grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, politics, satire, humor, streaming video
Sarah Palin: This streaming video provides an overview of her experience that makes her the most qualified human being in America to be the vice presidential candidate for the Republican ticket. This shows that all Republicans with an IQ over 100 have wisely abandoned the party long ago [5:38]
grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: God is Hate, christians are haters, religion is organized hate, religion, fundamentalists are everywhere, mindcontrol
The above letter was spoofed and supposedly signed by Alice Shannon of Soldotna, Alaska, and republished by DIGG. However, the original letter was published in the newspaper, The Augusta Chronicle on Monday, October 22, 2001, when all the good religionists in the area were pondering the role of a gawd-inspired terrorist act: the destruction of the World Trade Towers, portions of the Pentagon and the downing of an airliner in an Pennsylvania cornfield -- which…
grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, politics, satire, humor, streaming video
Sarah Palin cannot tell the truth if you held a moose gun to her head, and she proves it while standing in front of her own fellow morons, spouting lies that can easily be proven wrong. Do we want a lying misogynistic asshole like this in the White House, representing this nation to the world? [3:48]
grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin's Kanye West remix, politics, satire, humor, music video, streaming video
Sarah Palin is a contestant on the new game show, Are you Smarter than a Fifth Grader? [1:07]
grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Female Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, photographed at the east end of Galveston Island, Texas. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Joseph Kennedy, 16 April 2007 [larger view].
Nikon D200, Kowa 883 telescope TSN-PZ camera eyepiece 1/125s f/8.0 at 1000.0mm iso400.
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
Hard to image anything plainer. But that very plainness -- plus the odd hint…
grrlscientist | November 4, 2008tags: Ringnecked parakeet, Rose-Ringed Parrot, Psittacula krameri, talking parrot, parrots, behavior, streaming video
This video shows Tajj, a male Ringneck parakeet talking with his human. Ring-necked parakeets are also known as Rose-Ringed Parrots, Psittacula krameri, due to the colorful ring on the males' neck. There are four subspecies, distinguished mostly by size, that originate from regions in both India and Africa. This is a sweet video that shows the affection that can develop between a parrot and his human [1:17]
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Revelers (2007).
Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms.
I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried.
Image: GrrlScientist 9 September 2008 [larger view].
I have photographed glass tile…
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin in her own words, politics, satire, humor, streaming video
Sarah Palin's greatest hits: Proof that all a woman needs to succeed in America is a pretty face and a tight ass [5:46]
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, Prankin Sarah Palin, politics, satire, humor, streaming video
Sarah Palin is as stupid and gullible as she is arrogant and .. erm, intellectually gifted -- don't forget this when you are standing in the polling booth tomorrow [6:02]
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Pipestone Canyon Valley, Cascade Mountain Range, Winthrop Washington, landscape, nature, photography, Image of the Day
On the road between the small mountain hamlet of Winthrop, Washington state, to Pipestone Canyon Valley, a few miles north of Winthrop in the North Cascade Mountain Range in Washington.
Image: David W. Morgan, 25 October 2008 [larger view].
The photographer, David Morgan, writes;
I am sending some pictures I took while on a fossil collecting trip this past Saturday. The [above image was] taken just a few miles north of Winthrop, WA while exploring the Pipestone…
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Birds in the News, BirdNews, ornithology, birds, avian, newsletter
European Bee-eater pair, Merops apiaster.
She's still hungry, but not yet willing to mate. So the male bee-eater takes wing
to find more food. When he returns, "the female nearly always accepts the
offering, quickly eating," reports British ornithologist C. Hilary Fry. If his
courtship is successful, he'll continue to bring her prey through the
egg-laying period. Both parents deliver meals to their chicks.
Image: Jözsef L. Szentpéteri/National Geographic online [larger view].
Birds in Science
Raising young can be…
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin's Kanye West remix, politics, satire, humor, music video, streaming video
Sarah Palin sings a song about Barack Obama .. "he's a hypnotizer" .. [2:29]
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Hawaiian Goose, Nene, Branta sandvicensis, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Nene (Hawaiian goose), Branta sandvicensis, photographed in the United States. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: John del Rio, 2008 [].
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
Not much mystery to the identification of this mystery bird: anyone who recognized in this bird's large body, sturdy feet, long neck, and conical bill the classic marks of a goose will also, more…
grrlscientist | November 3, 2008tags: Irene Pepperberg, Alex, Alex the African grey parrot, talking parrot, cognition, behavior, streaming video
As you know, I went to Irene Pepperberg's reading last night from her new book about her friend and colleague, Alex the African grey parrot. This is an interesting video interview with Pepperberg about Alex, shortly after he died [3:29]
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008tags: Times Square, 42nd street, The Revelers, subway art, NYC through my eye, photography, NYC
The Revelers (2007).
Artist: Jane Dickson. Photographed in the passageway at 42nd Street/Times Square traveling east between the 8th Avenue/Port Authority Bus Terminal A, C, & E trains) and the 7th Avenue/Broadway (1, 2, & 3 trains) platforms.
I watched the workmen install these mosaics (I wish I had photographed the process to share with you) and photographed them all after the adhesive had dried.
Image: GrrlScientist 9 September 2008 [larger view].
I have photographed glass tile…
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008tags: Pipestone Canyon Valley, Cascade Mountain Range, Winthrop Washington, landscape, nature, photography, Image of the Day
Pipestone Canyon Valley, a few miles north of the small town of Winthrop in the North Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State.
Image: David W. Morgan, 25 October 2008 [larger view].
The photographer, David Morgan, writes;
I am sending some pictures I took [in Washington State] while on a fossil collecting trip this past Saturday. [This image was] taken just a few miles north of Winthrop, WA while exploring the Pipestone Canyon area looking for Paleocene leaf…
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008Here's some carnivalia for you to enjoy;
A Gardening Carnival, 29 October 2008 issue. This is filled with gardening goodness.
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008tags: Birdbooker Report, bird books, animal books, natural history books, ecology books
"One cannot have too many good bird books"
--Ralph Hoffmann, Birds of the Pacific States (1927).
The Birdbooker Report is a special weekly report of wide variety of science, nature and behavior books that are or soon will be available for purchase. This report is written by one of my Seattle birding pals and book collector, Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen, and is published here for your enjoyment. Here's this week's issue of the Birdbooker Report by which lists ecology, environment, natural history and bird…
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008tags: Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin's Kanye West remix, politics, satire, humor, music video, streaming video
As if real life isn't frightening enough, this video shows Sarah Palin's hot new Kanye West remix that should give you nightmares long after voting day has ended [2:05]
grrlscientist | November 2, 2008tags: Hutton's Vireo, Vireo huttoni, birds, mystery bird, bird ID quiz
[Mystery bird] Hutton's Vireo, Vireo huttoni, photographed in Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Superior, AZ. [I will identify this bird for you tomorrow]
Image: Richard Ditch, 2008 [larger view].
Please name at least one field mark that supports your identification.
Rick Wright, Managing Director of WINGS Birding Tours Worldwide, writes:
There's no question that this is a small bird, is there? If we start at the back, we find a shortish, narrow tail stuck on to a comically pudgy body; the shape and the extensive yellow-green…