A new poem by A.S. Kaswell: So this is Cambridge, where turkeys all sleep in the trees. The turkeys look down on the people, and poop on their college degrees. Bonus poem: Boston There exists an old poem about Cambridge’s neighbor city, Boston.
Tag: Turkey
Ambiguity: Broilers in Turkey
This week’s ambiguously-worded science headline: “Profitability and Cost Analysis for Contract Broiler Production in Turkey,”by Suleyman Karaman, Yavuz Taşcıoğlu, and Osman Doğan Bulut, Animals, vol. 13, no. 13, 2023. The authors are based at Akdeniz University and Iğdır University, Turkey.
The Turkish Batman and the Turkish Batman
Study, if you will the Turkish Batman (the city) and the Turkish Batman (the fictional superhero). Here, to the right, is a map showing the former. Here, below, is a video appreciation of the latter:
“Gross Appearance of Turkey Cloacae” [research study]
Turkeys are not much celebrated for their beauty. This study exemplifies that non-celebration: “Gross Appearance of Turkey Cloacae Before and After Single or Multiple Manual Semen Collections,” M.R. Bakst and H.C. Cecil, Poultry Science, vol. 62, no. 4, April 1, 1983, pp. 683-9. The authors explain: “The gross appearance of the turkey cloaca was examined […]