The Official Treehouse Articles Thread

[SeanKroll]

The 'Cliff Young Shuffle'. A different gait from an uninformed on running farmer.

Whatta story!

 

[cory]

You know that nasty ass White Nose fungus that is wiping out a lot of bats? Some new hope:

https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/a...white-nose-syndrome?google_editors_picks=true

 

[cory]

Dirt to be savior of humanity

https://www.wired.com/story/how-dir...aignmonitor outsidemagazine&utm_term=yes dirt

 

[MasterBlaster]

Now, that's down and dirty!

 

[cory]

A very cool article that will be enjoyed by hunters-Sasha Siemel and hunting jaguars by spear.

http://eccentriccowboy.blogspot.com/2017/10/joaquim-guato-tigrero.html

 

[pantheraba]

Good one....interesting picture of the spear he used.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Damn! Tiny picture!

We had a doctor here take a deer with a spear.

 

[cory]

2 bears and a cougar were badly burned in wildfires. Fish skin helped them heal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...skin-helped-heal-them/?utm_term=.c0e090a307ad

 

[pantheraba]

Excellent story...learned something about burn healing.

 

[MasterBlaster]

They've been doing that fish skin stuff for a while now.

 

[gf beranek]

That's pretty cool.

 

[cory]

Amazon's annual letter to shareholders. There's some good common sense, widely applicable stuff in there. Authored by a wizard.

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-reportsannual

 

[cory]

"This 250,000 year old tool was used to butcher a rhinoceros"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-butcher-a-rhinoceros/?utm_term=.e423a856ea44

Wow, those gangsters ate duck, rhino, wild cattle, horse, and camel. Geez I'd love me some rhino right about now.

 

[cory]

Free-diving, sea faring SE Asians have developed larger spleens which helps them dive longer and deeper

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43823885

 

[Tree09]

That's cool Cory, I want a larger spleen now lol

 

[cory]

You gots to earn it.

 

[cory]

Good stuff imo on Entropy, a 'big' word with a lot of relevance



https://jamesclear.com/entropy

 

[cory]

An allied article re what scientific concept ought to be more widely known>

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27023

 

[SeanKroll]

I think that making entropy a vocabulary word early in school would serve the world well.

 

[cory]

Does tree removal create entropy in the short term or increase it.

 

[SeanKroll]

Is disorder created or increased...asked the one hand clapping.

 

[cory]

From the perspective of the homeowner's system, aka their yard, it is decreased.

From nature's POV it is increased, imo.

 

[cory]

The Resource Curse of Appalachia, in a nutshell

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

 

[cory]

More on The Iceman's tools.

You folks into the Iceman?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/...-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

 

[gf beranek]

I like Otzi.