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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has had mercury poisoning from eating fish and a brain worm. MERCURY. POISONING. You know, the type of damage that he has falsely and conspiratorially claimed for years comes from vaccines www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/u...
This is what Canaan Valley in Tucker County, WV looked like in 1932. Now it's full of state parks and wildlife reserves, and a brewery in Davis called "Stumptown" because that used to be the town's nickname
I know there's a lot of competition, but is there a worse failson (or failnephew) than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.?
I somehow got on his mailing list and he could not be barking up a wronger tree
Hello to a new smol fren in my backyard pond. Reminds me of some of the best advice my dad ever gave me: That snake (or spider/toad/caterpillar/etc.) is more scared of you than you are of it.
What are some of your favorite science-related travel destinations?
I just visited the Burgess Shale and HIGHLY recommend. It's a tough hike, but you get to see hard- & soft-bodied creatures from the Cambrian explosion 500+ million years ago
Here's a fossil of a 500-million-year-old worm. One of the cool things about the Burgess Shale fossils is that they capture behavior. This is a worm with a digestive tract full of crunched-up shells -- evidence of predatory behavior.
