http://beirutraders.org/ A first-class Stumble – sadly, the first in a while, but I’ll take the good stuff when I can get it! Beautiful, captionless photographs of the stark and challenging environment that is Antarctica. You can practically hear the ice cracking.
Category Archives: Nature
English, Irish, Scots: They’re All One, Genes Suggest – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/science/05cnd-brits.html?em&ex=1173502800&en=5939111973945e32&ei=5087%0A Britain and Ireland are so thoroughly divided in their histories that there is no single word to refer to the inhabitants of both islands. Historians teach that they are mostly descended from different peoples: the Irish from the Celts, and the English from the Anglo-Saxons who invaded from northern Europe and drove the Celts […]
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http://www.jokeroo.com/extremevideos/invisible_octopus.html My dislike of Valentine’s Day is inversely proportional to my delight of octopi… You see now why sappy cards don’t work on me. Here, an octopus recreates a scene from Runaway Bride, where Julia Roberts gets cold feet and jets off in a cloud of ink. (It’s possible I’m remembering that wrong.)
Hellio Photo Nature
http://www.hellio.com/ Yes, I realise they’re probably grooming each other for fleas, but damnit, this is cute anyway!