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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • We can all agree that it’s a tragedy that this animal died.

    The other consideration is that polar bears are amongst the most relentless and vicious predators around. A polar bear around an inhabited area is very much a serious safety threat. Iceland doesn’t have any animal predators and therefore also wouldn’t have the trained people or equipment necessary to deal with neutralizing and relocating this bear.

    I would have liked to have seen the animal safely moved. But I suspect there’s more context to this story that we don’t have beyond the headline.














  • The bigger the wood the more movement it will have. End grain boards like you describe often have their pieces oriented in opposing directions to manage the warping due to expansion and contraction. Plus the more pieces the more glue jointing holding it together.

    To provide more stability, you could cut a series of slices and flip every other one such that the curve of the grain is alternating.