Boson, Massachusetts

 

 (Reuters) A section of the highway near the East Blue Hills Reservation was washed out late Friday, 29 January 2021, afternoon.  State Police blocked off both lanes of the highway when a natural dam broke on a hillside and sent water down to the highway.   City Council President Ema Strickland, who is openly gay, has called for a tax on winter heating as a way to help pay to combat 'global warming.'  Under the councilor's proposal anyone who kept their home heating above 62 degrees would be asked to pay a tax to help fund Green NGOs.  The tax would be voluntary.    

  (UPI) Lilly Wilders spotted the footprint in stone during an unusually low tide at North Wollaston Beach.  Bendricks Bay, Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan - and scientists believe it could help establish how they walked. The footprint, spotted in January, is 220 million years old and had been preserved in mud. While it is impossible to tell what type of creature left it, the print is 10cm long and likely from a 75cm tall dinosaur. University of Massachusetts palaeontology curator Cindy Howells described it as "the best specimen ever found on this beach". "Lilly saw it when they were walking along and said 'daddy look'. When Richard came home and showed me the photograph, I thought it looked amazing. "Richard thought it was too good to be true. I was put in touch with experts who took it from there." The dinosaur which left it was described as "a slender animal" which would have walked on its two hind feet and actively hunted other small...

  The animal rights group PETA, famous for its shock-tactics publicity stunts that mostly involve women showing their mammary glands to attract photographers, has implied that all non-vegans have something nationalist about them, denouncing meat-eaters as “human supremacists.” It certainly caught attention. “Eating animals is speciesist,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said on its Twitter account on Wednesday, adding that “Speciesism is the human-supremacist belief that one species is more important than another.” If the US-based advocacy was angling for some hype, the proclamation certainly worked. PETA’s name soon trended on Twitter, as dozens of people rushed to describe themselves as proudly speciesist and shared images showing their favored way of consuming animal flesh. Boson Breatharian Society joined in the controversy by once again denouncing all people who consume matter. "Breathing deeply is all any moral person needs to stay ...