Category: Natural World
Lazy Friday picture post
August 19th, 2011, No Comments
Three funny tumblr picture blogs found this week:
get out of there cat. you are not a head of lettuce. i cannot use you to make salad and you certainly will not taste good covered in ranch dressing.
It’s that time again… Time for UK students to get their A-Levels results and the newspapers to run sexy [...]
Mr president, tear down these dams
August 9th, 2011, No Comments
Paul Greenberg has a modest proposal:
Throughout the United States, there are tens of thousands of dams that today serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Most of them were built on streams and rivers during the Industrial Revolution, providing mechanical hydropower to textile mills and other private manufacturers, primarily in the Northeast. But as manufacturing moved away [...]
Everyday authoritarianism in America
July 18th, 2011, No Comments
Found this video by accident, a couple of young dudes on a road somewhere in the US being stopped by a copper because the passenger is videotaping his mate, which is supposedly illegal.
What I actually wanted to see was this video, for Palau: a baby sloth yawning:
Which just is the most adorable thing I’ve seen [...]
Spiders are the cutest of the invertebrates
April 18th, 2011, No Comments
Even the extremely arachnaphobic Palau has to admit these are cute spiders. Via Vuijlsteke.
Stamp collecting
December 18th, 2010, No Comments
Proper science is hard work:
A Wasp Opus 30 Years in the Making
Future entomologists working on the Australian wasp genus Sericophorus will have a much easier time identifying species, thanks to a 234-page paper by curator Wojciech Pulawski. A Danish scientist named Ole Lomholdt actually initiated this massive study in the early 1980s. However, following his [...]
Dude, I’m so high right now
August 3rd, 2010, No Comments
Do big cats like catnip? Signs points to yes.
What a big hole you got…
June 1st, 2010, No Comments
This astonishingly unnerving photograph was posted today on the Flickr.com feed of the Guatemalan goverment and shows a seemingly bottomless sinkhole that opened up on Sunday in Guatemala City as a swath of Central America was drenched by tropical storm Agatha.
Bad news sandwich
May 18th, 2010, No Comments
Gordon Brown was reputed to have a bit of a temper when prime minister, especially when he got bad news. Which is why his staff when needed to bring him some resorted to an old trick: a bad news sandwich. Give a bit of good news, then a bit of bad news, then a bit [...]
What The Internets Is For.
May 13th, 2010, No Comments
Find Owls Near You. Does what it says on the tin.
