There is a Science Man notion, that has been around for about a hundred years or so, and that is known as Dollo's law, for the fellow who propounded it—Louis Dollo, a Belgian miner, who liked to build dinosaurs. And Dollo's law, it is this: "evolution is not reversible."

23 is:
The 9th prime and the sum of 3 consecutive primes; 5, 7 and 11
The atomic number of Vanadium
The number of chromosomes in a human sperm or ova (haploid)
The number of times that Julius Caesar was stabbed.

The American humans, they are always obsessing, about the primates trying to be the president. In doing so, they can sometimes miss the antics of the baboons, who are contending for lesser offices.

Friday Photography

This weeks post takes a very brief look at the importance of a photographer knowing their own artistic tastes and comfort level with abstraction/realism