Jamestown Archaeology: Armor backplate excavation time-lapse - clip

Jamestown Rediscovery teams are awesome! Here's the discovery and very delicate removal of an armor backplate that, once spruced up, looks suitable for display but still quite uncomfortable to wear!

The Officially Ignored Link Between Lyme Disease and Plum Island - clip

A long time friend of mine was diagnosed with Lyme disease years ago but it took her doctors years to admit the diagnosis. So what does Plum island have to do with it? This report is for her:

Rhyme: The Saturn Return of Mr. Trump

September 8, 2018: Today was spent composing, typing, and posting The Saturn Return of Mr. Trump: Authority Challenged for Stars Over Washington which is why I shouldn't have been surprised immediately afterward when a brief, Saturn-infused political verse suddenly formed within my brain and I will consider it quite a nuisance until the rhyme is typed out loud and posted somewhere.

And of course, astrological Saturn is, among other things, form, as in, the creation of something that did not exist before. This can't excuse the following whimsy, merely describes or defines it.

Now usually I type and publish the political limericks of former secret agent Mr. A. Cat, plus, various political poems over at Lim's Limericks so the following effort published here instead counts as a variance upon that particular habit! Now don't you fret, dear reader, for the verse is so brief it will be over before it barely begins!

The Saturn Return of Mr. Trump

awaits him while he's on the stump

old Saturn just might kick his rump

the irresponsible Mr. Trump.

jc Sept 8, 2018; all rights reserved