{"id":33826,"date":"2011-04-09T13:10:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/xtolocaturday-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T13:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T13:10:21","slug":"xtolocaturday-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/xtolocaturday-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Xtolocaturday | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a family vacation recently (as those who follow me on Twitter already know<\/a>; see also here<\/a>, and here<\/a>). I haven’t talked about it at all, but we were visiting friends in Mexico. We took a day to visit the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza — the day after<\/em> the Equinox, thankfully; it’s massively crowded there due to a light show<\/a> on the Temple of Kukulkan, the great ziggurat there — and it was spectacular. I promise I will write about that at some point, for what I hope are obvious reasons.<\/p>

But in the meantime, since it’s Caturday, and I’ve chosen to expand that to any animal, here is a little fella we saw while we were there:<\/p>

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[Click to iguananate.]<\/p>

We actually saw dozens of iguanas, and my brother-in-law Chris took lots of excellent pictures of them (like this one, too<\/a>). <\/p>

We learned the Mayan word for iguana is xtoloc<\/em>, pronounced SHTO-lok. This is my new favorite word in the whole world (ironically, taking the spot previously held by \"Quetzlcoatl\"). Whenever we see a lizard on TV, I turn ...<\/p>

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