Gotta Earn that Love

Gotta Earn that Love

Shark Bites

"Alone in New York people are bitten 10 times more each year by other people than worldwide by sharks."

-- Facts on Shark Accidents, by the Shark Foundation

Yeah, but how many people have lost a limb or their life because of a person's bite? There is more than a public-relations problem here. Besides, New York is a rather feral place.

Shark Bites

"Alone in New York people are bitten 10 times more each year by other people than worldwide by sharks."

-- Facts on Shark Accidents, by the Shark Foundation

Yeah, but how many people have lost a limb or their life because of a person's bite? There is more than a public-relations problem here. Besides, New York is a rather feral place.

Lonesome George

Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one species poorer.

The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away on Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement.

Estimated to be more than 100-years-old, the creature's cause of death remains unclear and a necropsy is planned.

Lonesome George's longtime caretaker, Fausto Llerena, found the tortoise's remains stretched out in the "direction of his watering hole" on Santa Cruz Island, the statement said.

Lonesome George was discovered on Ecuador's Pinta Island in 1972 at a time when tortoises of his type were already believed to be extinct. Since then, the animal had been part of the park service's tortoise program.

Repeated efforts to breed Lonesome George failed.

"Later two females from the Espanola tortoise population [the species most closely related to Pinta tortoises genetically] were with George until the end," the park service said.

-- News/LJ

Lonesome George

Lonesome George has died, leaving the world one species poorer.

The only remaining Pinta Island tortoise and celebrated conservation icon passed away on Sunday, the Galapagos National Park Service said in a statement.

Estimated to be more than 100-years-old, the creature's cause of death remains unclear and a necropsy is planned.

Lonesome George's longtime caretaker, Fausto Llerena, found the tortoise's remains stretched out in the "direction of his watering hole" on Santa Cruz Island, the statement said.

Lonesome George was discovered on Ecuador's Pinta Island in 1972 at a time when tortoises of his type were already believed to be extinct. Since then, the animal had been part of the park service's tortoise program.

Repeated efforts to breed Lonesome George failed.

"Later two females from the Espanola tortoise population [the species most closely related to Pinta tortoises genetically] were with George until the end," the park service said.

-- News/LJ

Sylvia

“The reason that I haven’t been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven’t had one decent coherent thought to put down. My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper, bits of hair, and rotting apple cores.”

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950-53

She is struggling a little. Those young college girl blues. She is feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the other exciting people she is meeting, and she does not make friends easily. We will take a few bites from this entry, which we will call “Rotting Apple Cores”.

Sylvia

“The reason that I haven’t been writing in this book for so long is partly that I haven’t had one decent coherent thought to put down. My mind is, to use a disgustingly obvious simile, like a wastebasket full of waste paper, bits of hair, and rotting apple cores.”

-- Sylvia Plath, The Journals 1950-53

She is struggling a little. Those young college girl blues. She is feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the other exciting people she is meeting, and she does not make friends easily. We will take a few bites from this entry, which we will call “Rotting Apple Cores”.