February 2012
16 posts
3 tags
Why wasn’t Morgan Freeman clapping??
Feb 27th
2 tags
Feb 27th
33,179 notes
4 tags
Feb 27th
143 notes
5 tags
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
– Jacques Yves Cousteau  (via mad-as-a-marine-biologist) What else needs to be said?
Feb 27th
78 notes
4 tags
Feb 20th
1,096 notes
4 tags
Feb 19th
7,922 notes
6 tags
Feb 17th
4 notes
3 tags
Feb 16th
3 notes
4 tags
Hacked! - Magazine - The Atlantic →
What about the rest of us, who are not security professionals? I asked that of every person I interviewed. Many of their recommendations boiled down to the hope that people would think more about their life online. “We’d like people to view their information life the way they view other parts of their life,” Andrew Kovacs of Google said. “It’s a good practice to review your financial...
Feb 16th
4 tags
Feb 15th
56,196 notes
5 tags
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native... →
………………………………………………………………. What the fuck is happening in the US?
Feb 15th
2 tags
Feb 15th
30 notes
5 tags
Feb 14th
713 notes
3 tags
Feb 14th
180 notes
4 tags
Delusions of Grandeur: Why Susan G. Komen Yanked... →
hotsportsopinions: Pro-“life” activists are like cancer: they’re ubiquitous, often go undetected until their damage is irreversible, and heartbreakingly detrimental to women’s health. Which is why it’s so mind-blowing that one of the country’s most powerful and well-known cancer charities has teamed up with… A must read.
Feb 2nd
500 notes
2 tags
I stand with Planned Parenthood.
Feb 2nd
2 notes
January 2012
35 posts
2 tags
Jan 30th
265 notes
7 tags
Jan 28th
14 notes
4 tags
Jan 27th
31,080 notes
5 tags
“I owe my livelihood to technology and I love the raw capability it offers us as...”
– Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter I agree with a lot of this article, though not all of it. It’s really worth a read, especially if you are immersed in the Internet and social media, as I am.
Jan 27th
2 notes
3 tags
Jan 26th
2,790 notes
3 tags
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space,...”
– Stephen Hawking
Jan 26th
6 notes
4 tags
Jan 26th
70 notes
3 tags
“I said it yesterday, and I will say it again: Maurice Sendak for President.”
– Maurice Sendak, Stephen Colbert get high on Magic Markers: The brilliant second half of the “Colbert Report” interview | New York Daily News Ha! Oh man, how much did I love these interviews?
Jan 26th
2 notes
4 tags
RTÉ.ie Radio 1: Documentary on One - Conversations... →
What the Dublin Zoo sounds like at night (with commentary). This was freaky and amazing. I really loved all the wolves. I want to live on a zoo property!
Jan 26th
2 notes
3 tags
WatchWatch
dailyotter: Last week we brought you news of a just-born otter pup at the Seattle Aquarium—and now we can tell you it’s a girl! Above is footage of mother Aniak’s handing off the pup for her first veterinary exam. Seattle Aquarium’s spokesman Tim Kuniholm writes: Through positive reinforcement Aniak has been allowing us to weigh the pup and do some minimal handling the last few days. So this...
Jan 26th
255 notes
6 tags
Jan 26th
25 notes
5 tags
Jan 25th
70 notes
5 tags
Jan 24th
391 notes
5 tags
Jan 23rd
88 notes
9 tags
Jan 19th
3 notes
3 tags
Jan 18th
1,517 notes
4 tags
Jan 17th
411 notes
3 tags
“We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less...”
– The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
Jan 13th
6 notes
3 tags
I’m watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (some weird one from 1997) and screaming at the “marine biologist” that you’re not supposed to touch the coral! It kills them! And wtf was up with the ridiculous shark scene?
Jan 13th
12 notes
4 tags
Jan 12th
19,067 notes
3 tags
Jan 12th
129 notes
6 tags
Jan 12th
337 notes
3 tags
Jan 11th
1,245 notes
5 tags
Field Test: Biodiversity - The Great American Zoo... →
I’m loving these dispatches from photographer Joel Sartore as he goes around the country photographing animals in zoos for his Biodiversity Project. The photos, of course, are fantastic, but I really enjoy reading the behind the scenes stuff.
Jan 11th
6 notes
6 tags
Jan 11th
40 notes
2 tags
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
Jan 11th
1,891 notes
4 tags
Great Zoo Posters Created for the WPA
mentalflossr: Lots more here. These are pretty cool!
Jan 11th
35 notes
3 tags
Getting pretty excited about my upcoming trip to Hawaii!!
Jan 11th
5 notes
4 tags
Jan 10th
71 notes
4 tags
Jan 9th
1,147 notes
5 tags
Jan 9th
39 notes
6 tags
WatchWatch
(via Richard Pyle dives the reef’s Twilight Zone | Video on TED.com) Fantastic video. Really fascinating, even though it’s from 2004. Reminding me that I have so many TED videos to catch up on. Also, who doesn’t love a fish (or any kind of animal) nerd!
Jan 7th
11 notes
6 tags
The Race to Document Biodiversity - NYTimes.com →
Biodiversity is earth’s greatest library, and we have not matured enough as a species, as a civilization, to realize it yet. Someday soon we will understand how to read the secrets contained within the Biodiversity Library. Unfortunately, we are on the brink of this planet’s sixth great extinction event, and each time a species goes extinct, it is like burning the last copy of a book. Once it is...
Jan 7th
64 notes
3 tags
“Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a...”
– 2011’s Most Absurd Quotes About Women And the folks who said them, including this quote listed here.  (via huffingtonpost) (The gem above was Richard effing Dawkins.)
Jan 4th
30 notes