Expedition Portal has some nice pictures of the PanAmerica and a great quote from Bill Rodencal, Harley Davidson Museum Collections Lead, who said : “What’s a road? To a motorcycle, what isn’t?”
The article reminds readers that Harley's early …
I went looking for an image of the Pan America from the side, and found this article - very interesting motorcycle. Very interesting indeed. Says 150 Hp, 242 Kg wet. It seems to have knobby tyres as …
Potatoes and tomatoes are both members of the deadly nightshade family of plants of Belladona fame. I live on tomatoes for about 3 months a year when they are growing in my garden from late July to …
Yes, I have.
It is a thorough discussion of the very complex changes society will need to undergo to really accomplish no longer dumping CO2 into the atmosphere, in any manner.
While fossil fuel burning for tranport is a major issue, modern …
Not read yet, but ordered. Will be read by this time next week. Mr Gates always seem to have thoughts well worth entertaining seriously.
Speaking of environmental issues, has anyone any comments about Elon's $1.5 billion dollar investement in …
I read Team of Rivals when it was released, I probably should read it again as its been a while. It was, and still is, a remarkable work. Lincoln was so much more savy about leading a nation than the East Coast political parties powers that be …
I reported about the use of dogs to identify the sweat of asymptomatic patients last July 6, 2020 here on cake, in the following post which I copied below, since I can only link to the thread itself, which comprises hundreds of …
It will be interesting to see what the ultimate outcome of this story will be. Everyone should read this article carefully, there are a number of layers here.....
Apparently, Dr. Gokal was charged by the Harris County district attorney for …
Wow!!
The images look lovely, and even alive when they move! Truly amazing.
I have some monochrome images of relatives from the 19th, and very early, 20th century.
I wonder what they might look like colorized with similar skill...
Hi @Denise Yes, it certainly did!
I'm not knowledgeable about New England forests, but in Indiana, which has more than a few trees in its National Forests, after the leaves fall off most of the deciduous trees, there is one tree that retains its …
Great set, especially like the blue door!
Is that a beech tree with the orange leaves in the second image, perhaps?
No snow here in the mid West yet. Maybe some this weekend
Amazon Prime is available in 17 major nations, so not the whole world, but with much of the USA, Canada, UK, Europe, China, Mexico, and India and 9 more countries, it is in a large part of the whole …
Rainbows occur fairly often in Scotland, or maybe it just seems like it, because I have seen several rainbows in the Cairngorm mountains.
Mountains near the sea shore offer opportunities to look in all four compass quadrants too, which is always …
Well done!
I always have trouble trying to capture double rainbows! The second rainbow I tend to find can be hard to grab with cameras, since the exposures and saturations for the second fainter rainbow can vary quite a bit from the closer …
Perfectly clear, I think.....
I wonder if the insect cells that produce the synthetic Spike protein are in intact insects, or are insect cells grown in cell culture. That might matter to some people.
I suspect most people would feel that …
The Germans bombed London many times in WW 1 from both airships and heavier than air bombers.
I have a number in my mind from a popular history of the powerful weapons of WW 1 that some of the German bombers could carry about 1000 pounds of bombs, …
Regarding self injection @Dracula. Good question, about self vaccination.
Millions of diabetics inject themselves with insulin, a potentially lethal drug, everyday and some of them more than once a day, so certainly folks CAN, and do, inject …
I continue to be amazed that the senior citizens of western nations haven't rioted over minimal to negative interest rates for years - maybe they've just lived with low interest rates for so long they have accepted that governments, politicians …