Steven L Clark

More than 200,000 deaths a year can be attributed to freshwater snails. The snails are hosts to deadly parasites, in particular parasitic flatworms known as flukes.

For reference, lions kill about 250 humans per year...which still feels like a lot?

How Archaeologists Try To Smell, Hear, And Taste The Past In “Dinner With King Tut,” Sam Kean shows how experimental archaeology can recreate the stinky, slimy, and tasty parts of ancient history.

The stinky. The slimy. The... tasty? 🦠🍴 Science writer and author Sam Kean shares experimental archeologists' quest to recreate the elements of lost civilizations—and launch some catapults, too.

Schneeeule and the Revival of Weissbier in Berlin — Beervana Berlin’s wonderful all-Berliner weisse brewery announced it was closing a few weeks ago (full text included in this post), which gives me an opportunity to repost my article from five years ago about ...

Berlin’s wonderful all-Berliner weisse brewery announced it was closing a few weeks ago (full text included in this post), which gives me an opportunity to repost my article from five years ago about what a wonderful project it was.

we're just starting to get a few here... but the choice is thin on the ground and nowhere near the fruit choice you guys have after all of your cider history

I listen to the Cider Voice podcast with absolute thirst and envy at the number of varieties available over there, in France, Spain :)

we just have nothing like the cider available to you in Britain, I'm envious... while we used to be a major apple producer right up through to the middle-to-late 20th Century unfortunately all of our cider apples (bar 1 guy I know of who blends juice) have been pulled for commercial store varieties.

Vale old Cloth Ears

He murdered a bird INSIDE his pet park and brought it into the sun room... 11 years old and his second kill, after that fucking rat he dispatched.

State of the kegerator

Our boy cat found a bird in the pet park and dispatched it, brought it inside, and basked in the glory of it's violent demise. Don't tell me YOUR CAT goes out into the wild every day/night and doesn't harm a fly. These creatures are killing machines. Loveable cunts. But deadly.

Last Summer we saw out of our kitchen window a FAMILY of rats enjoying our compost, the parent ran to explain to their offspring not to take trap baits. It's a constant battle.

That's the rat we have most around here. One once came to live inside in my unused photography cupboard, lived in three drawers, and my partners stocking drawer in the bedroom. Stole the cats food and hoarded it... eventually died ambling around like it lived here. Too smart for traps, the bastards.

My mother grew up on King Island (between mainland Australia and Tasmania in Bass Strait) and they used to call her a wog when she was a child because of her last name, Tronerud (the family farm in Norway - originally Jurgenson, from memory). I wouldn't be surprised if Norway Rat wasn't derogatory.

My grandfather was a Norwegian so I pay attention - the US had laws against Chinese & Norwegian workers circa late 1800s - in Tasmania, of our five rats, we have the brown rat (aka the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat). Obviously an insult...

is it beer o'clock yet?

met my partner on Twitter and happily together for 12 years and going strong

"alcohol gives about 7 calories per gram, sugar only 4" - The Wine Lab podcast

Dom Perignon - The Monk Who Didn’t Invent Champagne - The Wine Lab Everyone knows the story of Dom Pérignon — the monk who invented Champagne and declared he was “tasting the stars.” But history tells a very different tale. In this episode of The Wine Lab, we uncover...

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Wine with Spirit: The World of Fortified Wines - The Wine Lab What do Port, Sherry, Madeira, Marsala, and Vermouth all have in common? They’re wines with an extra ingredient — spirit. In this episode of The Wine Lab, Dr. Andreea Botezatu explores how fortificati...

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Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

business as usual fears disruption... I saw this in the professors when I was doing an MBA... they all built their careers on the idea of unlimited resources, exponential infinite growth... global warming made them explode out of proportion with rage despite the evidence... the greens threaten that.

Pairings Gueuze and Wild Ales with Craft Chocolate — Bean to Barstool How do Belgian Gueuzes and Wild Ales pair with craft chocolate? Bean to Barstool host David Nilsen walks through the various expressions of wild fermentations in beer and explains how to pair these es...

New blog post: How to pair Gueuze & wild ales w/craft chocolate. These beers occupy a small niche in the beer ecosystem, but they can pair beautifully w/craft chocolate. Pairing w/these beers can be challenging, but they offer some truly elegant pairings.
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thank fuck it's Friday... beer o'clock is there for the people

He should invent his own... everything else he does in entirely in his imaganation

the bastards

we get the occasional rat in the house and sometimes a few on the property and they are way too smart to get caught in the traps... traps only cull the occasional dumb one because they teach each other :(

Kākāpō parrot... this is the bird Paul would be if he was a bird and not a cat (photo filched from FB)... 4kg and the largest of the parrots

Another Spring day of beating rain and damaging winds expected... I know the farmers love this weather for the grass and crops, but I prefer the drought Springs where the sun shines every day and I can get the gardening done.