From a population of about 1300 individuals, it took 900,000 years to grow to todays 8 billion, theoretically.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/genetics-suggest-our-human-ancestors-very-nearly-went-extinct-900000-years-ago-180982830/

You put your right hand out… Give a firm hand-shake

I bought two individual russet potatoes, came to about $5.50. In the past Ive always bought bags of potatoes, but they go bad sometimes before they get eaten, so Ive just been buying individual potatoes lately.

I was going to say pummeled with produce but given the price of tomatos and eggs these days, it didnt seem appropriate. Maybe some used bricks. Leave them exposed for a while, the tar can wait until theyre tenderized.

Pilloried and pummeled.

Not that I’ve had this, but going through an old cookbook of my mom’s, I came across a recipe for Mock Turtle soup, which called for calf brains.

Harvesting Black Holes to power a civilization

https://astrobites.org/2021/09/15/black-hole-dyson-sphere/

Before video games and cable TV, I read a lot of books. I can remember reading Call of the Wild and White Fang in elementary school, “childrens” classics like Tom Sawyer, Robinson Crusoe, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 20000 Leagues. Encyclopaedia Brown was a favourite childrens series of mine.

Salome’s Last Dance, one of my favorite’s in the weird category. I saw it on TV a long time ago.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/70842-salome-s-last-dance

I haven’t used Google search since 2008, when I starting using Linux and Duckduckgo was the default search engine for Firefox.

There’s a little yellow man in his head