Queued: this is just adorable
What are you doing, tiny snake?
I WILL EAT THIS LEAF
LOOK AT HIM HE’S TRYING SO HARD HE’S SUCH A LITTLE BADASS
You can do it!
*gets out cheerleading pompoms*
GO SNAKE! GO SNAKE! GO SNAKE!
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An innovative initiative is taking place in the Philippines to bring sustainable lighting to homes in impoverished communities. Empty plastic bottles are installed in the roof, filled with water and bleach they refract sunlight. These “solar light bulbs” provide light equivalent to a 55watt light bulb.
See how they’re made here. From Visual News
Seen these before. Love them. Wasn’t surprised to see it turn up on my dash, considering the blogs I follow, was surprised by who posted it though. :)
I love having heroes who care about awesome things.
<3 Chemistry.
Today, I made some calming manatees, but most of them are the wrong size to go on the site.
Oh well. Would you like them?
OH GOD OH NO IT’S LITERALLY ME
I’M THE CALMING MANATEE
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get out of there cat. you’re a kitten not a dust bunny.
*sniffle* H-h-he can be a dust bunny if he wanna!
We live in a strange, beautiful, and often alien-looking world. Case in point: the crystal-clear Jewel Caterpillar of Central and South America, pictured here in all its translucent glory.
This particular caterpillar (which is known more formally as Acraga Coa, and metamorphoses into this equally stunning orange moth) was spotted by photographer Gerardo Aispuru near Cancun, Mexico
My lovely boyfriend Tim introduced me to this caterpillar. It’s awesome.
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rtnt:
Speaking In Tongues
Here’s something special for your Monday morning: In a lecture given just after the 2008 Presidential elections, Zadie Smith explores the stigmas associated with straddling different cultures and languages, and expresses hope that Obama’s ability to do so heralded a new politics of inclusivity.
We now know that Obama spoke of Main Street in Iowa and of sweet potato pie in Northwest Philly, and it could be argued that he succeeded because he so rarely misspoke, carefully tailoring his intonations to suit the sensibility of his listeners. Sometimes he did this within one speech, within one line: “We worship an awesome God in the blue states, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the red states.” Awesome God comes to you straight from the pews of a Georgia church; poking around feels more at home at a kitchen table in South Bend, Indiana. The balance was perfect, cunningly counterpoised and never accidental. It’s only now that it’s over that we see him let his guard down a little, on 60 Minutes, say, dropping in that culturally, casually black construction “Hey, I’m not stupid, man, that’s why I’m president,” something it’s hard to imagine him doing even three weeks earlier. To a certain kind of mind, it must have looked like the mask had slipped for a moment.
Which brings us to the single-voiced Obamanation crowd. They rage on in the blogs and on the radio, waiting obsessively for the mask to slip. They have a great fear of what they see as Obama’s doubling ways. “He says one thing but he means another”—this is the essence of the fear campaign. He says he’s a capitalist, but he’ll spread your wealth. He says he’s a Christian, but really he’s going to empower the Muslims. … And when Jesse Jackson heard that Obama had lectured a black church congregation about the epidemic of absent black fathers, he experienced this, too, as a tonal betrayal; Obama was “talking down to black people.” In both cases, there was the sense of a double-dealer, of someone who tailors his speech to fit the audience, who is not of the people (because he is able to look at them objectively) but always above them.
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Definitely an interesting read.
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Reblogging because this is my favorite Norse myth, hee!For the Avengers ask, without text and junk
It’s been a while since I’ve drawn some nordicks
pink is totally your color, Thor
Why, Thor, you look so…dashing…in my clothes…
