Follow Friday 7-12-24: Due South

Today's theme is Due South, a Canadian crime show.

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Fireworks

I found this fun video:

TESTING INSANELY STRANGE FIREWORKS 2024

Birdfeeding

Today is sunny, steamy, and hot.

I fed the birds.  I've seen several house finches.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I trimmed brush to clear the north path to the ritual meadow.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I did some trimming around the forest garden.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I did more trimming around the forest garden and the purple-and-white garden.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I did more trimming around the prairie garden.

The first of the cup plants is blooming.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I did some work around the patio.

EDIT 7/12/24 -- I did more trimming around the purple-and-white garden.

Fireflies are coming out.  Cicadas are singing.

I saw a bat flying circles around the ritual meadow.  :D

As it is now dark, I am done for the night.

Mammoths

First ever 3D reconstruction of 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth chromosomes thanks to serendipitously freeze-dried skin

An international research team has assembled the genome and 3D chromosomal structures of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth -- the first time such a feat has been achieved for any ancient DNA sample. The fossilized chromosomes, which are around a million times longer than most ancient DNA fragments, provide insight into how the mammoth's genome was organized within its living cells and which genes were active within the skin tissue from which the DNA was extracted. This unprecedented level of structural detail was retained because the mammoth underwent freeze-drying shortly after it died, which meant that its DNA was preserved in a glass-like state.

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Unsold Poems for the July 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl

The following poems from the July 2, 2024 Poetry Fishbowl are currently available. Poems may be sponsored via PayPal -- there's a permanent donation button on my Dreamwidth profile page -- or you can write to me and discuss other methods. There are still verses left in the linkback poems "Qui Gatta Ci Cova," "Let the Children Lead Us," "Pumpkin Spice Prosperity," "Delight in Another," "A Sense of Weather Changes," "Ouroboros Insects," "The Loving Embrace of Night," "Generations of Cooks Past," "Homefree and Clear, " "One Bite at a Time," "Stars and Diamonds," "Mishpocha," "Changing Your Nature," and "Besa."

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