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July 2025

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I managed my quota of writing at least something, this week, on my mathematics blog. And it was about the comics, my usual domain of original writing material. If you have my RSS feed on your reader, you already saw it, but if you missed that, here's the past four weeks' writing:


Next in photos is Saturday at Anthrohio, which starts with the Rodents SIG, that got quickly and completely diverted into people touching patient animals. So enjoy a bunch of those pictures, please.

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Rats! One of the rat fursuiters gets to hold an actual rat who was very patient with the whole thing. Also, you see that guy in the background, the one petting the rat's back? You'll see him again.


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The rat has decided to accept this gift of attention.


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Rats enjoying some time together.


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The rat fursuiter didn't have the rat's attention the whole time. Other fursuiters were able to get some time, too!


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And here's the adult woodchuck, the one with the unsteady walk.


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Woodchuck giving us a glamor shot. Also, hey, that guy's in the background again, too. Keep watching.


Trivia: The first woven silk fragments are known to date from about 3000 BC. Though silkworms (and mulberry trees) can grow in very many climates, China did not lose its monopoly on silkworms until around the Han-Roman trade boom of 200 BC to 200 AD, when silkworms were transplanted to Korea and Japan. Source: A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, William J Bernstein.

Currently Reading: Moon Launch! A History of the Saturn-Apollo Launch Operations, Charles D Benson, William B Faherty.

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