Loving Free Edinburgh!

Went to another museaum..the museaum of natural history. Is it a rule that every natural museaum needs to be juvenille? This is a major design flaw that is consistant between every natural history museaum. It's like reading USA today....the information is part way decent but you feel dumber having injested it the way it is delivered to you in words no bigger than 4 letters and more pie graphs than anything else. But it did get me thinking about a few things so I suppose the point was accomplished such as:

Plastic, mans greatest and most detrimental invention

First plastics were made of natural materials, bones and horns melted down and manipulated in 1850. This, obviously put a strain on natural resources so they started finding synthetic ways to make plastic. Our great grandfathers or great great I'm not sure, were born in a world without plastics. Everything was glass, metal, or wood- heavy, breakable, and rigid. To try to imagine a life without plastics is amazing- no phones, records (which gave birth to tapes, cd's, IPODS), medicine (ventilaters, pacemakers, inhalers), Computers. With plastics we were given an oppertunity and responsibility to not over use it the way we did with coal, gas, and timber but alas we did. Whoops...we effed that up.

Another fact...unrelated- behold the Quegga.


Recently extinct in the early 20th century. It's half horse and half zebra!!!! My brain partly exploded as I expected them to tell me next that there was a peggasus or a liger (see Napolean Dynomite). Much like the dodo bird and all of the dinosaurs this makes me ponder that the all mighty has truely lost his spunk in creating entertaining species. At least we still have the tit bird.....as well as subfamilies that are defined as the great tit, ground tit, penduline tit, and long tailed tit. (Ask wikipedia...I dare you!)