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The pork clock was excavated in the 1760s from the ruins of the Villa dei Papiri, a grand country house in the Roman town of Herculaneum. Early scholars were quick to realize that the unprepossessing object was a sundial, though some experts argued that it was modeled after a water jug rather than a ham …. The original clock is missing its gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig鈥檚 tail…

Though not exactly a clock, the Samrat Yantra鈥攐r supreme instrument鈥攊s the largest sundial in the world, measuring more than 88 feet in height. Made of marble and local stone with a gnomon that stands at 90 feet, this time-keeping attraction can tell accurate time, with just a two-second margin of error, day or night.

Epicurus (341鈥�270 B.C.) led an eponymous school of thought鈥揈picureanism鈥攖hat believed a happy life requires two things: ataraxia (freedom from mental disturbance) and aponia (the absence of physical pain). His philosophy might be characterized as 鈥淚f it is scary or painful, work to avoid it.鈥� Epicureans see discomfort as generally negative, and thus the elimination of threats and problems as the key to a happier life. Don鈥檛 get the impression that I am saying they are lazy or unmotivated鈥攓uite the contrary, in many cases. But they don鈥檛 see enduring fear and pain as inherently necessary or beneficial, and they focus instead on enjoying life.

Ataraxia should act like a slow-release drug, accumulating over days and weeks. Ancient philosophers believed achieving ataraxia created an emotional homeostasis, where the effect wouldn鈥檛 just be a more stable base-level mood, but one that would hopefully flow out to the people around you. If you are more tranquil, you will be less likely to react or combust. So not only do you not ruin your own day, you avoid ruining other people鈥檚 too. In a tranquil state you may even make better decisions.

A coronavirus vaccine for deer is 鈥� a possibility鈥攕cientists have already created them for zoo animals 鈥� but the practicality of inoculating millions of free-roaming ungulates would be daunting, to say the least. In the meantime, several states have advised deer hunters to take precautions when dealing with white-tailed deer.

The growing population of wolves in eastern Washington state does not appear to be hurting the populations of deer, elk and other ungulates. A report issued this week by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife looked at ungulate populations between fiscal 2015 and 2017. The report concluded that none of the ungulate populations in the assessment appeared to show clear signs of being limited by predation from wolves.