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Plucked from the Web August 2019

Interesting stuff I have come across on the wide expanses of the internets in August – quite a diverse selection.

The Philippines, like so many other islands, are suffering from invasive species, on land. A prime example of an invasive

Last week a floral blenny, Petroscirtes mitratus decided that my dive computer is a great hide-out, preferable to the featureless

Ich lebe schon seit vielen Jahren im „Ausland“, praktisch mein ganzes Erwachsenenleben lang. Ich mag Österreich sehr gern, aber ich

The internet can be a place of great time wasting and pointless procrastination. But there is also a lot of

This week marks the 50th anniversary of one of humanity‘s greatest achievements, the moon landing. A few hundred thousand years

I don’t like hyperbole. I’m a cool-aide tea-teetotaler. I like to think that my bullshit detector works well. I’m not

Modern science is an absolutely amazing endeavor, which has produced insights into the smallest (atoms), the most gigantic (galaxies) and

These are some of the interesting things I have been reading online: Why falsificationism is false It is of great

I have been writing this blog since late 2012, for 6 1/2 years, on a variety of topics ranging from