99th Tuesday

We’re celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in a big way, with one of the largest known deer: the Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus)! It was originally discovered in bog deposits in Ireland. This megafauna could weigh up to 1,500 pounds (680 kg) and its antlers could reach an incredible 13-ft- (4-m-) spread. Once ranging from western Europe to China, this animal died out some 10,000 years ago. However, at least one population, living in Russia’s Ural Mountains, managed to survive until about 7,770 years ago, long after the end of the Pleistocene. 

See the Irish Elk up close in the Museum’s Hall of Advanced Mammals! We’re open daily from 10 am-5:30 pm. Plan your visit.

Photo: © AMNH 

Realizing the bad guy in Se7en actually didn’t do his research.

St. Gregory (Pope Gregory I) defined the Sin of Gluttony (Gula) as the desire to:

1. Eat before mealtimes

2. Seek out delicacies (especially spurning available food in favour of delicacies)

3. Enhance the pleasure of food through elaborate cooking

4. Eat more than is needed

5. Eagerly eat

Given that the entry into contemporary Western culture has been through Christianity, I think we can be comfortable saying the Gluttony has for the last 1,400 years been about food as is not to be generalised about the hoarding of resources.

the full moon in paintings

Larkspur and lilies commish

Sun-rays fighting their way through the morning fog☀️

by Against The Light

I’m an atheist. I despise evangelical christians. That said, if more christians were like this guy, I imagine there would be a lot less misery in the world.

Rays of sunlight illuminating the valley below - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

Arctic lights

by oddvar_arnesen_

Alpine Autumn - Adlerweg, Tirol, Austria, October 2022

photo by: nature-hiking

Alpine Lakes Wilderness

elliothawkey

(by giveusthisdane)

Priorities

That’s Alec from the Legoland Dicovery Center in Phoenix.

When he visits other Lego Discovery Centers he always ‘steals’ a Lego Animal

The Groundhog came from Philadelphia.

Good morning Kagoshima.