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When I was doing sled dog tours guests often asked if mushers worry about bears. Nope.

A dog musher's worst nightmare is encountering a moose.

when i went to alaska last summer, at all the parks and nature reserves and stuff there they of course had safety warnings about the wildlife.

for bears, the safety warnings were like, make noise, wave your arms, talk in a normal speaking voice, stay calm, don’t run, wait for the bear to move on which it will do 99% of the time, and you will be ok! 👍

for moose, the safety warnings were like. RUN.

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Blessed yule

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Big. Wet. Energy. It's Friday, everyone! Y'all made it through the week. Stay cozy. Stay kind. "zoo prague" by helgabj is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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Faroe Islands by jamiesonthor

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Had the honor of observing this iconic pack in 2008

Part of the Druid Pack fooling around in the snow

The Druid wolf pack, formed in 1996, was the first group of relocated wolves that were released into Yellowstone National Park. The pack grew fast from five members to 37 members at its peak in 2001. The pack collapsed in late 2009 and early 2010, possibly due to the loss of long-time alpha female #569F and an infestation of mange affecting all pack members. The Druid pack had exceptional longevity and their legacy lives on in many of today’s packs. [x]

Pictures by Robert Weselmann

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That silly straw goat

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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Cows warm themselves by a fire as the temperature hovers around -49 degrees at a farm in Magansk, Russia, 2008 - by Ilya Naymushin, Russian

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one of my neighbors 😍

@bovineblogger

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Sunrise in the channel

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Red Fox explores the town dump, Churchill, MB

Taken November 2024

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Day 13

It is friday the thirteenth and the goat has not burned yet

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Ahhhhhhh... Friday. Y'all made it through the week. Be kind. Do good. Enjoy that weekend. "Polar Bear backstroke" by letsgoeverywhere is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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We're Over Here

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4 and 11 for ask game! 🥳

4. Movie of the year?

Honestly there's nothing that stood out to me this year. I enjoyed Kill and Laapataa Ladies, got a few chuckles out of Deadpool & Wolverine, but I wouldn't call any of them great films. I have a feeling my movie of the year will be Nosferatu, which doesn't come out in the US until Christmas.

11. Something you want to do again next year?

Definitely another trip to Glacier Bay National Park. Such an amazing experience.