Do you or someone you know love chameleons and lizards? Have one as a pet? Then this is a must-have for your cabinet drawers! Fully 3-dimensional, this striped chameleon is accurately reproduced from nature and is painstakingly hand carved and cast in genuine pewter. An unusual and beautiful piece of hardware sure to last — via Etsy
The world’s smartest Octopus shoot humans, an octopus taking photos with the Sony Cyber-shot TX30 — via Youtube
ok.
i was doing some tv stuff at universal and i found myself wandering around with some time to kill and lo and behold i was in ye olde timey western land. and that’s architecture, isn’t it?
it is. and specifically southern californian architecture, as i don’t know if other cities have plywood ghost towns in their midst(s).
so, plywood ghost towns. and a plywood mexican village. to be fair, there’s plaster, too. plywood and plaster.
it’s like a grad student thesis on architectural semiotics and the folly of follies.
i hope you get a chance to wander around plywood ghost towns some day.
it’s odd — via moby
Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus haemastoma) and Scribbly Gum (Eucalyptus haemastoma) originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Three Lion cubs born at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo on 28 February had their first veterinary visit this week, and all were pronounced healthy and strong — via ZooBorns
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The larger the ring size the longer the two shooter tentacles will be. Ruby eyes. Sterling silver — via Etsy
The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is happy to announce the birth of twin African Pygmy Goat kids. The kids, one male and one female, were born, 10 March, to the Zoo’s African Pygmy Goat pair, Lex
and Lois
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The man promoting the Government’s Intergenerational Report, ABC science commentator Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, has backed away from the document, describing it as flawed
.
Released every five years, the report provides a snapshot of how the nation might look in 40 years, covering everything from population size and life expectancy to public spending and the size of future budget deficits.
Dr Kruszelnicki appears in a number of advertisements promoting the report on television and radio, in newspapers and on social media, but he is now criticising the report’s reduced focus on climate change.
I did it on the grounds that it would be not for any political party but for the Government of Australia as a non-political, bipartisan, independent report,
he told the ABC’s AM program.
He said he was only able to read parts of the report before he agreed to the ads as the rest was under embargo.
Despite assurances otherwise, Dr Kruszelnicki now believes he put his name and reputation to a report that is highly political and which largely ignores the impact of climate change — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This ring depicts the epic encounter of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), and the giant squid (several species in the genus Architeuthis), as they grapple in the abyss. This primal encounter between indomitable Leviathan, and the mysterious Kraken has long stirred our collective imaginations, and now you can wear it on your hand — via Etsy
A scientific notebook compiled by World War Two codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1m in New York.
It is one of very few manuscripts from the head of the team that cracked the Germans’ Enigma code.
The handwritten notes, dating from 1942 when he worked at Bletchley Park, were entrusted to mathematician Robin Gandy after Turing’s death.
The notebook was sold at Bonhams for $1,025,000 (£700,850) to an unnamed buyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Each Bag is hand screen printed, so each bag is a little bit different — via Etsy
Purdah also applies to civil servants, who basically can’t do anything public for weeks. All the government departments’ Twitter and Facebook accounts will be going very quiet… — via Youtube
Cotswold Wildlife Park celebrated an incredible milestone, recently. First-time mother, Ruby
, gave birth to the Park’s first male White Rhino. The comparatively tiny calf is healthy and nursing well from Ruby, who is proving to be an exceptional mother — via ZooBorns
Cisco’s suffered a legal reversal in Australia, where the nation’s Trade Marks Office has ruled the logo of Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is not an attempt to imitate or cash in on the Borg’s bridge badge.
CSIRO’s logo is supposed to be a stylised map of Australia. Cisco’s reimagining of the Golden Gate bridge and/or an graph is well known.
Cisco objected to the CSIRO’s application to trademark its logo. The Borg’s beef seems to have been that the colours and wave design in both logos are similar and therefore perhaps confusing to punters. That CSIRO’s desire to have its logo classified as pertaining to software and “telecommunications” didn’t help either.
CSIRO has form in the latter field: astronomers there did the basic work that led to the creation of WiFi and the organisation has scooped hundreds of millions in patent royalties from technology companies, including Cisco. The case therefore has an ironic element, as Cisco makes millions from WiFi kit every year — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Four foot long squid plush. Made to order, and stuffed with hypo-allergenic polyester fibre. Colour refers to the fleece body and pattern refers to the underside of the squid. Patterns for the underside will be matched to compliment the colour of the squid unless otherwise specified — via Etsy
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