dantheclamman

American history is a violent history. I don't think anyone here is reading Trump as being anything like TR, but there are many lessons to be drawn by comparing the political environments of then and now. Here is an interesting non-wiki article discussing some of the comparative history

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Zotero is love. Zotero is life

Mendeley is great for anyone that loves worse software that's closed source and owned by an evil publishing corporation that mines their data

One of my favorite places :) Worked there for a couple years growing clams

Oklahoma man honored to finally be metabolized into various greenhouse gases

Yes, these are all good points that people don't seem to care about anymore. People seem to all want land boats these days

I learned to drive on a 1994 Volvo 740 wagon named Bessie! I was feeling nostalgic, looked at what wagons are on the market these days, sad how few offerings there are. I know crossovers are effectively just lifted wagons, but they don't feel the same to me

Hehe yes, he mentions the different channels, but there is definitely a Jekyll and Hyde aspect

Also check out his slightly more deranged second channel, NileBlue. I love his videos because they really show the whole scientific process, errors and all

Darwin did extensive work on barnacles, and wrote to his cousin WD Fox in 1852:

I am at work on the second vol. of the Cirripedia, of which creatures I am wonderfully tired: I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

But in 1855, he felt nostalgia for them, and wrote to Fox:

all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it, & just at present I wish I had the old Barnacles to work at & nothing new

Yes, I went to see if there was any recent info on them, couldn't find anything.