It is warm enough (in Minnesota terms — 9°C) that I have thrown open the doors and windows and am airing out the house. Fresh air? I’ve kinda missed the stuff that isn’t so cold your nostril hairs snap off.
All I need now is for the spiders to wake up.
“…so cold your nostril hairs snap off.” — Magnets might help.
I’m not a physicist, so I would never have thought of that.
We had fresh snow overnight…
No, that’d require an attorney that “knows evolutionary biology”.
PZ, the photo shows you have an amazingly large front yard.
I think it pays to be across the street from the right sort of thing.
Bruce — Except as I recall PZ has a nearby cemetery where they play loud, obnoxious music at times. Hopefully that’s gone and merely a fading memory.
PZ have you caught up with this interesting genetic work on social spiders https://scienmag.com/untangling-the-social-lives-of-spiders? I don’t fully understand what they are saying about the genetic changes but you will.