I have just three astonishing things from Kent Hendricks list of 52 things he learned this year, but there are bunch more if you want to read
- Pheasant Island is an uninhabited island in the Bidasoa River between France and Spain. It is called a “condominium”, which means, “in international law is a political territory (state or border area) in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium”. The island is a French island from August 1 through January 31 and Spain the rest of the year.
- There 44% of people have one joint in their pinkie toe and 55% have two joints.
- There are 80,000 recorded UFO sightings since 1906 and 4/5’s of those sightings are in the United States.
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This was really good. This is the story about wolves in eastern Washington. The ranchers there don’t like them because they kill cattle and this guy, Daniel Curry, is what’s called a Range Rider who tries non-lethal means of mitigating wolves from looking at cows as food. This was produced by Patagonia and you’re probably thinking that it’s not going to show both sides and it definitely does, but it really focuses on what Curry is trying to do, his love of his horses and dogs and wolves and how he’s trying to do something different rather than exterminate the wolves.
Now normally, I’m thinking that well, if the wolves are on private property, let’s talk about solutions, but these ranchers are being permitted to graze cows in the summer on public lands and these cows are also starting to cause harmful effects to the bull trout ecosystem and all of the other animals that are in that habitat with the cows being the one thing that’s not natural. I think that adds a different aspect to this that doesn’t make this an easier decision, but given that they are on public land, it doesn’t seem right that the wolves can or should be exterminated. They are what’s natural to the space there, the cows are the non-natural intruders, right?
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I’ve gone over this numerous times, but Tommy Rivs Puzey was a world-class athlete who had an iFit on NordicTrack treadmills where he’d take you places running and teach you how to run, how to get better. He taught me about running and I haven’t stopped. He had cancer 3 years ago and he’s been battling back, running the New York City Marathon three times. Being an anchor of hope in what seems like a world full of disaster.






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