March 15, 2010 at 4:14 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Take a look at this lovely and cute collection of miniature copies of some animals, like the horse. Several breeds of horse are less than three feet tall!
People sometimes train them as service animals (be the first on your block with a “Seeing Eye Horse”), and even as house pets, since I presume they make tiny road apples. However, they are still horses when it comes down to it, and their natural reaction to being scared is to run like hell, so they won’t be replacing your Black Lab anytime soon for those long walks in the woods playing fetch.
Link – via weirdworm
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March 15, 2010 at 12:09 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Murrine glass is an art form using glass that is formed by layering colors and stretching the hot glass into a cane. Then the cane is cut into cross sections, exposing the colors and patterns inside. Robert Wiener is revolutionizing Murrine glass art. Using a spectrum of layered glass and a artistic mind, he creates some of the most innovative and inspirational pieces.
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Original post by Queuebot
March 15, 2010 at 12:09 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Murrine glass is an art form using glass that is formed by layering colors and stretching the hot glass into a cane. Then the cane is cut into cross sections, exposing the colors and patterns inside. Robert Wiener is revolutionizing Murrine glass art. Using a spectrum of layered glass and a artistic mind, he creates some of the most innovative and inspirational pieces.
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Original post by Queuebot
March 15, 2010 at 12:01 am · Filed under Uncategorized
After all that work, you’ll want to plant good seeds. Glenn Beck approved seeds, ideally. Well, Stephen Colbert is right on board, aware that in a disaster, we’ll all want raddichio. He’s even started his own crisis herb garden, because, “I may be ready for a world where the streets run with blood, and zombies rule the night and feast on human flesh. But I refuse to live in a world where I can’t garnish.”
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Original post by Sharon Astyk none@example.com
March 14, 2010 at 8:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The Wildlife Conservation Society took a two-year survey of wildlife biodiversity in the Jeypore-Dehing rain forest in India, and found seven different cat species in a 354-square-mile area. This is the highest diversity of cats ever found in a single area. Camera traps in the rain forest have captures pictures of leopards, the clouded leopard (pictured), the leopard cat, the Asiatic golden cat, the jungle cat, tigers, and the marbled cat. Link -via Digg
(image credit: Kashmira Kakati)
Original post by Miss Cellania
March 14, 2010 at 8:00 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Take a whiff of mustard or wasabi and you’ll be hit with a familiar burning sensation. That’s the result of chemicals in these pungent foods hitting a protein called TRPA1, a molecular alarm that warns us about irritating substances. The same protein does a similar job in other animals, but rattlesnakes and vipers have put their version of TRPA1 to a more impressive and murderous purpose. They use it to sense the body heat of their prey.
Pit vipers are famed for their ability to detect the infrared radiation given off by warm-blooded prey, and none more so than the western diamondback rattlesnake. Its skills are so accurate that it can detect its prey at distances of up to a metre, and strike at objects just 0.2C warmer than the surrounding temperature. Against such abilities, darkness is no defence.
Like all pit vipers, the rattlesnake’s sixth sense depends on two innocuous pits [...]
Original post by Ed Yong none@example.com
March 14, 2010 at 8:00 pm · Filed under 48372
Camilla Long’s appallingly bad op-ed piece about personal genomics in the Times is a true masterpiece of unsupported criticism, and an ode to willful ignorance.
I’d encourage readers to discover their own favourite errors and misconceptions (there are plenty to go around), but here are some of the more glaring flaws:
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Original post by Daniel MacArthur none@example.com
March 14, 2010 at 7:01 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
The photo above was taken by a visitor to the Zurich zoo, who observed a zebra placing its head in the mouth of a hippopotamus.
But the hippo had no intention of having the zebra for lunch – it was having its teeth cleaned… the teeth-cleaning session lasted 15 minutes and the zebra came to no harm.
Link. Photo: Jill Sonsteby/Solent News.
Original post by Minnesotastan
March 14, 2010 at 6:30 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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Original post by Eric Michael Johnson none@example.com
March 14, 2010 at 5:28 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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You might recall Sir David Attenborough introducing us to the lyrebird, a master of mimcry (and later the wonderful remix). Chook the lyrebird lives at the Adelaide Zoo. After a period of construction at the zoo, Chook was able to recreate the sounds of hammers, saws, and power tools exactly. Link -via Arbroath
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