I'm going to dump these links now because I'd hate to get distracted and forget 'em.
Not a fan of the stench-blossoms? Would you prefer a peckish plant? Jo(e) shares a story (and picture) about a vacation visit to darlingtonia californica, a carnivorous plant.
Think stench-blossoms are the only non-human lifeforms worthy of cool blogs? Check out the PigeonBlog that will (as part of ZeroOne San Jose) map air polution data gathered by sensor and GPS equipped pigeons.
And please, check out a timely phase diagram at Cosmic Variance. If I were still teaching P-chem, I could totally see putting this on an overhead.
Have a cool science link to dump? Tell us in the comments.
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