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wnycradiolab: chels: Armadillos are so cool. I mean, this dude...

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:08:07 -0600

chels:

Armadillos are so cool. I mean, this dude looks prehistoric. And I bet he’d be good at yoga. Those are his little ears tucked under his rear end in that second photo. What a weird and funny creature.

(These photos are from photographer Tim Flach, who has a great series on the human qualities of animals. If you like these, don’t miss his photos of bats. They’re creepy and endearing all at once.)

just. so. weird.

(via What do fruits and vegetables look like inside an MRI?...

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 11:47:16 -0500

(via What do fruits and vegetables look like inside an MRI? Short answer: “Whoa.”)

I want to buy and eat all the heirloom tomatoes at the...

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:37:00 -0500

I want to buy and eat all the heirloom tomatoes at the farmers’ market.

The view from Prospect Hill on a sunny Saturday afternoon :)

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 14:36:00 -0500

The view from Prospect Hill on a sunny Saturday afternoon :)

Stearns Quarry Park in Bridgeport for an afternoon walk with...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:39:10 -0500

Stearns Quarry Park in Bridgeport for an afternoon walk with Sameera

Weekend in Minneapolis! I am in love with these people. Photos...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:52:59 -0500

Weekend in Minneapolis! I am in love with these people.

Photos by Emma

arcticmuseum: George Wardwell, of Bucksport, Maine, was chief...

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:19:48 -0500

arcticmuseum:

George Wardwell, of Bucksport, Maine, was chief engineer on Peary’s auxiliary steamer the SS Roosevelt. During the wintes of 1905-06 and 1908-09, while Peary and his assistants (including the captain, Robert Bartlett) were away on the sea ice, Wardwell stayed with the vessel, frozen into a shallow bay at Cape Sheridan, on northeastern Ellesmere Island. In his personal journal he frequently mentions listening for “the running of the ice” just beyond the bay. He worried that the moving pack ice would crush the ship as it had many wooden vessels of earlier explorers and whalers.

We have often wondered what the running ice would sound like. Now thanks to NOAA, we can hear the many sounds of the polar sea ice. Scary!

Thanks to Tom Fries of the Arctic Institute for drawing our attention to this, and many other great links. Check out the blog here.

A lovely dusk in Logan Square!

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:31:28 -0500

A lovely dusk in Logan Square!

Hello from Medill Manor in Logan Square! There are, indeed,...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:26:00 -0500

Hello from Medill Manor in Logan Square! There are, indeed, moments when we take long enough breaks from obsessively watching Game of Thrones to do other things, such as make dumplings

….to later eat when we’re watching Game of Thrones

rhamphotheca: featheredsentinel: Crabs, thats right, Crabs Top...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:23:59 -0500

rhamphotheca:

featheredsentinel: Crabs, thats right, Crabs

Top left: Trapezia septata, female
Top right: Trapezia serenei, male
Bottom left: Trapezia speciosa, male
Bottom right: Trapezia rufopunctata, female

from the photo set Corall-associated fauna of Nhatrang Bay, Vietnam, on Flickr, by Ivan Marin

tomorrowmag: “Last night, we landed a robot on Mars. Today, a sandwich cookie celebrates that...

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:23:15 -0500

tomorrowmag:

“Last night, we landed a robot on Mars. Today, a sandwich cookie celebrates that accomplishment. The fluidity here between history and banality — and between science and pop culture — is, actually, kind of wonderful.”

— Megan Garber

Went to check out the beautiful studio space at Spudnik Press...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:59:00 -0500

Went to check out the beautiful studio space at Spudnik Press yesterday and made some prints! They are drying at home and I need to get another layer of color down this weekend, but pictures to come!

laphamsquarterly: oldhollywood: Orson Welles performing the...

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 14:34:19 -0500

laphamsquarterly:

oldhollywood:

Orson Welles performing the “Broomstick Suspension” magic trick with Lucille Ball during the filming of the I Love Lucy episode, “Lucy Meets Orson Welles” (1956)

“I’ve never had a friend in my life who wanted to see a magic trick, you know. I don’t know anybody who wants to see a magic trick. So I do it professionally; it’s the only way I get to perform.

I went once to a birthday party for [MGM boss] Louis B. Mayer with a rabbit in my pocket which I was going to take out of his hat. On came Judy Garland and Danny Kaye and Danny Thomas and everybody you ever heard of and then Al Jolson sang for two hours and my rabbit was peeing all over me, you know. And the dawn was starting to rise over the Hillcrest Country Club as we said goodnight to Louis B. Mayer and nobody’d asked me to do a magic trick. So the rabbit and I went home.”

-Welles, in the 1982 documentary The Orson Welles Story

What’s that about Magic Shows, Mr. Welles?

hah, i want always want to see magic tricks!

theatlantic: Astronaut Don Plays With Water on the...

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:37:00 -0500

theatlantic:

Astronaut Don Plays With Water on the International Space Station

When I own my own business, this is the sign I’ll post up...

Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:36:21 -0500

When I own my own business, this is the sign I’ll post up front.

Thanks to anthrogynous for the pic.

wnycradiolab: rocketboom: Family Portrait: Han, Darth, Leia,...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 14:41:38 -0500

wnycradiolab:

rocketboom:

Family Portrait: Han, Darth, Leia, Luke, Chewie, annnnnnd R2D2.

Via

Love! This should be in a textbook next to a paragraph about size variation in humans.

First name on the new plaque!

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:17:00 -0500

First name on the new plaque!

found a lil gem from the past

Sat, 21 Jul 2012 09:55:52 -0500

found a lil gem from the past

The Sears Tower is being eaten up by fog today! I’m just...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:39:00 -0500

The Sears Tower is being eaten up by fog today! I’m just grateful that it’s well below 100 degrees out.

theatlantic: The Dark Knight Spelunks: A Visual History of the...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:34:45 -0500

theatlantic:

The Dark Knight Spelunks: A Visual History of the Batcave