Science-related

[rose_cat]

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Where to buy it

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Sunny and his Komodo cam, San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
Why he does this, and full video, at Youtube page (autoplay) -- click on "SHOW MORE"

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From Bird and Moon Science and Nature Cartoons

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Doctor Fun
How and why real-life monarch butterflies have bad taste

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From Life: The Science of Biology, 4th Edition

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Article about how it works, including full video (Includes more, and ickier, examples of this phenomenon; you have been warned.)

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More about the transformer owl and why he does it

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Pygmy seahorse, Nudi Retreat, Lembeh Strait, Indonesia
Photo by Steve Childs

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Buff-tip moth
Photo by Sergei Talanov

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A white blood cell chasing down and eating a Staphyloccus aureas bacterium among red blood cells; from a 1950s 16mm movie by David Rogers
Source, with more detailed explanation

11. What happens when you run water through a 24hz sine wave.

Explanation and instructions at the Youtube page (autoplay)

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Angelo & Jennette Volpe Library & Media Center, TTU, Cookeville, TN, room 243
Photo by Chuck Sutherland

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Not mine.
Photo by Paul (palonious at Flickr)
Reddit post which includes further details by Paul (and endless discussion of how it works)
Also relevant: Diving Bell Spider

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Source
T-shirt

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By PepomintNarwhal at redbubble
T-shirts, posters, throw pillows etc.

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Also posted to randompictures, and a selection to splodefromcute

Comments

Re: Me again, (curse word laden rant inside, of course)

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Damn! Farming must be really frustrating sometimes, what with your success rate and the amount you can sell your product for going up and down so unpredictably. When we still had the farm (in the Oklahoma panhandle, and inherited by B and his brother, so we'd get some income from it every year), we -- and the family actually farming it -- could never be sure what the income would be. (Luckily we weren't significantly dependent on it, but it was nice to get the occasional income.)

Screw Yahoo, and screw the people trying to take advantage of you. Also, screw your fussy hens. (Are you able to at least get some of the eggs away from the hens and incubate them yourself? Or this that something that doesn't work out?)

Also, go suck Mama June's syphillis ridden rotted cunt made me laugh much harder than I should have :D

As far as the arm, not too bad, since I've been doing stuff with it. Often too much, or not carefully enough, so I end up with inflammation and have to rest it, but it does get better again. And at least I know I'm not damaging it again. I do need to get back to physical therapy, which I haven't done since October-ish. Goddamn insurance has given me three different policies, two of which they messed up, and the last of which they canceled for no apparent reason (and then I hadn't been covered since October). We didn't even find that out until B called to find out why they weren't sending me a card. He told them, "you are going to cover my wife retroactively, and get her covered by January (which was a week away). NOW." I don't think I've ever heard him so angry. (It's a cold, simmering anger, with no yelling. Really scary.)

I've got a card now, and I think I can stop waiting for the other shoe to drop. (After a few pairs.)

Regarding the anxiety, can we talk about that via PM or email? Whichever you choose. I'll be out for most of the day, I think.

<3

Re: Me again, (curse word laden rant inside, of course)

[i-want-2.livejournal.com]

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Re: Me again, (curse word laden rant inside, of course)

[i-want-2.livejournal.com]

Oh, I had one hen who went broody on me, a good laying hen and a good brooder, I gave 9 eggs. She got off them and the other hens saw her nest and said "HEY! A NEST! LET'S GET CRACKEN ON LAYING MORE! BA-GOK!" I put in caps because those fuckers laid 8 more in 1 hour on that nest alone. She hatched out 10, 7 have made it to 10-11 weeks. I can't remember their hatching date. They are in the main chicken pen (which we expanded to over 2800 square feet) so they are going to survive. My cousin gave me 3 more hens and a rooster. He will replace the rooster we currently have when he's old enough. If there are roosters with the babies I hatched, they won't survive for long. I won't even grow them enough to let people have them. I'm just going to snap their fucking necks and put them under plants. I have had it with roosters. Over 30 in 2 years, probably closer to 40. That's half the birds I've had survive to maturity. Roosters are supposed to be 3/10 in a clutch. Mine have been 3/5 most clutches.

My pekins will meet a similar fate when the drakes show themselves. They are fatted up that I can cook them if I wanted. But, I'm going to discover the males and give them to my cousin as promised. Dad will get at least 1 duck. A hen I think, because the meat will be milder. I want to try duck. You know I can't stand to eat my birds, but I want to try duck I'm so disgusted with them.

Mmm, soup and quackers. Hllllahhhh *Homer mouth drool*

Yay, B! You go, girl! Okay, You go, boy!

Get yo butt to the rehab! Don't wait for the next huarache to drop. You just do it!