Reading Recommendation: Ed Yong at NatGeo Phenomena/Not Exactly Rocket Science gives us the scientific and factual Shark Week that Discovery Chanel couldn’t muster.
Image by Gerardo del Villar/Pacific Science.
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Reading Recommendation: Cryptogams [sic] and the NSA by John Sifton at warscapes. A satirical look at what happens when one man sets a literary trap for the NSA’s PRISM program. Hilarious. Thanks to buffleheadcabin for the link!
You’ll have to read to the end for an explanation of my “fungoalgaceous" photo illustration. Shown are fruticose lichen (Cladonia sp., but lacking the bright red caps called apothecia that give them their common name "British Soldiers”) and haircap moss (Polytrichum sp.). This photo was taken in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, and is previously unpublished.
Reading Recommendation: Cryptogams [sic] and the NSA by John Sifton at warscapes. A satirical look at what happens when one man sets a literary trap for the NSA’s PRISM program. Hilarious. Thanks to buffleheadcabin for the link!
You’ll have to read to the end for an explanation of my “fungoalgaceous" photo illustration. Shown are fruticose lichen (Cladonia sp., but lacking the bright red caps called apothecia that give them their common name "British Soldiers”) and haircap moss (Polytrichum sp.). This photo was taken in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, and is previously unpublished.
For isopod: A fine article by Nicholas Lund at Slate, “What the State Birds Should Be,” with notable improvements. Minnesota keeps the loon.
Image, 1982 U. S. postage stamps featuring state birds, with first class postage only 20¢. Please click to enlarge.
For isopod: A fine article by Nicholas Lund at Slate, “What the State Birds Should Be,” with notable improvements. Minnesota keeps the loon.
Image, 1982 U. S. postage stamps featuring state birds, with first class postage only 20¢. Please click to enlarge.
Reading Recommendation: David Dobbs on Fixing Healthcare, via Wired Science Blogs.
Reading Recommendation: David Dobbs on Fixing Healthcare, via Wired Science Blogs.
Sunday Reading Recommendation: City Birds Adapt to a New Enemy: Cats, by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish.
Illustration: Chat saisissant un oiseau, by Pablo Picasso, 1939. From the collections of the Musée Picasso in Paris, France.
Sunday Reading Recommendation: City Birds Adapt to a New Enemy: Cats, by Elizabeth Preston at Inkfish.
Illustration: Chat saisissant un oiseau, by Pablo Picasso, 1939. From the collections of the Musée Picasso in Paris, France.
Reading Recommendation: “The Vanishing Groves,” an essay on the durability and fragility of bristlecone pines by Ross Anderson at Aeon Magazine. Photo by Nick Paloukos, from the original post.
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