there are decision trees around that use which countries show up and what they’re called as a way to date the globes.
our globe when I was growing up had ridges on the major mountain ranges and those got worn down in spots.
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Yes!!! I saw a guy who can determine the age range of a globe like super fast. It was mind blowing. He buys one and is like “between March and November of 1982” 
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I run/walk to fundraiser every year I can. There is a nice monument to him where he stopped running outside Thunder Bay. I made sure to stop by it every time I drove past it.
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Same, my aunt used to live in Thunder Bay (a cousin still does) and we always used to stop
The kids do the Terry Fox run for school annually. They are usually asked to write on a paper running shoe who they are running for.
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They made a movie about him in 1983. I used to watch it a lot as a kid.
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I deeply hate earwigs and was unhappy to see them all over my daisies but this is kinda cool:
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Night shift pollinators!! I didn’t know!!
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There are lots of nighttime pollinators. And the plants release their scents more strongly at night too. I think the blooms also tend to be white (easier to find)
Also, any blooms who have flies as pollinators typically have a carrion scent.
All this courtesy of my “Plant-Animal Interactions” class in university.
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Fascinating! I would have loved that class.
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Since it’s one of the few classes I remember much about (I think I remember) - I loved it too! Really fascinating to hear about various ways plants attract others (nectaries attract ants to help defend the plant), or defend themselves (trichome piercing through a caterpillar). It’s a beautiful and dangerous world out there!
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That class sounds AMAZING.
Also I’m missing brugmansia now.
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brugmansia!
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My coop student cannot write cursive but can read it.
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This is also true for all three of my children
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Nearing 50, I can write cursive, but almost never do. I realized back in high school that cursive was impractical for anything other than your signature. I wrote cursive as taught, but even back then people couldn’t read it correctly all the time. I found it much more practical to print everything, especially since official forms always required one to fill them out in block letters.
When I got into engineering, I started writing in all caps. Nowadays that’s how most of my writing goes.
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This is my husband now (although he learned to write cursive, but never well- he’s a leftie so that doesn’t help- but he can still read it)
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