Gary Evans

Liberty Head A twenty dollar coin. Minted 1907 with Californian gold. Lady Liberty I believe. One of 1,451,786 coins minted that year. Plenty of scratches so not a real collector's item, but it's an ounce of gold.

A coin with a story.
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The Skeleton Panda Sea Squirt (Clavelina Ossipandae) is a translucent reef-dwelling creature whose rib-like structures and panda-like markings give it a spooky, animated look. Found in Southeast Asia, it harmlessly filters seawater and helps keep coral ecosystems healthy.

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Color photograph of Jennifer Doudna, the Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (2020 Chemistry Nobel, shared with Emmanuelle Charpentier for co-inventing CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology). She's a professor at UC Berkeley, a pioneer in molecular biology, and one of the most influential scientists alive today. The portrait captures her in a more recent, casual style: shoulder-length silver-gray hair, bright blue eyes, warm smile, wearing small pearl earrings and a textured maroon/reddish-brown zip-up jacket over a lighter top, set against a plain light gray background.

The first all-female team to share a Nobel Prize in science: biochemists Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier.

They won the 2020 #Nobel Prize in #Chemistry "for the development of a method for genome editing (CRISPR-Cas9)." Jennifer Doudna was born #OTD in 1964.

#WomenInSTEM

They could ignore the sex with trafficked young women, but when it came out he was sharing state secrets, they had no choice but to throw him under a bus.
Fact is, that the royals are all a bunch of self-serving parasites on the public purse. Always have been.
Abolish the monarchy now.

Duck Love Trubble has a new friend.

He's such a cute dog.
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This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

I have four new #cannabis cultivars ready for 2026: Aix Dream Tangerine (Tangerine Sorbet), Aix Dream Dos-si-Dos (Dos-si-Dos 33), Space Glue (Gorilla Glue/Chocoalte Diesel X Aix) & Aix Dream Blue (Blueberry x Gelato 33 x Aix Dream).
All are regular seeds.

As with many right-wing administrations worldwide, #cannabis is illegal in #Hungary, but #alcohol is promoted.
This makes no sense, which is what we've come to expect from Viktor Orban and co.

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Cannabis is good for you, especially when it comes to tackling alcohol addiction. Never mix cannabis with alcohol as this can lead to vomiting, especially when you consume cannabis after having drunk too much alcohol.
I stopped drinking completely after 40 years with the help of cannabis.

This us a brilliant bit of activism

Excruciating tropical disease can now be transmitted in most of Europe, study finds
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Europeans are dangerously reliant on US tech. Now is a good time to build our own | Johnny Ryan By trusting the US, we handed Trump a kill switch. Yet Europe’s digital sovereignty is an achievable goal, says civil liberties campaigner, Johnny Ryan

I've been saying this for years:
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That's about right.
My mad bastard dog, Trubble wakes me up. Not true really. He loves his beauty sleep too. Here he is barking.
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Aix Dream is very much like Zkittlez which is a wonderfully fruity & a fairly potent high. It's much like White Widow which was a component of the male plant it came from.
I was searching for a new cultivar that grows fast & easily as well as being genetically stable. I was lucky. No hermies!

The Guardian view on Palestine Action: banning the group was a step too far | Editorial Editorial: The high court was right to rule that ministers stretched terror laws in proscribing direct action. Protest should be policed by criminal law

The decision to proscribe Palestinian Action by Keir Starmer shows he is unfit to be Prime Minister of Britain.

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Dos Si Dos 33 IMO the best lighting for capturing the beauty of a cannabis plant; light from above as well as a flash, with a black background. The Canon M50 is great for this. Next time I'll use my 105mm macro len...

Do-Si-Dos crossed with Gelato 33 and you get this:
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Girl, 16, and, boy, 15, found guilty over killing of man pelted with rocks in Kent Pair cleared of murdering Alexander Cashford, who they believed was a paedophile, but convicted of manslaughter

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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I figured it was cool as it only eats insects apparently.

I woke one night to an army of huge red land crabs scuttling under our hut to get to the sea. There were millions of them. That was most freaky.

Space Aix Specially cultivated for growing in Aachen, Germany.

One of my best cultivars to date.
Originally named Space Aix, I renamed it Aix Dream.
Aix la Chapelle is where I live, hence the name.
Skittlez X White Lightning
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Wappa

Here's a Wappa bud.
Making new cultivars is easy. First you need regular seeds. Take the best male of the grow and plant it far away from your females. Collect the pollen and sprinkle some on one bud, marking it so you know which one is going to be full of seeds.
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Wappa

Here's a Wappa I grew a few years ago.
I always use organic soil but add some PK fertiliser as the plants start really flowering.
Worst grow ever was with Miracle grow, which turned my Cheese plants into hermies.
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Heteropoda venatoria en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteropoda_venatoria

Here's a spider which shared our hut in India.
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Far Side

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Hi George,

I would say his books on linguistics and language are excellent (laced with humour).

His books on writing style (not prescriptivist) and critical thinking are concise and readable.

Better Angels of our Nature is a good book on long-term trends, but spoiled by some of the C20 chapters…

I've often wondered how Steven Pinker's amazingly sloppy research and baseless claims* have for so long received a free pass. I wonder whether it could have something to do with a. his connections with the rich and powerful; b. his claims often aligning with what they want to hear.
*See next post.

Tangerine Sorbet From Paradise Seeds A very pretty phenotype with really purple leaves. I crossed this with Aix Dream to produce Aix Dream Tangerine.

I've been testing Tangerine Sorbet from Paradise Seeds, which is their successor to Wappa.
Just germinated some seeds I created from this cultivar. I named it Aix Dream Tangerine.
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Ephemeral Stream The groundwater level here is high so this stream is in full flow. It feeds the Johannesbach, which flows into and through Aachen.

A streaming video:
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