Morning Mergansers

 The Mergansers enjoy an early morning sunbath, sitting on the dock of the bay … 
Mother and offspring reflect on their enjoyment of this lovely morning … 
Mother Merganser, always alert, spies an approaching kayak … 
Ducklings! Into the water!! NOW!!!  
 

Trip of a Lifetime - LSD

This May 1 article in The Independent (U.K.) outlines the history and some of the highlights (or lowlights) of the LSD era: Trip of a lifetime: How LSD rocked the world
If you are old enough to remember the 60s, you might enjoy watching these videos from that time. The first records an experiment with British [...]

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Lonely Little Lamp

Rejection. Rain and wind. Sad music. The fleeting caress of the replacement. The dying light and the garbage strewn street.  And then, the accusation …

Holidaying Penguins (the BBC, April 1, 2008)

Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos

Here are some really funny and amazing chemistry videos, from Wired Science magazine. As they state, Fiery explosions, beautiful reactions, and hilarious music videos are great reasons to be excited about chemistry. My favourite is the one pictured above, a commercial that’s a music video about polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that parodies those celebrity music [...]

whichbook.net — Choose a book to match your needs

  Do you ever go to a library or bookstore and not have a clue about what book to look for? Well, here is help, from whichbook.net, and it’s really fun to use. On one screen you can choose the mood and length and other qualities (click on the above screen shot for an example), and you can even move [...]

A little Google history from the Internet Archive

 
I first heard about Google in June, 1999. But Google was actually up and running early the previous year.  Check out this Google Friends Newsletter for May 18, 1998 (originally a Yahoo group!) in which “Larry and Sergey” wrote:
Google has now been up for over a month with the current database and we would like to [...]

Museum of Bad Art (MOBA™)

  Pictured at left is Lucy In the Field With Flowers, the single painting planted the seed that grew into MOBA™. MOBA stands for Museum of Bad Art, and it was founded in the fall of 1993. Its motto is ART TOO BAD TO BE IGNORED.
MOBA™ is a community-based, private institution dedicated to the collection, preservation, [...]

Plain English Campaign

  “fighting for crystal clear communication since 1979″
Anyone who appreciates plain English will enjoy this site:
“Plain English Campaign officially began in 1979, after founder Chrissie Maher OBE publicly shredded hundreds of official documents in Parliament Square, London. Entirely independent, the campaign funds itself through its commercial services, which include editing and training. We have worked [...]