It’s Friday! And that means my top pins of the week – or at least, it means a handful of pins I’ve randomly selected out of the probable-hundreds I’ve stress-pinned this week :’D With no further ado, this week’s selection, for your perusing pleasure <3 (Some of them are cut off in the gallery below […]
‘Flagellated protozoan’Is the best rhyme I can findFor ‘trying to write a poem’How amusing ‘Flagellated protozoan’Seems to mean ‘a little creatureThat is never found in poem’ –How confusing And it isn’t really rhyming And the rhythm is all outA stupendous lack of timingShows throughout it And the harder that I ponderAnd the longer that I tryThe
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Sooo this is pretty cool. IDK if you know or not, but inventing actual blue pigments that work and don’t kill you is actually SUPER hard. Blue isn’t very common in nature, and throughout history it’s been a pretty rare and valuable pigment as a result. That’s not the REASON I used blue as the
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Stumbled across this video earlier in the week and thought it was interesting enough to share. The video sliiiiightly simplifies the situation – I actually did a paper on this during university! – but it’s a clear enough introduction to the topic if it’s not something you’re familiar with. So. Why DIDN’T Ancient Greek have
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My sister rang me at about 5pm to let me know exciting news: the International Space Station was due to pass directly overhead at 6pm! Hurrah! So I set a phone alarm (being notorious at keeping an eye on the time otherwise) and at 5:50pm, we duly bundled up in shoes and coats and headed
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Random biology this week, since I feel like we haven’t done that in a while. Today, we’re talking about this critter: In most of Australia, we call them Slater beetles or Slater bugs, but they have a whole host of names around the world – often riffing on the ‘bug’ theme. HOWEVER. I just discovered
The 14-Legged Crustacean With A Pouch And No Pee?? Read More »
On the theme of random animals who sing unexpectedly, apparently fish also sing. You can click through here to hear it! This recording has a bunch of different fish singing together, somewhat like frogs do, and–like other animals–apparently fish tend to sing more at dawn and dusk too! So random. So cool. B-) Read more:Animator
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I clicked lethargically on this video last weekend, planning to maybe watch the first one or three. Plot twist: I watched the whole thing, because these rock formations are freaking gorgeous, you guys. Check them out, and check out of life for a pleasant seven minutes on a Friday 🙂 What awesome things have you
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I mean, just, like, one or two tears. But I uploaded How To Create Cultures to the printers today, and in 24-48 hours I should be able to order a physical proof copy. The book is done, you guys. The map I drew for it may have taken 5 hours to draw and process (no
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Whoa, I’m, like, so shocked: new study ‘reveals’ that growing up with a large* home library results in significantly improved literacy, numeracy, and digital communication skills! 😱😱 No way!! 📚📚📚 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/…/growing-surrounded-books…/… * “Average” = 80 books in the house, large = ‘more than that’, with numbers over 350 not having any further discernible impact. (Curious:
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