bleedingcool: Jamie McKelvie's One For Sorrow Launches in Dstlry's May 2024 Solicits
The lack of a term for the black-billed magpie may be because the bird was not in Southwest Alaska until recently. The long-tailed relative of ravens and jays seems to be extending its range throughout Alaska.
The experts' horror of ultraviolet light isn't really new. For years they've been warning sunlovers like me that sunshine ages skin--young tanned hides quickly become old leathery ones, so to speak. And sunburn is as damaging as any other kind of burn. But now the medical warnings have a new urgency.
Rigid insulations increasingly are coming into use in the North. Though a more expensive form of insulation than fiberglass batts or blown fiberglass or cellulose, the rigid insulations have certain advantages that sometimes make them worth the higher cost. One popular type is urethane that can be purchased in rigid sheets or foamed in place on the job. Also called polyurethane or isocyanate ...
Probably the best possible way to clear a forested area for agricultural use is in-place burning of whatever vegetation exists. Unfortunately, this is not easy to do because forest fires do not tend to cease burning precisely where one wants a field to end. There is a substantial dollar value to the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium and magnesium that burning can release from the ...
People on MSN: Meet Magpie, the rescue dog saving thousands of baby sea turtles by using her nose (exclusive)
Meet Magpie, the rescue dog saving thousands of baby sea turtles by using her nose (exclusive)