Wednesday, March 20, 2013
BIGFOOT FORUMS: Based on a true lab report
An interesting look at the Melba Ketchum Bigfoot Genome report
http://bigfootforums.blogspot.com/2013/03/based-on-true-lab-report.html
CRYPTOLINK: Woolly mammoth rising: can we bring extinct animals back to life?
A word about cryptolinks: we are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
Ben Novak wants to bring back the passenger pigeon. The last living specimen died in 1914, but they ran amok through 19th century America, leaving hundreds of cadavers and plenty of DNA to pull from. Novak already has a pretty good roadmap for how it should look, thanks to the nearly identical rock pigeon genome, published in January. From there, he'll introduce the new chromosomes into the sex cells of an egg-bound rock pigeon, and hopefully, a generation later, see a passenger pigeon grow up inside a rock pigeon egg. And just like that, the most famous extinction of the 20th century is undone. Like a magic trick, Novak will pull an extinct bird out of his sleeve.
FORTEAN BIRD NEWS FROM THE WATCHER OF THE SKIES (C...
In an article for the first edition of Cryptozoology Bernard Heuvelmans wrote that cryptozoology is the study of 'unexpected animals' and following on from that perfectly reasonable assertion, it seems to us that whereas the study of out of place birds may not have the glamour of the hunt for bigfoot or lake monsters, it is still a perfectly valid area for the Fortean zoologist to be interested in. So after about six months of regular postings on the main bloggo Corinna has taken the plunge and started a 'Watcher of the Skies' blog of her own as part of the CFZ Bloggo Network.
- RSPB Scotland farmland flood plan a bonus for bird...
- Banned diclofenac still kills critically endangere...
- Man admits to illegally trading rare bird eggs aft...
- RSPB Objects to proposed Killington Lake 433ft gia...
MORE FROM THE WILDLIFE GARDEN BALCONY
In
my last post I was really pleased to report that my balcony birdcam had finally captured some images of a visiting bird
(a solitary great tit) following a 'drought' of photos during the previous eight months. Well, it seems that birds visiting my balcony are a little like buses: you wait around for one for ages and then two turn up at once. These two great tits have been daily visitors to my balcony bird feeder
table since the beginning of March, often visiting twice a day, to feed on the
peanuts, fat ball and mealworms I'd put out for them.
Hopefully,
this pair might well take up residence in the bird
box I've attached to the outside my balcony.
It
just goes to show that If you've got a tiny balcony its still entirely possible
to attract birds to it as long as you put out the right food for them and
remember to regularly replenish it and of course dispose of any remaining
food once it starts to go off.
For
great advice and tips on attracting birds to your outdoor space, have a look at
this RSPB page
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DALE DRINNON: Loch Ness Book Review/Cedar & Willow
New at the Frontiers of Zoology:
New at Cedar and Willow:
http://cedar-and-willow.blogspot.com/2013/03/stella-chickie-in-training.html (and
the Zombie Apocalypse)
Best Wishes, Dale D.
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THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS HIDING ROUND THE CORNER
It is still cold outside but apart from
that we are having lovely spring weather. The snowdrops outside my office window
are out surprisingly late. They are usually gone by now and there are
surprisingly few daffodils to replace them. Next year I am going to start
recording the dates to see if I can find out why. I have just discovered that my
old boss Steve Harley put out an album in 2010 that I never heard. There are a
few flashes of the old brilliance on there so I shall probably be plugging it
unmercifully. I hope that the 2013 CFZ Yearbook will be out this week, which is
good news. I shall also be announcing some other jolly things very
soon....
* The Gonzo Daily is a two-way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work or even just say hello please, write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow....
* The Gonzo Daily is, as the name implies , a daily online magazine mostly about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
Today's Gonzo Track of the Day is from Robert
Calvert
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-robot-by-robert.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-gonzo-track-of-day-robot-by-robert.html
Once again we repair to Austin for our daily
audience with Thom the World Poet
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_20.html
An insightful Cris Roversi review. I really must
catch up with him for a chat. His new album is extraordinarily good
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/insightful-cris-roversi-review.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/insightful-cris-roversi-review.html
A video interview with Paul Kantner
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/bam-tv-interviews-jefferson-starship.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/bam-tv-interviews-jefferson-starship.html
Chris Squire from Yes, talks
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-chat-with-legendary-chris-squire.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-chat-with-legendary-chris-squire.html
News on the Hawkwind tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-hawkwind-set-to-rev-up-silver.html
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/03/link-hawkwind-set-to-rev-up-silver.html
* The Gonzo Daily is a two-way process. If you have any news or want to write for us, please contact me at jon@eclipse.co.uk. If you are an artist and want to showcase your work or even just say hello please, write to me at gonzo@cfz.org.uk. Please copy, paste and spread the word about this magazine as widely as possible. We need people to read us in order to grow and as soon as it is viable we shall be invading more traditional magaziney areas. Join in the fun, spread the word, and maybe if we all chant loud enough we CAN stop it raining. See you tomorrow....
* The Gonzo Daily is, as the name implies , a daily online magazine mostly about artists connected to the Gonzo Multimedia group of companies. But it also has other stuff as and when the editor feels like it. The same team also do a weekly newsletter called - imaginatively - The Gonzo Weekly. Find out about it at this link: http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-gonzo-news-wots-fit-to-print.html
* We should probably mention here that some of our posts are links
to things we have found on the internet that we think are of interest. We are
not responsible for spelling or factual errors in other people's websites.
Honest guv!
* Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures (and several others),is an old hippy of 53 who, together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not-very-small orange kitten (who isn't), puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cats?
* Jon Downes, the editor of all these ventures (and several others),is an old hippy of 53 who, together with his orange cat (who is currently on sick leave in Staffordshire) and a not-very-small orange kitten (who isn't), puts it all together from a converted potato shed in a tumbledown cottage deep in rural Devon, which he shares with various fish. He is ably assisted by his lovely wife Corinna, his bulldog/boxer Prudence, his elderly mother-in-law, and a motley collection of social malcontents. Plus... did we mention the orange cats?
OLL LEWIS: Yesterday's News Today
On this
day in 1963 the actor David Thewlis was born. He played the werewolf
Professor Lupin (well, maybe it wasn't that much of a spoiler with an obvious
name like 'Lupin') in the Harry Potter films. He was also in Dragonheart and the not bad but pointless 2006 remake of The Omen
Professor Lupin teaching Harry Potter how to fight
dementors:
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