scripps

http://www.sio.ucsd.edu/Research/

kperry

no, i don't love you, but i do think you're lovely.

bones

obama roll

fly birdie fly

girl with a dragon tattoo

jonathan ott

currer, ellis and acton bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the first letter of their first names: Charlotte became Currer Bell, Anne became Acton Bell, and Emily became Ellis Bell. The book was printed by Aylott and Jones, from London. The first edition failed to attract interest, with only two copies being sold. However, the sisters decided to continue writing for publication and began work on their first novels, which became commercial successes. Following the success of Charlotte's Jane Eyre in 1848, and after the deaths of Emily and Anne, the second edition of this book (printed in 1850 by Smith & Elder) fared much better, with Charlotte's additions of previously unpublished poetry by her two late sisters. It is believed that there are fewer than ten copies in existence with the Aylott and Jones title-page.

christ's sake

indians vs. pilgrims

hard hard hard

inglorious bastards

oh hitler

cozumel, mexico

cephalopods in action

http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/yvd98/yvd98.html

good luck santa- darwin.

14 year old gay boy stands up for teacher

Blag Hag: 14 year old stands up for gay-defending teacher: "Graeme Taylor is my new favorite person in the world. He's an openly gay 14-year old who eloquently defended Jay McDowell, a teacher who had been recently suspended without pay at his school in Howell, Michigan. What horrible thing did McDowell do that warranted this suspension? He told a student to take off a confederate flag belt buckle and removed two students for making anti-gay remarks.

pope approves condoms!

He will say that it is acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention is to "reduce the risk of infection" from Aids.

While he will restate the Catholic Church's staunch objections to contraception because it believes it interferes with the creation of life, he will argue that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death can be a responsible act – even outside marriage.

Asked whether "the Catholic Church is not fundamentally against the use of condoms," he replies: "It of course does not see it as a real and moral solution.

"In certain cases, where the intention is to reduce the risk of infection, it can nevertheless be a first step on the way to another, more humane sexuality."

He will stress that abstinence is the best policy in fighting the disease, but accept that in some circumstances it is better for a condom to be used if it protects human life.

"There may be justified individual cases, for example when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be ... a first bit of responsibility, to redevelop the understanding that not everything is permitted and that one may not do everything one wishes.

"But it is not the proper way to deal with the horror of HIV infection."

The groundbreaking announcement will come in a book to be published by the Vatican next week based on the first face-to-face interview given by a Pope.

In the interview, he admits he was stunned by the sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church and raises the possibility of the circumstances under which he would consider resigning.

Most significant, however, are his comments on condoms, which represents the first official relaxation in the Church's attitude on the issue after growing calls from cardinals for the Vatican to adopt a more humane approach to stopping the spread of HIV.

Although the Pope's ruling is aimed specifically to stop people infecting their partners, particularly in Africa where the disease is most prevalent,

it will inevitably be seized upon by liberal Catholics in Britain who oppose the Church's long-standing stance against contraception.

High-profile Catholics including Cherie Blair have stated publicly that they use birth control.

The move by Pope Benedict is particularly surprising because he caused controversy last year by suggesting condom use could actually worsen the problem of Aids in Africa.

He described the epidemic in the continent as "a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/the-pope/8148899/Pope-approves-use-of-condoms-in-fight-against-Aids.html

cephalovepod

http://octophant.us/m/posters/CephaLovePod.jpg

ichthyology

http://www.finerareprints.com/animals/rees/103331.jpg

heike weber

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Z4eWU/bumbumbum.me/2010/04/21/heike-weber-installations//r:f

sociology of the hipster

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Greif-t.html?_r=1

camera obscura

lovesuvari

back up santa

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=820410289263&set=a.793893563993.2377576.22217142&ref=nf

shackleford banks, nc

thanks bbc

bad books

i love you.

http://www.spin.com/articles/exclusive-debut-clip-bad-books

octolope

http://octophant.us/m/posters/octolope.jpg

ancient burrow

The fossilized remains of a groundhog's kind of quarters has now been tracked back to an amphibian that lived a whopping 350 million years ago.

Researchers have found the earliest burrow of what had to be a four-legged critter at a time before many reptiles and long, long before mammals were around. The burrow was likely home to a hefty creature that also left its footprints in related rocks, but no bones.

The discovery of the burrow came when a professor and his students were out looking for signs of ancient animals in the rocks exposed by road cuts in Pennsylvania.

"We were all prospecting for tracks," said Ed Simpson, a paleontologist at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. "We came upon this structure and said, 'This is weird.'"

The borrow is, of course, now filled with sediments which have turned to stone. But it retains the gently funnel-shaped opening which leads to a downward dropping tunnel, which rises again to the main borrow. There are also features on the outside of the burrow that make a strong case for it having once been open to the surface, near a river.

Simpson asked his students to come up with ideas of what the structure was, and then justify their ideas. The two basic lines of reasoning were that it was either formed by water wind or other physical processes, or it was formed by an organism. Students Lauren Storm and Mattathias D. Needle studied the possibilities, Simpson said, and their names are now the first two on the paper reporting the discovery in the journal Palaeo.

"It's very difficult to get an erosive feature like this," Simpson explained. The only thing that comes close is a pothole, which is formed in a river by rocks, but the hole was too deep and the upward arc of the tunnel can't be easily explained as a pothole.

Another possibility is that a buried log could have rotted away, said geologist David Loope of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. But doesn't seem likely to have produced this structure either, he said.

A primitive burrow seems far more feasible, Loope agreed. What's more, there are probably lots more like it in sedimentary rocks all over the world, if only people were looking for them.

"There's so much out there to see that so many of us walk past," said Loope. So it really helps to identify and describe structures like this so that people know what to search for, he said.

As for the structure of the burrow itself, it represents a very early stage of development of large burrows that have an evolutionary history of their own, said Simpson.

"These might be the first step for a more complicated burrow system," said Simpson. "If you look at the (later) Permian fossils they actually make corkscrew burrows." These perhaps allowed their inhabitants to fight off intruders by turning corners all the way down -- as in a castle turret.

Regarding the animal that dug the burrow, "it was a tetrapod definitely," said Simpson, referring to early reptile or amphibian with four legs, a spine and a tail -- as opposed to some sort of giant worm or other invertebrate. The best bet was that it was an amphibian, because of the age, he said.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/ancient-animal-burrow.html

instant oatmeal women

Antoine Dodson

laDy GaGa

france on strike

Weeks of strikes, protests and demonstrations have brought much of France to a standstill as workers, students and others voice their strong opposition to a government proposal to raise the age for a minimum pension from 60 to 62. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel, hundreds of flights were canceled, long lines formed at gas stations and train services in many regions were cut in half. Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport, Lady Gaga canceled concerts in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon. The unpopular bill is edging closer to becoming law as the French Senate is preparing to vote on it today. Collected here are recent images of the unrest around France. Update: Pension reform bill just now passed by French senate.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/10/france_on_strike.html