,” according to the New York Times. Enter a biologist named Gairdner Moment. In 1969, Moment published an essay responding to the 1967 attack, called “Bears: The Need for a New Sanity in Wildlife Conservation.” The mix of people and grizzly bears in national parks is fundamentally dangerous, he argued. The bold but simple solution: Eliminate the grizzly bears.
The attacks, Moment wrote, “have made it evident that a re-examination is in order for some of our dogmatic, if well-intentioned, philosophies of wildlife conservation and the public relations based on them.” In fact, after a series of vicious campaigns against grizzlies in the 1800s and early 1900s, conservationists had finally started to shift attitudes in favor of protecting the bear... (MORE)
Log Cabin Excavation Unearths Evidence of Forgotten Black Community
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180976064/
EXCERPT: Slate pencils, pieces of dolls and other artifacts found beneath a 180-year-old cabin in Hagerstown, Maryland, speak to a largely overlooked chapter in local African American history. [...] “It is long overdue that this lost and forgotten community rich history story is told,” Reggie Turner, a member of the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, tells WJLA. “The African American community here, their history is intertwined with the founder of Hagerstown and now it’s time to talk more about the contributions of this community.”
According to Julie Schablitsky, chief archaeologist at the highway administration, the cabin was built by German immigrants, probably in the 1830s. Preservation Maryland notes that the city’s founder, Jonathan Hager, may have owned the property at one time. It later became part of an African American commercial and cultural hub.
[...] Turner tells the Sun that Jonathan Street housed a community of free and enslaved black people as early as the 1790s. The neighborhood was a stop on the Underground Railroad, says Nicholas Redding, executive director of Preservation Maryland, but historians are unsure which buildings were actually involved in the anti-slavery network. “It was a secret society,” Redding tells the Sun. “So people didn’t keep records.” (MORE - details)
Ancient, 120-foot-wide drawing of a cat found at Nazca Lines site in Peru
https://gizmodo.com/ancient-120-foot-wid...1845412117
INTRO: An oversized cat drawing has been discovered on a hill at the famous Nazca Lines site in Peru. The impressive artwork dates back some 2,000 years and measures over 120 feet across. The feline geoglyph was literally right under our noses all along.
The drawing is located on the slope of Mirador Natural Hill, which hosts the Natural Viewpoint (la Pampa de Nasca) at the top—an ideal place to observe the Nazca lines located in the region. Workers discovered the drawing by accident during upgrades to the lookout, according to a press release issued by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The site is in the Nazca Desert, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) south of Lima... (MORE)
- - - - -
The domestic cat wasn't introduced to the New World until Europeans arrived. So this was a pre-Columbian depiction of a wild cat. The Andean mountain cat, the jaguarundi, the kodkod, the pampas cat, etc are examples of small to medium-sized, feral cats native to the New World.