Wednesday, January 2, 2008 - Philadelphia MS
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Leaving Tuscaloosa
This Lazy Daze doesn't deal well with temperatures much below 30 degrees. It's just not well enough insulated. The cold air slides down the glass, out under the drapes and out across my bed. It was in the high teens last night - brrrrr.
I'm headed generally westward. Down 69 through Moundville Alabama then west through Eutaw Alabama and on westward toward Vicksburg Mississippi.
First stop - Moundville Alabama
I'm writing from the foot of the large mound at the Moundville Archaeological Site.
Night camp
Wal-Mart parking lot in Philadelphia, Mississippi
Messing Up Their Results
... Jack Panksepp found that laboratory-reared rats who've never seen or smelled a cat stop playing the instant you put a tuft of cat hair in their play space. Since frightened animals don't play, that's a good indication that those rats are afraid. ... This experience got Dr Panksepp to thinking about how many research laboratories might be messing up their results due to researchers' coming to work smelling like their pet cats.