India Do-Over The sarcasm was too dry to be understood in yesterday's "War on the Poor" take on India's farm mechanization effort, and also failed to fully explain the situation. Thanks to friends in-country, the policy situation receives a more complete explanation of the ironies involved. It is a classic case of unintended consequences.In the 1980s bear market, various land banking schemes (CRP, WRP, etc.) with payments to farmers doubled in exchange for acreage limitation or set-asides led to the mantra that farmers were being paid not to farm. Now it can be said that India is paying farm workers not to work. The noble intentions of the country's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) is to guarantee rural dwel...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae. This waterbird is found in northern Australia and southern New Guinea.[2] The species is not truly migratory but it sometimes travels large distances to find food and water, especiall...
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain areas of Africa (and historically, Arabia) and is the largest living species of bird. The common ostrich is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus St...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.