I'm ashamed to admit that I already had a project in mind that will now use the chart conveniently provided with this pattern... (...What? The binary scarf needs a coordinating hat...)
- New Thing Learned for 6 March: Killer whales are in the dolphin family, but have no immediate relatives, indicating that once the genus Orcinus established itself, it never branched off into different species as the basic model gradually evolved into today's orca. This is apparently somewhat unusual given the time-frame involved. [Source: Wikipedia.]
- New Thing Learned for 7 March: Beavers are so driven to build dams across running water that they will occasionally target drainage culverts, threatening roads and other human priorities. A nonlethal way of combatting this behavior involves building big cages around the culvert outflows, which kind of begs the question of why the culverts weren't designed that way in the first place. [Source: Animal Planet, "Leave it to the real beavers".]