To raise money for an official Biomes mascot costume (an octopus of course), Graham has designed a t-shirt based on my old octopus "Ruby". We're selling it through Teespring and we need to reach our goal of 200 shirts sold or we get nothing. So I'm asking everyone to share this link to purchase a shirt.
There's a link in the shirt description to the NOVA episode Ruby and I were on. I think Graham did a nice job with the shirt:
Today’s long read is GQ’s piece on Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden, called The Man Who Knows Too Much. If you’ve been confused about this whole mess, this should clear things up a bit.
Amazingly, I find myself aligned with republicans on an issue. But for vastly different reasons (their’s involves crazy conspiracy theories will mine is based on common sense). I’d like to see Common Core disappear quickly and forever. Here’s a bit of rambling I wrote a while back explaining my motivation.
Hump day musical interlude: Traffic at Meskel Square in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Watch the pedestrians. It may be counterintuitive, and I could be way off base with this one, but I think the secret to this madness working is the complete absence of road rage.
WWI was 100 years ago. This photo essay (the first in an upcoming ten part series) in The Atlantic is amazing. Here’s the USS Nebraska in what was known as “dazzle camouflage”.
Study looks at best way to minimize backsplash while peeing.
I went through all 100 of Jordan Hoffman’s picks for the best sci-fi movies ever made. My choice for the number one slot is seventy-first on his list: James Caan’s Rollerball.