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How to make a baby, is an amusing live stop motion short filmed during a couple's pregnancy.
Geek Stuff: The three classes of geekdom.
Play! Avoider. Try to keep your cursor safe.
Cool Site of the Week: The medieval bestiary. Animals of the middle ages.
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Animal of the week: The chambered nautilus. This one is a specimen that was given to me by a guy who captive breeds them. It arrived very late last night and I was up most of the night acclimating it to my tank. It is without doubt one of the coolest animals ever, and has remained unchanged for over 500 million years. To give that some perspective, that’s about 300 million years before the first dinosaur arose.
Take a very in-depth photo tour of the solar system. Part I. Part II.
Tuesday coonhound blogging: Creole enjoys one of the first warm days of spring (click to embiggen).
If you say Jesus backwards it sounds like sausage.
Now we’re cookin’: Fantastic chocolate sculptures.
Welcome to the East African Wild Life Society.
Stuff you should know: How swans work.
Today’s slide show is about bizarre ways to beat stress and unwind.
Really, the camera adds ten pounds. I had no idea the local Providence paper had this video up on their website.
You can use this mold to make your pears grow in the shape of buddha.
Cool site of the week: Human motion sculptures.
The words “no signal” has been used in sixty-six films, usually as a way of stranding the victims from the outside world.
Geek Stuff: What stormtroopers do on their days off.
As bad as that orca/trainer altercation was a few months back, working with marine mammals isn’t nearly as risky as working with elephants.
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Animal of the Week: The newly discovered strawberry crab.
113 countries have signed a treaty to protect endangered migratory shark species.
Meet the Superplexus. At $30,000 it’s a pretty expensive toy.
Watch a year in the rockies, a time lapse art video.
Find out what your heart will do today.
Now we’re cookin’: Insanewiches.
I drink about two liters of seltzer water each day, so it’s good to find out that the rumor that carbonated beverages cause calcium depletion is a myth. Unless the drink is coke or pepsi. You can make your own seltzer at home using the soda stream, but the stuff is so cheap at the store I’m not sure why you’d bother.
Yesterday's trivia answer is a graveyard for retired aircraft in Tucson. 12 points for knucklehead.
”Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language.
Trivia (12 Biomes points): What’s this a picture of? It was taken by a Google Earth satellite.
Researchers are finding that people get happier as they age.
The debunking of the argument of fine-tuning. The false idea that the universe is perfectly set up for life is a terrible justification for god’s existence.
Hump Tues day musical Interlude: There's no "s" in the title.Albino Monday: An albino civet cat with a skin disease is not a chupacabra (thanks Hans).
Looks like Norway is the best place in the world to live.
Gino the Minnow is a new environmental book for children. The author emailed me to promote it, so I figured I’d mention it here.
If you have a new iPad, you can wrap it in a bacon case.
The Brazilian grape tree, known as a Jabuticaba, grows fruit on its trunk.
Buy your eye trauma contact lenses here.
This week’s Green Thing is the Nokia Green Phone, which uses a bio-battery that is sugar-based.
Sixteen things you didn’t know about the automobile.
I need a bigger taste of spring, so watching this time lapse video of a rose blooming was a good thing.
Morford: One sandwich to kill you all.
Today’s slide show is a series of photos of my animals that a visitor sent me. This one is Grendal. She died this week at the age of 24 after suffering from severe arthritis in her spine, which is pretty old for an iguana.
Ninety-three year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived Hiroshima, fled home to Nagasaki, and survived that blast as well. He spent 16 years in bandages recovering from his injuries.
Pet Corner: I’ve been searching for years for a pet hair remover, and I’ve never tried anything that works on rugs, car seats or furniture. Here it is. It’s made by Pledge and I tried it on a whim. My only issue with it is that it’s disposable, not reusable. But it works extremely well. You can buy one here, but they are half this much at a pharmacy.
This guide to photography rules is very helpful.
Genesis revisited is Micheal Shermer’s take on the science of intelligent design.
Geek Stuff: A Klingon language keyboard.
Play! xkcd had this tetris comic called “Hell”. Then someone made this game you can actually play.
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