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Hmm... rereading this on a drizzly day. There is a known record of Nazi scientists but that does not mean all scientists are National Socialists. Assuming that no scientists has an bias agenda is with high probability wrong like with high probability there are scientists with no conscious bias...

Ours are more less hibernating for the winter. (Apparently not really hibernation as they can wake up and sniff the outside if not too cold.) Raccoon dogs and foxes are known to utilize badgers dens in winter time.

It actually ties up carbon, which according to some is a good thing. Hemp does grow in almost all countries of Europe without any extra work or energy input. Yes collecting and processing it takes some but if done in a small scale operation not really much. On the third hand I agree that...

That is only one part in the function. Before and after really matter, equally for how long. It does get complicated. There are many sources that have come to the conclusion that hemp is really good in several respects as natural plant fibers go.

This has been tested and measured. "Plastic" garment that is made from stapled fiber yarn sheds small particles. Continuous fiber fabrics barely measurable. It is the huge amount of fiber ends that are the problem. Modern (mostly) polyester fleeces are bad in that respect, continuous yarn...

Ukrainians have apparently done a ground attack with an all RC small vehicles force. Now that is a very short step from first having limited pic analyzing capability and then independent shooting. I think the equipment actually exists but not utilized yet. Welcome skynet.

Well, you can always add more clothes but only take off so much ...

I caught that and I agree it is a worth while goal. But it does not necessarily mean "kick out plastics". A good point but what really limits one's choice is the availability of things and price as usual. Yes I do have cotton T-shirts but about 3 times as many synthetic ones, which actually...

Some 15 years ago an archaeology student in her graduate work studied various fabrics in the National Museum of Finland. She develped a way to tell linen and hemp apart under microscope. About half of the fabrics previously thought to be linen turned out to be hemp. Hemp fabric is available...

While plastics (man made polymers) are not harmless neither is something like cotton if we look at destruction of nature it causes. Getting rid of all "man made" materials is possible but it means "back to BC", stone age. I don't really see that as a worth while goal. I can understand if...

A genuine question: why do you want to use metal plates?

Here it really depends on snow, when on ground it is rarely truly dark but when the ground is bare and sky clouded it is kind of twilight all day. The real twilight though is in the north where sun does not rise at all but there is still some light.

Today we have here 5h 46m official daylight.

That, it has fairly mild taste and various spices are traditionally used, black and white pepper and often white gravy. For some reason it belongs to the class of foods "love or hate".

My on going project of returning lute fish to the table this year is in a kind of floating situation. The rest of the family have not returned positive answers yet ...

I carried Norwegian survival biscuits a few times when flying to holidays, not any more. Apparently they contain so much oil that they show as bloody jam on those infernal scanners like my birding books catch all the time. So many false positives and nobody thought that there might be as many...

Daylight adapted eye is most sensitive to slightly yellowish green and night time to blueish green.

Sesame bars and halva.

2 weeks ago had three smallish trees down after a unusually hard wind from awkward direction (neighbor cut a largish area open few years ago). So basically I got off easy. Got about 30cm of snow in last 24h. Ground is not frozen very deep so there is a possibility for additional damage if...

A wooden building in a moist climate (or in condensing conditions) has to be built right and has to be lived in right. On the other hand there are 600 year old wooden churches in Norway.