Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America
Jon Mooallem
“Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything.”
What an obscure endangered butterfly teaches us about parenthood, legacy, and being human
Wow, this book seems like it’ll be pretty depressing.
And I must get my hands on it!
When I ask for help on Twitter and nobody answers
Are you kidding me with this gif? How do I get this cat?!
“I’m E.O. Wilson, biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist, and author, most recently, of Letters to a Young Scientist. Ask me anything!”
What!
(via climateadaptation)
Arctic waters are home to many amazing animal species, including such whales as narwhals, belugas, and graceful bowheads. Today, researchers are using the travels and travails of these still-mysterious Arctic whales to illuminate the changing nature of Arctic sea ice as Earth warms.
On Thursday, May 30, join a bevy of explorers and researchers at the Museum for a special World Science Festival event: How Whales are Unlocking Arctic Secrets.
Image: Laura Morse/Courtesy of NOAA
Will be there!
In the arts mecca of New York City, subway buskers are often overqualified. But they’re not usually world-class jazz singers with the lungs and charisma of old-school soul stars. Accompanied only by a pianist, watch Gregory Porter perform “Be Good (Lion’s Song)” on a vintage subway car in downtown Brooklyn.
Filmed with WBGO.
(via capitalnewyork)
The cutest kitten gifs ever on tumblr
I cant
I got to the massage one and lost it.
“I’m just gonna work this knot-how’re you doing, friend?”
Help.
Oh. My.
(via atalantapendrag)
Ha!
(Source: victorianhooker, via feminist-space)
Just a whole lot of random stuff, but mostly photos, kittens, travel... A dash of politics (sometimes more than a dash), feminism, world views, animals, nature, books... Whatever catches my eye. I am a bit flighty. (A bit?)
Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano“Astronauts living on board the...
18/52 (by AJaaay)
Street harassment is not a compliment.
Hmmm…correlation??? Uh, yeah, maybe so!!!
And guess who makes up the majority of those...
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to tornado victim: “You gotta thank the lord”.
Victim: “I’m an atheist”
Rob Beschizza, boingboing.net
Oh, this...
Meet Mr. Camouflage, one of the special stars of sea life in the Lembeh Strait. I literally said “Whaaaaaaaat the f…” when I saw...
