Friday, January 2, 2009 - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM
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Leaving the Wash, Devil's Hall trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, January 1, 2009
Arrangements were made and by days end LD had been dragged the 60 miles from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park visitors center parking lot to the Charlie's Transmission parking lot in Carlsbad where she and I sit awaiting Charlie's ministrations on Monday.
Night camp
Parking lot - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM
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.