It is believed that the first known cattle in Texas arrived with the Franciscan missionaries as they moved north to establish a string of missions through the San Antonio valley and toward Goliad. The cattle also were being brought into California under similar circumstances, and soon spread into...
km (239,000 sq. miles), the Central African Republic is slightly smaller than Texas or half the size of France. Squeezed between Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo, it’s the smallest landlocked country in central October...
In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a groundbreaking experiment. Within a la... Article Alan Bellows 1488 2007-05-31 A Walk in the Valley of the Uncanny In June 2006 at the ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communicatio...
We have spent many nights camping, and there is nothing more satisfying that a warm fire on a cool fall evening. But somehow, for me, the photograph of that fire is less than satisfying. However, I occasionally find a subject that is more visually interesting, including this chess set I ...
For nearly 60 years, Texas didn’t have an official state flag between 1879 & 1933. During that time, the Lone Star flag was active, but the unofficial flag. A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue-twister “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could...
A spokesperson for the Texas Comptroller told me in a previous interview that some rural households in West Texas would cost as much as $130,000 each to connect to fiber. “Lutnick apparently believes, like Trump and like Musk, that paying for fiber instead of satellite is wasted money,”...
One person in Texas discovered that an armadillo's osteoderms – their bony armour plating – can be bulletproof and made a round of ammunition just bounce off, like a tiny superhero. 23. Crows can hold a grudge against a human While studying crows, zoologist John Marzluff and his team of...
Hunting can keep a check on our appetites too, Susan Cameron Devitt, a biologist who recently moved from Florida to Texas, notes that one of the things you learn quickly from hunting is how much labor goes into producing a meal. “If you buy meat at the grocery store, you can eat ...
Bondi was still coming to terms with the news as he slinked across London’s back streets. The town seemed divided. One half contained the English, sullen and resentful behind their walls. The other was a Norman city, composed of two motte-and-bailey fortifications. It was as if each par...
According to theUniversity of Texas, men actually prefer women with thicker thighs and curvier bodies to the stick figures we see in the media. One study said the male brain’s reward system after taking drugs can be compared to the reward of looking at curvaceous ladies. This is a great ...