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Archives for August, 2009
Äidinrakkaus
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 29, 2009 tags: art, statue, sculpture, mare and foal, Helsinki, Finland, cities, nature Äidinrakkaus (Maternal Love) Bronze sculpture (1927) by sculptor Emil Cedercreutz (1879 – 1949). Photographed at Varsapuistikko, at the corner of Unioninkatu and Kaisaniemenkatu, Kluuvi, in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I love this sculpture. Does anyone know who…
Mystery Bird: Common Bulbul, Pycnonotus barbatus
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 29, 2009 tags: Common Bulbul, Pycnonotus barbatus, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Common Bulbul, also known as the Pepperbird among other names, Pycnonotus barbatus, photographed in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, Africa. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Image: Dan Logen, 7 August 2006 [larger view]. Nikon D2X, 200-400 VR lens…
Dan Savage on How to Come out to your Evangelical Family
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 29, 2009 tags: coming out, sex advice, homosexuality, evangelical families, Dan Savage, streaming video Dan Savage moved to Seattle while I lived there and began writing a sex advice column for The Stranger. I never missed reading his column because he was honest and accurate and entertaining. Regardless of where in the world I’ve been since, I…
Scientia Pro Publica Needs YOU!
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 29, 2009 Image: wemidji (Jacques Marcoux). Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power) – Sir Francis Bacon. Scientia Pro Publica (Science for the People) is a blog carnival that celebrates the best science, nature and medical writing targeted specifically to the public that has been published in the blogosphere within the past…
Update: Antarctic Vote Count
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 29, 2009 The current Antarctic Trip Vote count is as follows; 5015 – 1814 – 1558 – 1202 – 1117 out of 528 candidates registered. I am in third place and sloooowly creeping up on second place. With less than 6 weeks remaining (especially if the Quark site crashes), voting is changing rapidly as previous voters reassign…
NYC Area Cricket Crawl
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 28, 2009 The cricket sang, And set the sun, And workmen finished, one by one, Their seam the day upon. The low grass loaded with the dew, The twilight stood as strangers do With hat in hand, polite and new, To stay as if, or go. A vastness, as a neighbor, came,– A wisdom without face or…
Bumblebee on my Hand
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 28, 2009 tags: bumblebee, Helsinki, Finland, cities, nature Bumblebee on my hand. Photographed in Helsinki, Finland. Image: GrrlScientist, 23 July 2009 [larger view]. (raw image) I am sure I must have looked like I was insane when, walking down the sidewalk, I spied this bumblebee sitting on the concrete. I plopped myself down onto my hands and…
Wild Parrot Safari in NYC
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 28, 2009 tags: birds, parrots, Quaker Parrot, Monk ParakeetGrey-Breasted parakeet, Myiopsitta monachus, NYC events, NYC Life, Brooklyn, Wild Parrot Safari Monk Parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus) Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Image: Magnus Manske, 10 May 2008, Wikipedia [larger view] Even though NYC is located in the armpit of hell where, during the summers, the air is a humid…
Breaking News: Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 28, 2009 tags: Onion News Network, ONN, detainee torture, humor, funny, satire, fucking hilarious, streaming video In The Know panelists discuss the closing of the controversial detainee labyrinth and debate whether the Minotaur’s sternum-stomping-by-hooves interrogation technique yielded valuable intelligence.
Mystery Bird: Ross’s Goose, Chen rossii
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on August 28, 2009 tags: Ross’s Goose, Chen rossii, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz [Mystery bird] Ross’s Goose, Chen rossii, photographed at Tom Bass Park, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you in 48 hours] Image: Joseph Kennedy, 11 August 2009 [larger view]. Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope with TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/1000s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.…