Loopier than a bucket of eels on a Farris wheel*

Ernst Haeckel looked into microscopes and drew what he saw. These pictures show two of his drawings. The colored one is of sea anemones, the black and white one is of slime molds. Don't miss your chance to see some slime mold congeal in this video. There is a ton of eukaryotic life out there and he looked at some of it and drew it afterward. He was really good at this. That's great. I can't say enough about how great he is, Ernst Haeckel I mean. He also wrote stuff about it too, so he could write and draw. You can bet he had lots to say about the development of organisms, probably very important things which went on to steer future learning in these subjects. He loved to spy the bustling activities of overlooked animals.

Another treat, something else that is good (I'm not sure if it's great, I will hold off making a decision about this until later) is journohistorian Niall Ferguson's 4-part series on money, after his book The Ascent of Money. It's really interesting stuff, the history of economic theories and actions. You'll learn about the basic outlines of certain commonplace ideas, such as that the word "bank" stems from an Italian word meaning bench. At the bench the deals would be made, the money lending, perhaps just a little usury, operating fees really and hands shaking. Probably other business was conducted at the benches, advice about things and stuff. Some people are beginning to suspect that the key to a smoothly operating economy is income not home-ownership. I'm sure that not home owning and no income incoming are neither a shard of a scrap of the economy, let alone (put it down at once) a key. It's agreed, not working and not owning is bad for the economy.

There's another super important thing to blog about. What is it though? Oh yeah, nope I still forget. Just a second. No, it completely escapes me. Uh. One more minute, just a second more, sorry about this, thanks a lot, uh. Oh yeah, I remember. I found this really weird link to Mumbia-Central website about the oldest mammal fossil ever found! In the history of the world! It's the oldest one! But this exciting, difficult to verify, bit of trivia is doubly weird because it was published on Sept. 11, 2001. What could it all mean? The oldest mammal fossil and the violent farce-making of passionate non-thinkers, one ancient the other squarely in the center of the now past present, combined on one fateful internet post. What wonders there are for us to look at and think about? There are lots of them, I'm sure.

*The title of this "post" owes its origin to the penetrating and poetic prose of Rex Murphy, who is, in this particular, keeping in view the parameters of the question, keeping in mind the particulars of the instance, as it were, one of a kind. He was dismissing conspiracy theories at the time.