All from a couple of 2020 Harper’s Findings and Indeces:<\/p>\n
Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n Migrating steppe eagles fitted with cellular trackers by Russian zoologists incurred massive international roaming charges.<\/em><\/p>\n Female fish will mate outside their species if a male is attractive enough or if the female can’t see clearly.<\/em><\/p>\n Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? (A question for women only.)<\/p>\n A nineteen-year-old Margarita Island capuchin monkey in a Chinese zoo with a humanlike face has remained unable to find a mate, which zookeepers attribute not to his appearance but to his bad personality.<\/em><\/p>\n A Tennessee electric eel was switching the lights of a Christmas tree on and off.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking of which, remind me some day to tell you about a moose in Banff who got a high from mild electric shocks (?) and consequently repeatedly ripped strings of Xmas lights off people’s houses and, trailing the lights, would run down Banff’s main street.<\/p>\n Why we need a new voting rights act* and why I’m endlessly furious at John Roberts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Minimum number of polling places that states in the South have closed since 2012: 1,327.<\/em><\/p>\n Why I’m beyond furious at Mitch McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n Average effective tax rate, as a percentage of income, paid by the richest 400 households in the United States in 2018: 23.<\/em><\/p>\n Mysterious miscellany<\/strong><\/p>\n The Wizard Rock, a boulder that had vanished from the Prescott National Forest, reappeared.<\/em><\/p>\n Bathroom break?<\/p>\n *We have one, passed by the House but ignored by the aforementionedly hateful Mitch McConnell.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All from a couple of 2020 Harper’s Findings and Indeces: Animals Migrating steppe eagles fitted with cellular trackers by Russian zoologists incurred massive international roaming charges. Female fish will mate outside their species if a male is attractive enough or … Continue reading