Marcia Gloekler

blah blah blah... My kids say funny stuff... i say funny stuff too... but it's usually dry and sarcastic.. Boomer!!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@BlueJaysDad

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@yay_tunes It’s a cervix

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@JaysClubhouse Not Ernie. Shut your dirty mouth

[꧁Bobbi꧂ @SaltyBitch_52]

This is the type of animal testing I can get behind 🤣

[Garrett @G_Man210]

@FreddyLA7 @RockyRd_Patriot As many have said:
“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive across it,”

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@MsBrockelbank it. Is. Done. 🥳

[Oklahoma Football @OU_Football]

Watch live as Brent Venables is introduced as Oklahoma’s 23rd head football coach. #BoomerSooner https://t.co/HC6Jf4PZLz

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@CounselorSTEM @STEMcha @tonydonen @MrJimDavid @AmyRobinsonSTEM @jenniferjparris This is also how I look at Ms. Amy when I walk in the door!

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@CounselorSTEM @STEMcha @tonydonen @MrJimDavid @AmyRobinsonSTEM @jenniferjparris Perfect!!

[NWS Norman @NWSNorman]

Radar around 6:30 pm. Thunderstorms are generally weakening across southeast Oklahoma. Meanwhile, (birds migrating?) south are showing up on radar. Notice the brighter shades of green. Some of the velocity values are near 45 mph, so they are obeying the speed limit. #okwx

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@TVAnews So what am I hearing in Soddy?

[Lincoln Riley @LincolnRiley]

So good🤝

[Tony Donen @tonydonen]

Wonderful experience tonight for @STEMcha 10th graders and their families… docent night @HunterMuseum

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@MsBrockelbank @STEMcha Yum!!

[Gridiron @Gridiron]

You won’t see a better interception all weekend than THIS from Oklahoma’s D.J. Graham 🤯🤯🤯

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

So grateful for @CHI_Memorial but I really don’t understand why I’m still waiting after an hour for a simple x-ray ☹️#frustrated

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

@tonydonen @STEMcha How do they spin?? 😁

[Hamilton County Schools @hamcoschools]

Due to weather, Hamilton County Schools will be closed tomorrow, February 16. This includes HCS at Home.

[Marcia Gloekler @MarLeighRN]

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[STEM School FabLab @STEMFabLab]

Student work being displayed for all to see! Go check out the EPB Holiday Windows, including the Miller Park decor, featuring this AMAZING sign fabricated by @STEMcha students! #digitalfabrication