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85% herding dog Not who you think you're blocking "There is a crack in everything, and that's how the light gets in." -Leonard Cohen

After 18 hours of stage 2 labor and a trip to the e-vet for oxytocin and monitoring, Loaf had 8 beautiful puppies yesterday. She is doing an excellent job as a first time mom and all babies have gained weight on their day-old weigh in.

Loaf (brown dog) with 8 newborn puppies nursing Loaf (brown dog) with 8 newborn puppies nursing Loaf (brown dog) with 8 newborn puppies scattered around herLoaf (brown dog) with a newborn pup cuddled against her face

I did my doctorate on fungi and yeah they are spooky mysterious eldritch creatures. There's an entire genus of them called "shit, I don't know what that is, here's a placeholder". Despite first being identified in 1800s, Stachybotrys chartarum has been reclassified 11 different times.

The Province of Massachusetts Bay built Boston Light in 1716 and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts rebuilt it in 1776, at our own expense. If the federal government doesn't want it anymore, the Commonwealth shouldn't have to bid on our own asset. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/03/b...

A new steward for Boston’s oldest lighthouse? - The Boston Globe

Federal government puts Boston's Harbor's oldest lighthouse complex up for sale to nonprofits.

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Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

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This is a nice fat Monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf. It will grow and turn into a butterfly in late August and September. It will belong to the special "super generation." These adult butterflies fly thousands of miles south to Mexico to spend the winter!

Monarch caterpillar in August on a Milkweed leaf. It is one of the migration genertion which will fly to mexico.

On Aug. 3, 1958, the world’s first nuclear submarine—the USS Nautilus—became the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographic North Pole. This clock from the Nautilus’s wardroom is at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and was displayed in my office when I was the Director there.

This color photo shows a small wooden desk clock with two brass plates affixed to the front.This color photo shows a close-up of a brass plate affixed to a small wooden desk clock. It reads “This clock was mounted in the wardroom of NAUTILUS on her history making cruise under the North Pole, 22 July-5 August 1958.”