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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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DEAR READER
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Stranger Things
almost home
KIROKAZE
$LAYYYTER
AnasAbdin
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@theartofmadeline
Claire Keane
we're not kids anymore.
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Mike Driver
Keni
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@pantslessparadise
This is awesome creature is the caterpillar form of Phylllodes imperialis, the Imperial Fruit Sucking Moth. The moth is found in parts of Australia and a few neighbouring island countries. The markings on its head that resemble a mask sporting giant eyes and a wonderfully freaky skeletal grin are used to frighten off potential predators.
Photos by plant.nerd
[via Geekologie]
WHOA.
To Snap A Predator: The Patented Tech That Helps Photographers Go Nose-to-Nose With Sharks
Michael Muller is fascinated with sharks. Ever since he was a kid, surfing in Northern California, he’s loved the creatures — Great Whites, in particular. And Michael Muller, fortunately for us, is also a professional photographer. He has snapped pictures of sharks from all around the world, including the seas of the Galapagos, South Africa, Fiji, and Guadalupe Island.
But how do you actually capture the kind of amazing — and tantalizingly, terrifyingly close-up — images that Muller has? In a Q&A with the blog Feature Shoot, Muller described the self-developed technology that allows him to conduct photo shoots with some of the most frightening, and beautiful, subjects on the planet. To get pictures like his, you may not need a bigger boat. But you will need a better camera.
Read more. [Images: Michael Muller]
The U.S. suffers from staggering economic inequality — as staggering, in some places, as Nigeria, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Richard Florida ran the numbers and compared cities in the U.S. to highly unequal foreign countries. That colorful map might look pretty, but its implications for U.S. income inequality are not.
Most of my family members from the Dominican Rep. after busting their asses to get here to the U.S. say ‘I don’t see the difference’ shortly after the bright lights and fake dreams fade,
Obama's Secret Weapon In The South: Small, Dead, But Still Kickin'
Would you believe that this image has as much to do with plankton and slavery as the 2008 presidential election?
I know people are up in arms about "binders full of women" (or in stitches due to the resulting meme barrage), but this is so much more interesting, I promise. Politics and history and paleobiology and agriculture all in one!
No big deal, just an illustration from a peer-reviewed research paper about the untimely demise of a long-dead giant panda that suggests they used to have a much larger habitat.
Link to the paper at Boing Boing, but really this figure is all you need.
So many lulz!
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History // 9.2.2012
Pretty sure these are some of the best photos I've ever taken. :)
Rodeo Cove, Golden Gate NRA // 7.22.12
Coral Reef Eye Candy
Who needs Finding Nemo 3D* when the real thing is so much better? Take a moment to TGIF and watch this collection of coral reef footage shot around Fiji and Tonga. These exotic forms and immeasurable beauty are an always-needed reminder to the awesome power of evolution.
In case you missed it yesterday, you can help catalog the upper Atlantic coast’s marine species with Seafloor Explorer, a citizen science game/project from the Galaxy Zoo folks.
*I’m still gonna see it, no matter how great this video is :)
(via Deep Sea News)
Absolutely brilliant.
From last week, but relevant. To Egypt/Libya/US politics/pretty much everything.
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Is it too late for everyone to just be friends?
Yesterday one of my students (age 6) was spelling F-U-C-K out loud. Today, a kid spilled a giant cup of water on himself.
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Unapologetically blasting '80s music that everyone loves to hate? Okay.
July 2012: Singapore Malaysia Thailand from mujipanda on Vimeo.
A trip that started in Singapore, took us to Penang and Bangkok by train, Krabi by bus, and a lot of boat rides in between
Music: Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa - The Winner Is Shot using a Fujifilm X10 and an iPhone 4S
jtotheizzoe:
Martian Sol 2: Curiosity Panorama - Cool Update!
One of the newly-released panoramic images from the Mars Curiosity rover was stitched together into an interactive version by Andrew Bodrov. Check out the interactive version here, and go hang out in Gale Crater for a while. Full screen is quite a pleasing experience.
Sorry for the self-reblog, but I had to share this with you guys.
First off, if you’re on your computer, click the link above and have fun touring Mars. This update isn’t for you.
Are you on your iPhone or iPad? Click this link, open it in Safari, and … wow.
Just wow.
This is the coolest.
When the heck did it get to be August?!?
Kicking back into gear.
every time i listen to npr
Yup.
I also imagine Lakshmi Singh to be supremely attractive.
the postgrad life: malaysia.
"Do you know what you're doing after you graduate?" - I've been asked this very question at least one hundred times in the last month or so, and I am absolutely thankful that I do know (not least because it'd be horribly depressing if I didn't. Also, it's nice that people care, but I think I speak for all of the Class of 2012 when I say I'm downright sick of being asked that question.)
The answer: I will be teaching English in Malaysia as a Fulbright Scholarship English Teaching Assistant (ETA)! In case you're not familiar, the Fulbright Program is a prestigious program administered by the US State Department that allows one to study, conduct research, or teach abroad for a year. For ETAs in Malaysia, it's a 30 hour a week gig in one of three states, Terengganu, Pahang, or Johor, mostly teaching English, with other responsibilities depending on the school I'm placed in. I don't have much else in the way of details - I don't even know where in the country I'll be! - but for now I can say that I will have a Malaysian mailing address from January to November 2013!
Because Malaysian ETAs don't start until January, they said they'd notify me anywhere from early March to late May, which is really just a way of saying they'll torture you while they make a decision. Fortunately, I found out in late March, so the waiting wasn't all that bad. UNfortunately, as ecstatic as I was that I got the Fulbright, this posed a serious challenge to my well-being, seeing as the last month of college was the busiest and most taxing period of my life by at least double - it's extremely difficult to focus and write a 42 page thesis, for example, when you've got one eye halfway around the world.
In the past few months, I've been asked, "Why Fulbright?" a lot. Truthfully, I realized some time ago that my two (sad, I know) marketable skills are neuroscience research and teaching. I've been doing lab research for the last two and a half years and will likely go to grad school to do research for another 5-6 years (oh boy!), so I was pretty set on the idea of taking a year or two off to do something different - i.e. teaching.
People also ask me, "Why Malaysia??" I've got an answer for that, too. I have never taken a Romance language, ruling out Europe/South and Central America, nor Arabic or Hebrew, nixing the Middle East/North Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa doesn't really do the Fulbright ETAs, just research. So basically, Asia. At some point early on in figuring out post-college plans, I had the romantic fantasy of backpacking/scuba diving/eating delicious food in Southeast Asia. Among Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, Malaysia appealed to me the most because of 1) the superb clash of cultures and customs (especially with Islam), 2) the fact that Malaysia is the most developed country (after Singapore) in the region but still has pockets of extreme poverty, and 3) the 75 ETA grants, as opposed to 25 or fewer in the other three countries (not gonna lie, this was a factor).
Needless to say, I'm pretty excited. :)
Sparknotes Version: Brian is going to Malaysia to teach English! Hooray!
