How did you come to be interested in Mayan languages? And how did you go about learning them?
How did you come to be interested in Mayan languages? And how did you go about learning them?
You get told it’s just pneumonia, but it keeps coming back for years.
Eventually someone figures it out and says you have mesothelioma. You travel the country for a few years, looking for treatment wherever you can. It costs everything you have.
Somewhere along the way, you have to put down $120,000 in cash for a surgery that gives you a few more years. But your last years are still mostly pain and exhaustion.
I wish my uncle hadn’t died the way he did.
Some kids have died at camps like this. The link is the story of a 16 year old who died in Arizona in 1994.
He had to hike for miles a day and sleep with no blanket or sleeping bag in temperatures below freezing. He had no food for 11 days out of 20, partly as a punishment for being sick.
He complained about being sick for weeks - stomach pain, falling down, hallucinations. On the day he died, it took him an hour to crawl 20 feet to the fire. He died from an infection from a perforated ulcer. The staff were standing around making fun of him when he collapsed for the last time.
The owners of the camp pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. One of the counselors was convicted of felony neglect.
Earlier this year, a 12 year old suffocated to death at a wilderness camp in North Carolina. His death was found to be a homicide.
How do you tell if an insect is sleeping? I guess they just stay still for a while?
Anyway, great picture of a pretty little critter!
Fascinating! So oxygen from the air (or wherever) + hydrogen from food = water.
Plants can make their own food, and birds can make their own water :)
That’s what I thought too, but bones are about 1/3 protein with a lot of fat and minerals. Kind of like tonkotsu broth.
They also store well. If the vultures find more than they need, they’ll keep the extra bones in a storage place really high up. The fat content drops a lot when the bones dry out, but the protein is still there.
The downside is bones don’t have a lot of water, so bearded vultures need a source of fresh water in their territory.
Bearded vultures are pretty neat too. They pretty much only eat bones. They can eat surprisingly big chunks whole. Or if the bone is too big, they drop it onto a rock to break it up.
And they’re very peaceful, because they know no one is going to fight them for the bones.
An Illinois sheriff’s deputy charged with murder in the death of a Black woman shot her in the face during a tense moment over a pot of water in her home, authorities said Thursday.
Prosecutors said Grayson “aggressively yelled” at Massey to put a pot down. They said she put her hands in the air and ducked for cover before she was shot in the face.
And then right after that is the part about the medical kit. So you kill someone who asked for help because they were holding a pot of water.
Maybe it depends on what you watch. I use Youtube for music (only things that I search for) and sometimes live streams of an owl nest or something like that.
If I stick to that, the recommendations are sort of OK. Usually stuff I watched before. Little to no clickbait or random topics.
I clicked on one reaction video to a song I listened to just to see what would happen. The recommendations turned into like 90% reaction videos, plus a bunch of topics I’ve never shown any interest in. U.S. politics, the death penalty in Japan, gaming, Brexit, some Christian hymns, and brand new videos on random topics.
This article is part of a pretty big investigation that’s worth reading. It talks about different kinds of “less lethal” force that can kill people. Tasers, punching, body slamming, restraining people face down.
And injecting them with sedatives. It happened to someone with schizophrenia who took meth and was wandering around at night. A guy whose mother made a mental help call when he was having a manic episode. And someone who was having a seizure.
Fascinating, especially how many different animals are carved on it. I wonder who this would have belonged to.