Tootfinder

Way back in the late 1980's my cat once brought one of these to our front door. (We live in Santa Cruz county along an ever-running creek - rather the natural habitat for garter snakes.)
(Our office was located next to a site that had hundreds if not thousands of common garter snakes - enough that a state herpetologist lept back upon encountering a mass-of-snakes scene right out of an Indiana Jones movie.)

Stunning California snake endangered since the 1960s prepares to make a comeback
Listed as endangered since 1967, San Francisco garter snakes are found only on the Peninsula and in northern Santa Cruz County.

Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science https://www.futura-sciences.com/en/blindness-may-no-longer-be-inevitable-this-discovery-changes-the-game_25773/ 
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Blindness may no longer be irreversible. A discovery in South Korea just changed the science - Futura-Sciences
More than 300 million people worldwide live with retinal diseases that medicine cannot yet reverse. Conditions like retinitis pigmentosa and macular degeneration destroy the photoreceptor cells that make sight possible, and once those cells die, they don’t come back, at least not in mammals. The reason puzzled researchers for decades,...

St. Patrick was a gentleman
who through strategy and stealth
drove all the snakes from Ireland.
Here's a toasting to his health --
but not too many toastings
lest you lose yourself and then
forget the good St. Patrick
and see all those snakes again.

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Acabei de ver um tweet do Filipe Figueiredo, aquele do Xadrez Verbal, em que ele escreveu: "Sem sensacionalismo, mas a situação é preocupante" falando do possível ataque dos EUA ao Irã. Considerando que ele entende muito de RI e do quanto ele é sempre muito cuidadoso com as palavras (e nada sensacionalista), este "preocupante" de fato me deixou muito preocupado.

San Jose ICE Protest today (1/24/2026) at 1700 Alum Rock Ave.
STOP the KILLER ICE!!!
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Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announ…

Call for Papers - Medicine, sciences and 'popularization of knowledge' – EABS Annual Conference 2026 (KU Leuven, Belgium, 20–23 July 2026); submissions due 31 January 2026
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