Whisky is not the vice John DeLorean is usually associated with. Cutty Sark ad from 1981, the first year the DeLorean sports car was sold. In 1982, John DeLorean was arrested for (and later acquitted of) drug trafficking. The DeLorean Motor Company declared bankruptcy the same year. Cutty Sark Scotch whisky was created in 1923 and is still in business.
Month: July 2021
Study Cats in Italy; Ph.D. Required
Curious about cats? Completed your Ph.D? Competent in either aDNA or stable isotope analysis? Two postdoctoral positions are available at the Centre of Molecular Anthropology, University of Rome Tor Vergata to:
unravel how the increasing bond with humans across a wide spectrum of socio-cultural contexts, from prehistoric farming communities to the ancient Egyptian and Medieval societies, shaped the cat genome and nutritional behaviour while adapting to anthropized ecosystems.
The two-year jobs pay about €2,500 a month. More details at:
FELIX – Palegenomics and Population Genomics of Ancient Cats
FELIX – Stable isotope analysis for the study of cat-human interactions in the past
Featured image: V. Sauvaget, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
A Fossil Passenger Pigeon From Georgia
From the Smithsonian Institution, here’s a passenger pigeon bone, specifically a left humerus (wing). the Smithsonian only identifies it as being from Bartow County, Georgia, but given the collector is attributed to “Lipps et al,” it is likely from Ladd’s Quarry. In the 1960s, Shorter College biology professor Emma Lewis Lipps excavated at this site and sent many fossils to the Smithsonian.
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“Once you go somewhere you’ve never been, you are being an explorer.”
Alastair Humphreys
Time Flashback: November 1976
Following Jimmy Carter’s victory in the 1976 presidential election, Time magazine looked towards what a Carter presidency would be, and advertisers began looking towards the Christmas season.
All images from Time Magazine, November 22, 1976
Not Looking Good for the Health and Ag Buildings
Summer Birds
