US Navy Blue Angels Flyover -- DFW Area -- Including A "360" Over Dallas -- May 5, 2020

Tomorrow:

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The Book Page

This week's book: The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology, Tim Birkhead, c. 2008.

It seemed a natural choice after Jane Kim's Wall of Birds yesterday.

Specs:

• a 368-page book on the ornithology work of John Ray and his "student" Francis Willughby.
• notes: twenty pages
• bibliography: sixteen pages
• glossary: five pages
• picture credits: four pages
• index: nineteen pages

More to follow.

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The Science Page

From a reader: this link and here.

Hundreds of towering hydrothermal chimneys discovered on seafloor off Washington state. An autonomous diving robot captured the vents (and events) in unprecedented detail.

From the article:

Research on the Endeavor vents began in the 1980s, and scientists had previously identified 47 chimneys in five major vent fields. But recent expeditions, using an autonomous underwater vehicle operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) revealed more than 500 chimneys in a zone about 9 miles long and 1 mile wide.

I finally understood these hydrothermal vents (chimneys) and their likely importance in the evolution of life in The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane, c. 2015.