I mentioned in a recent inbox cleaning that I was watching the Mary Tyler Moore show again after Cherie and Rachel bought it for me as part of my birthday presents on DVD.
Entertainment Weekly writes of the story behind the famous hat toss which ended the montage at the start of the show.
The montages would change from season to season, but the hat toss would always end each one throughout the end of the show.
Undark writes of the danger of feral hogs threatening biodiversity across the country.
Feral hogs will eat almost anything which takes away food from other animals, but they also will eat other animals and their foraging style of being a living roto-tiller destroys plants that the hogs aren't interested in, but other animals need to live.
The article also mentions the ecological disaster in the Channel Islands in California where 150 years ago, pigs were used as farm animals with some escaping.
Pigs don't take very long to become feral and there would eventually number over 5,000 hogs with the hogs indirectly endangering the island fox, a small cat-sized creature only found on these islands.
While the hogs didn't eat the foxes, the hogs would become easy prey for the golden eagle, which eats land animals, unlike the golden eagle's natural predator the bald eagle, which was almost wiped out by the chemical DDT.
As a result, bald eagles weren't eating the golden eagle, which became established on the island by being able to feed on hogs and the island fox.
When the hogs were all eliminated from the island, wildlife managers were able to return bald eagles to the island (since DDT is now banned) and they began to naturally control the golden eagle, which led to some captive-bred foxes to be returned to the island and begin the process of re-populating there.
I find it so interesting how one minor addition or subtraction to an environment can change it so completely.
Ryan sent me this link to a YouTube-hosted short documentary on the video game Burger Time.
Burger Time dates all the way back to the early 80s and I'm willing to wager if you are in the 45-60-year-old range that you have at least heard of it, if not played it.
I owned the game on the first video game system that I owned in the 80s, Intellivision and I had bought it for one of the systems when Ryan was little (I think Nintendo, but could have been Sega Genesis).
Lots of good times playing that game with Ryan and even dating back to living at home.
CNN writes of a recent discovery of a baby sea turtle that died after being washed onto shore in Florida.Beings die all the time, what's so special about this one?
Well, this one died with 104 pieces of plastic in its stomach that caused its death.
Imagine a turtle that small and that young to have that amount of plastic in its stomach that quickly?
This world has so many environmental problems and so few answers or so few interested in what it takes to solve those problems that I'm truly saddened in the inability to deal with doing Something.
Take a look at that crap and tell me that feels right to you.
We may disagree on what to do and how much it costs etc, but I can't imagine anyone saying that they are ok with that in general.
Hannah Buehler of Buffalo's WBKW brings us the word of a new product called the Barnacle is replacing the old-school "Boot" as a device to place on cars that are illegally parked in western New York.
The Barnacle looks like a large foldout case that is attached to a vehicle by two large suction cups that are held to the window by two industrial strength suction cups that applies with a thousand pounds of pressure and takes away the driver's vision away that the vehicle cannot be legally driven.
You then call or reach the company online to receive directions on how to remove it and where to return the Barnacle to a dropbox.
It seems like a good way to eliminate tow trucks and help the drivers that parked illegally get on the way faster.
We wrap with a sports story that isn't all sports as the Athletic writes about the 1939 Heisman Trophy winner of Nile Kinnick of Iowa, who was killed in World War II and was regarded almost universally from people that knew Kinnick to be headed for a future in politics as a governor, senator, and even president.
The Nile Kinnick story is more than just a sports story, it's one that shows that a great life doesn't have to be a long one.
Back tomorrow with more football, if I have time and what could be a forgotten superstars segment.
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