Related: The giant panda is not at an “evolutionary dead end” and could have a long term viable future, according to new research involving scientists from Cardiff University.
From reflecting on life on Flickr.
It’s 1 1/2 inches long?
From National Geographic.
Call him the Mona Lisa of the bird kingdom.
The rare recurve-billed bushbird, recently rediscovered by scientists in Colombia after a 40-year absence, sports a curving beak that gives the illusion of an enigmatic smile.
This photograph, taken by a conservationist with the Colombia-based nonprofit Fundación ProAves, is the first ever taken of a live [...]
From A Potter Wasp on Flickr. The photo got kaipu an award at Digital Camera Magazine.
It’s simply stunning!
Original article The Scorpion and the Frog by Kingsley Bye.
We all create a lifetime of bad habits and conditioning. Some indeed appear to be ingrained in our psyche. There appears to be truth in the adage that people cannot change their basic nature. Well let me tell you a story about a scorpion, a strong [...]
From BusinessWeek.
A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing.
It sounds like an Adbusters editorial: an activist’s dream. But in São Paulo, Brazil, the dream has become a reality.
In September last year, the city’s populist right-wing mayor, Gilberto Kassab, passed the [...]
From washingtonpost.com.
Some have called Euler the “Mozart of Mathematics,” not only because of his genius but because of his prodigious output.
Euler contributed to essentially every field of mathematics — calculus, geometry, number theory and the vast realm of applied mathematics. “He was a universalist when that was still possible,” said Dunham, who has just edited [...]