January 18, 2010 @ 6:45 pm | Filed under: Links
- Craft Hope by crafthope on Etsy – “All proceeds of the Craft Hope Etsy shop will benefit Doctors Without Borders in Haiti. All items have been generously donated by the crafting community. If you’d like to donate an item please visit the Craft Hope website (www.crafthope.com).”
- FT.com / Reportage – Moscow’s stray dogs – “Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the carriage was crowded, and then exit a few stops later.”
- Cybils: REVIEW The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner – “This Scientists in the Field title is about Berkeley professor Tyrone Hayes and his research into the effects of pesticides on frogs.” TBR!
- Flying Bicycle Lane Lets You Soar Above Traffic | Inhabitat – Can you imagine?
- What America owes to Haiti | Cranach: The Blog of Veith – “So if you are glad America’s independence was not snuffed out shortly after birth, and if you are glad you are not ruled by the French, and if you live in what used to be the Louisiana Purchase, thank the Haitians.”
engineering, Haiti, Handcrafts, nature, russia, TBR, Technology
October 11, 2008 @ 1:43 pm | Filed under: Nature Study, Photos, Southern California
My blogroll is bursting lately with beautiful autumn posts and pictures. After so many years on the East Coast, I’m still not used to fall here in Southern California.
Around here, autumn is blue and green
and hot pink
and candy-apple red
and sunny gold.
It’s definitely fall, though: nippy mornings, Santa-Ana-hot afternoons, fruits ripening on the neighbors’ trees.
The bees here are pink and white this time of year, did you know that?
This one could be a New England forest floor carpeted with pine needles
but really it’s a close-up of a palm tree’s trunk.
Ah, here’s an honest-to-goodness autumn color shot:
This one seems more like spring-comes-to-the-woods than suburban-yard-in-October.
But these are San Diego’s true colors:
We took these photos on a walk around the block earlier this week.
It wore some of us out.
May 6, 2008 @ 9:03 pm | Filed under: Links
- YouTube – Battle at Kruger – I’m sure this one is going to make the rounds. Buffalo cub captured by lions; the herd returns for a faceoff! I’m thinking we’d better not let the cows get a load of this. If they decide to go on the offensive, we’re all sunk. Also: cameo by alligator! Unbelievable. HT: my friend Karen M.
Africa, animals, nature, Science
March 26, 2008 @ 4:02 am | Filed under: Links
- Dolphin rescues stranded whales – CNN.com – Well if that isn’t just the coolest thing ever!
March 25, 2008 @ 6:41 pm | Filed under: Links
- Discovery News : Gigantic Antarctic Ice Chunk Collapses – An ice chunk the size of Manhattan has broken off the Wilkins ice shelf.
- The Wal-Mart You Don’t Know | Fast Company
- Hobbit socks! – Boing Boing -
