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Outliving her discoverers and with a career spanning the Victorian Era, under the care of a succession of Edinburgh naturalists, the beadle...

H got a nice bouquet of chiefly sunflowers and mixed greenery with garnishes of ficus leaves—and on closer inspection, flourishes of a this ...

Via fellow internet caretaker and peripatetic, Messy Nessy Chic , having keep this tab open all day as a screen-saver and palette-cleanse...

Via Kottke , we learn that after over a decade of readings that suggested significant amounts of oxygen were being produced on the seafl...

A robotic submarine exploring the seamounts off the Chilean coast in a recent expedition sponsored by the Schmidt Ocean Institute has n...

Even more threatened than their beleaguered colonial cousin the corals reefs, we learn that over eighty-five percent of coastal oyster bed...

Informed by the futuristic pavilions constructed for the World Expo in Osaka (previously here , here and here ), we were delighted to pay a...

We are all for any gesture—however notional—that highlights the plight of the planet and causes us to reflect on how rubbish we are as stewa...

pizzo : the Trump Crime Syndicate is expecting host nation partners to pay a big premium for US troops stationed there—via Miss Cellania’s L...

Though on first reading it struck me as a little bit like those gimmicky techniques touted to cure male-pattern baldness or maybe Frankenste...

Underwritten in part by Google, we learn via Slashdot that those working to preserve Australia’s Great Barrier Reef have gotten a new, powe...

subraum : underground photography from Gregor Sailer—via Coudal Partners’ Fresh Signals hängematte : an inviting house of hammocks in Vien...

Oceanographers in Queensland for the first time have produced a comprehensive, global map charting out the pristine, untouched areas of ocea...

cnidaria : a fascinating look at the cultivation and care of coral and someone left the cake out in the rain : interpreting the significan...

january : Millions march across the globe in protest to the inauguration of Dear Leader , followed immediately by a federal hiring-freeze...

Thanks to the brilliant essay by Margaret Wertheim we’re reminded that not only is non-Euclidean geometry not just some contrarian theory, ...

The alway interesting Kottke directs our attention to the winners and honourable mentions of the annual UK Underwater Photography competit...

december : Pioneering US astronaut John Glenn passed away, as did America’s TV Dad, Alan Thicke. Doctor Henry Heimlich also left us, as did...

Hyperalleric invites us on a field-trip that they’ve helped to curate themselves to the Corning Glass Museum to marvel at the exhibit of ant...

Over the weekend, H and I returned to the old gas-works of Leipzig that's been converted in a holodeck of sorts called the Panometer , ...