A Busy Week

Please don't patronize thieves.

Yes, that is a Tardis on my shirt. And all three cats make it into the background.

The history of cotton clothing has followed an interesting path, including a period of a few decades in the United States when cotton represented ingenuity, resilience, and patriotism itself.

There is a surprising, and little known, history connecting goats and the US Navy. But, then again, goats themselves have a surprising history.

A witness said, on August 8, 1975: it “sounded like the sky was collapsing and the earth was cracking.” What came next was the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history.