A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Earlier today I went up the street to Town Hall Grill and saw their white-board where they write the descriptions of Dinner Specials....and there is a new one today with the name "Special for Bora"! Wow! The perks of being a regular customer! Well, of course I got one, brought it home, re-arranged it on one of my plates and took a picture: Deliciously tender fried chicken, corn on the cob and fresh (probably locally grown) vegetables: carrots, squash. onions and broccoli. A very summery, light and delicious meal! Yum!
Rainy day, so yummy earthworms are out and about:
I know PZ has recently posted a picture and a video of slugs mating. But these pictures were taken here in North Carolina, by blog reader Kris Barstow, who says: The year was 1999 plus or minus a year, the site was a few miles from Asheboro, NC. I don't recall the season, but it was warm, and there is definitely a chill there in the cold seasons, so I assume spring or summer. It was about half an hour after sunrise; I was walking my dog. I would occasionally carry my camera "just because ..." I saw these two acting strangely on the surface of the wooden shed. They actually attached themselves…
Well, I don't have pretty pictures of my brain, but those who follow me on Twitter/FriendFeed/Facebook know that my older dog, Millie, had a surgery over New Year's - a very enlarged uterus full of pus had to go out. She is doing fine now, completely recovered. What I really liked was that I got to keep a CD with her X-rays. When I put a CD in my laptop, I get images that are somewhat interactive, i.e., if I click on a detail, that detail gets enlarged. But I could not figure out how to save that format on my computer - all I get are static images that I cannot manipulate in any way. But…
Last year, the only snow day in the Triangle was January 20th. I remember, because a number of locals could not drive to the 2nd Science Blogging Conference. This year we were wiser so we organized it a few days early. And, lo and behold, on January 20th this year, we had snow again: This was also the first time Juno saw snow. It took her three walks to lose the fear of this strange, white substance:
See the discussion about identification of this strange animal here. Is it correct?
From The Big Picture 2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days: Part 1Part 2Part 3 Those are some amazing pictures. Some are gory. Some are poignant. Some are…
A very sad story: What started for me as an amusing collection of photos -- who takes photos every day for eighteen years? -- ended with a shock. Who was this man? How did his photos end up on the web? I went on a two-day hunt, examined the source code of the website, and tried various Google tricks. Finally my investigation turned up the photographer as Jamie Livingston, and he did indeed take a photo every day for eighteen years, until the day he died, using a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He called the project "Photo of the Day" and presumably planned to collect them at some point -- had he lived…
Dolphins Clip - Click here for more free videos A dolphin stampede!
This guy compiled a list of Top Three Twitter Accounts from a number of different countries. Of course, it is impossible to make such a list perfectly - many people never put their country when registering, others have moved, others have multiple accounts, etc., but nonetheless, it is a nice list of people you may want to check out and follow if you want to broaden your international horizons. A number of countries are missing, though. There is no Serbia, for instance. But you can find a full deck of cards of Twitter users just from Belgrade, Serbia here.
This is one of ten Best Science Images of 2008 as chosen by National Geographic: Little Shop of Horrors fans may see a resemblance to the bloodthirsty plant from the 1986 movie in the above electron micrograph image. Drexel University doctoral student Jessica Schiffman won an honorable mention in photography in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for capturing what's actually an array of suckers found on the tentacles of a long-finned squid. Each sucker--about 400 micrometers wide, or a little smaller than the width of a human hair--is surrounded with "…
I grew up in the big city. I like visiting big cities. The moment you drop me in NYCity, San Francisco, or London, I get into my "city mode" - the quicker pace of walking, a different demeanor. It's fun - for a few days. I don't want to move into and live in a big city again. I am much happier getting out on my front porch and taking a picture of a deer in the front yard:
The (apparently un-embeddable) video of the cuties is here (I wouldn't do that with my hand, though, what you see at one point....). Hat-tip: Viktor
That's what she said....
A wonderful example of Bioluminescence!
Growing up, we (meaning: kids growing up in Yugoslavia) all learned about the strangest animal of our country - the cave-dwelling White Olm Proteus anguinus, that we called Man-fish (Covecja ribica). But what do I know? Darren Naish knows much more about it - and after reading his post (an updated version of his older post) you will see for yourself what a cool and crazy animal this is.