This person turned his dead cat into a helicopter and call it “art”. Just. so. wrong.
Are you kidding me?
A very serious blog by Gulnaz Saiyed.
› "Google's Intelligence Is More Baboon Than Human"
Yes, but Google probably can’t rip my face off.
This leopard has a rare condition that gives its coat a “strawberry” hue. Okay, it’s not super obvious, but still: pink leopard. Thanks, Nat Geo!
NATIONAL PARKS ON TUMBLR!!!!!!!!!!! So exciting!!!
Arches National Park in Utah preserves over 2,000 natural sandstone arches, like the world-famous Delicate Arch, as well as many other unusual rock formations. In some areas, the forces of nature have exposed millions of years of geologic history. The extraordinary features of the park create a landscape of contrasting colors, landforms and textures that is unlike any other in the world.
Photo: Jim Karczewski - National Park Service
World’s Tiniest Chameleon.
Or am I dead and this is Heaven’s tiniest chameleon?
Small dinos are actually just baby dinos? Sick joke!
› How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
“But T. gondii is just one of an untold number of infectious agents that prey on us. And if the rest of the animal kingdom is anything to go by, says Colorado State University’s Janice Moore, plenty of them may be capable of tinkering with our minds. For example, she and Chris Reiber, a biomedical anthropologist at Binghamton University, in New York, strongly suspected that the flu virus might boost our desire to socialize. Why? Because it spreads through close physical contact, often before symptoms emerge—meaning that it must find a new host quickly… the flu shot had the effect of nearly doubling the number of people with whom the participants came in close contact during the brief window when the live virus was maximally contagious. “People who had very limited or simple social lives were suddenly deciding that they needed to go out to bars or parties, or invite a bunch of people over,” says Reiber.”
I hate it when science is scarier than my imagination!
AYKM? This type of thing makes me not mad at, but disappointed in, humans.
life:
A casualty of Cold War tensions, Chi Chi was a Chinese panda on her way to an American zoo in 1958 when she ran afoul of a U.S. trade embargo of communist China. Michael Rougier photographed her while she was stranded in Frankfurt, forced to get by on wheat instead of her preferred bamboo leaves while her owner tried in vain to get a waiver from the U.S. Treasury Department. Ultimately, she found a home at the London Zoo, where she was one of the most popular attractions until her death in 1972.
Fun fact: Chi Chi was also the inspiration for the panda drawing made famous as the World Wildlife Fund logo.
(see more — LIFE at 75: Best Animal Photos)
Top new species of 2011
Lest you feel complacent about our knowledge of the diversity of life on this puny little planet, check out Wired’s list of the most interesting new species discovered in 2011. The highlights: a sawshark which hunts by slicing through schools of fish, then returning to eat them; rare Burmese monkeys notorious for sneezing, and thus exposing themselves to hunters; a self-cloning, all female lizard species first discovered on a restaurant menu; and an evolutionary relic known as an acorn worm. Click here to check out the whole list.
There were 12 frog species discovered in 2011!
TWELVE!!!!
A team of physicists at Cornell University has created a wrinkle in time. Actually, it’s more like a teeny tiny moth hole in time. Inside it things can occur that are entirely undetectable, at least to ordinary observers. It’s as if they never happened.
WHAT
