Nebraska in Francis Ford Coppola’s THE RAIN PEOPLE (1969)

Milwaukee, 58 years ago today

“Demonstrators block a street near the Hillside Housing Project. An eight year old girl had recently been stuck and killed, and people were protesting the lack of crosswalks or streetlights.” —Milwaukee Public Library

Tomorrow is #NationalTrailsDay ! To celebrate, get outside this weekend and hike some iconic Wisconsin trails. One of these is the Ice Age Trail, which goes for more than 1,000 miles along the edge of the last continental glacier in WI.

🔗iceagetrail.org/explore/plan-h…

#FossilFriday The shiny teeth of the Mesozoic fish Lepidotes are known as toadstones in fossil folklore and were frequently used in jewellery for rings. This palate of teeth is from the Lower Cretaceous of England.

Really surprised to see so few loess researchers on that list of the world's best scientists

For context, the largest facility size tracked by the ag census is over 100,000 🐔. There are 33 of them in Iowa per the 2022 census, and their average size is 1.8 million chickens, so this is a really big operation.
By itself, it is 1.2% of all US laying hens.

Someone from the future will never understand this statement: 'There was a Red Owl at First Street and East Wash, and then it became Piggly Wiggly. Or Eagle?'

It seems entirely possible, and depressing, that the literal interpretation of those words in the First Amendment will have come and gone in my lifetime

Abandoned farmland (shaded blue to green by time since abandonment) around Hancock in central Wisconsin. Much more on the moraines to the east than on the outwash plain to the west.

Take a look at the map in this news story as well as the interactive atlas. As usual, I'm fascinated by the spatial patterns and their relationships to soils, landforms, geology, and groundwater availability

South Dakota, 2024.
6x7🎞️

DNR statement: dnr.wisconsin.gov/newsroom/relea…

Someone fishing on the creek first reported this to DNR, not the dairy itself

Just realized that 'best scientists = h index > 155' tweet came from the VP of Research at Johns Hopkins. Of course.

I don't want to quote tweet it, but I just read here that taking the bus when it's really crowded [which I do most weekdays when UW classes are in session] is one of the worst things a person can experience. What kind of life have you lived to think that?