Jason E. Andersen

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Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark on the canvas of existence. The only limit is the extent of your imagination.

  • Windward

    Did anyone get blown away yesterday? Are all pets accounted for? It’s been a rough week in terms of wind and other weather events. We had sustained winds in the upper 30’s with gusts up to 46 miles per hour (freedom units) in our neck of the woods. This begs the question, why can it get so…

  • Bear naps

    I learned something this week that shook the foundation of my childhood education: Bonus Fun Fact: Bears don’t really hibernate. No, seriously, they don’t. Sure, they take long naps during the winter, but it’s not true hibernation — it’s a state called torpor. Torpor is a low energy state that some animals can enter to survive poor environmental conditions.…

  • April fool

    Happy April Fool’s Day! No practical jokes here, only spring-oriented fun fact snippets. Bonus Fun Fact: The pasque flower is the earliest blooming wildflower in Iowa. Pasque flowers (Anenome patens) begin to bloom in late March through early April, often underneath snow cover. They are a rare flower, usually only found in dry tallgrass prairie remnants (like those in…

  • Fire foundations

    We’ll take a break from all the nature and do a bit of firefighting history today. Firefighting has a long and storied history, so I’ve been told. Certainly, even long before humanity had first harnessed fire, there were folks trying to put it out. I went down a rabbit hole of firefighting history this week and…

  • Pollen protein

    Bonus fun fact: The pollen of flowers can contain more than twice as much protein as your average slab of beef. Pollen grains are composed of 2.5 to 61 percent pure protein, most of which is kept in a central cavity of succulent protein goo. By comparison, beef is about 26 percent protein, by weight. That’s why you…

  • By the yard

    As I’ve said before, I am taking an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) course for my fire department volunteerism. It is a wealth of fun facts. Such as… Bonus fun fact: The average adult human hangs about 20 square feet of skin on their bodies. I think most of us have heard that the skin is…

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