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Here's a link from Nik: the 50 residents of Pitcairn Island, descendants of the mutineers from the HMS bounty, have a website. There's a Pitcairn virtual shopping mall, a photo album, and important information on ham radios and beekeeping. Yeah, big wads of online information are great, but have we lost all mystery? Here's a long New Zealand article on the weirdness of Pitcairn life and alleged sexual transgressions.

Also, Australia fertilizes eggs without sperm. So theoretically, infertile men and lesbian couples could now have their own biological children. Cool.

 

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.