Friday, June 3, 2016
Elephant in Rhodesia wounded by poachers, seeks help at safari lodge
And gets help!
Ben, a bull elephant, approached the Bumi Hills Safari Lodge and the manager quickly noticed that it had a limp and appeared to be severely injured. In photographs, the elephant is looking inside and it appears that he is indeed seeking assistance.
Unfortunately there was no in-house veterinarian at the lodge because the vet had gone for the weekend.
But one kind vet offered to fly 200 miles from Harare to provide medical assistance to the elephant and arrived within six hours. In that time, Ben apparently waited patiently, drinking water and grazing.
Here's Ben looking for a vet. Really, one doesn't want to anthropomorphize, but it appears that is exactly what he was doing. Why, when in pain, does the old boy decide to go directly to where he knows people are? Odd how seemingly wild animals know where aid is likely to be found.
Ben survived the attempts on his life after the vet treated him and disinfected his
wounds. Ben now wears a tracking device to ensure his improvement can be monitored as he recovers on the safari lodge's property. Wouldn't surprise me if the staff is now feeding him carrots or something.
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Looks like the Republicans finally got the key to Barky's teleprompter
That, or he just finished off a couple of fatties.
Should have sold some of that stock while she had the chance.
It was just a matter of time: shortly after none other than "youngest ever billionaire" Elizabeth Holmes herself admitted that the technology of her "innovative" company Theranos had been effectively a fraud, when several weeks ago the company voided and restated years of test results, the valuation of the company has finally been adjusted to reflect the underlying value of the company. And Holmes' own net worth.
As Forbes reports today, after Elizabeth Holmes topped the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion, today, the magazine lowered its estimate of her net worth to nothing.
As Forbes reports today, after Elizabeth Holmes topped the Forbes list of America’s Richest Self-Made Women with a net worth of $4.5 billion, today, the magazine lowered its estimate of her net worth to nothing.
She's a sweetie, but a fraudulent and now broke sweetie. The best hucksters always come across very well.
King Tut's personal dagger made from a meteorite.
When Howard Carter opened the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamun and unwrapped the mummy in 1925, three years after his discovery of the tomb, he found 107 objects placed in the linen bandages. One of them was an iron dagger with a gold handle elaborately decorated with cloisonné enamel, gold granulation in geometric patterns and a crystal pommel. Its sheath was made of gold with a lily motif engraved on one side and feathers terminating in a jackal head at the peak of the sheath on the other side. It was found on his right thigh.
Iron is very rare in Egyptian tombs. Bronze was the dominant metal in funerary artifacts until the Assyrian Occupation (656-639 B.C.), 600 years after iron production became widespread elsewhere around the Mediterranean. When iron has been found in a funerary context, archaeologists have suspected it was of extra-terrestrial origin. Since it falls from the sky, it would have been seen as a direct gift from the gods.
Now a new study by an international team of researchers has used state-of-the-art XRF technology to determine whether the iron in King Tutankhamun’s dagger is of meteoric origin. Their analysis found that the dagger’s blade is 11 wt% nickel, which can only be meteoritic iron. The amount of cobalt, .6 wt%, is also consistent with the ratio of nickel to cobalt found in iron meteorites.
So, the metal in the king's dagger fell down to him from the sky. Couldn't be any better royal symbolism there.
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