I should probably stop checking the news before I try to write a post each morning. But I can officially recommend the Good Stuff Happened Today tumblr, and in particular this adorable arctic fox video. (With extra thanks to bears-official for their added classic internet commentary: ur device do me an STARTLE gonna hav 2 […]
It has now been almost three weeks since I cut my hair. (And maybe, possibly, mixed up the clipper attachments and used the shorter one first.) ((I’M NOT SURE, OKAY, THE COLORS LOOK REALLY SIMILAR AND I MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN CONFUSED!)) It has been a journey! I basically have one big whorl on the top-back […]
Looks like it’s time to start paying closer attention to the drought tracker again here in New England. Drought Monitor The U.S. Drought Monitor, established in 1999, is a weekly map of drought conditions produced jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Drought Mitigation Center at […]
NatGeo adding some SCIENCE to the day! Earth’s Days Are Getting Longer, by Alejandra Borunda Fave quote: “So if I just wait a few hundred million years,” he says, “I’ll get that extra hour back!”
Last week I had a very nice walk with someone who predicted that our current weather pattern was leading us straight back to a drought. Since I wasn’t really sure of our current drought status, I thought it prudent to reply as vaguely as possible. But now I have relocated the US Drought Monitor map, […]
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has a live cam of nesting Layson Albatrosses in Kauai, Hawaii. Very enjoyable background to working! And yes, it’s terrifying that google sees all and knows all, but it also means that I can search the phrase “tumblr baby bird is muppet adult bird has eyeliner” and it will *actually* […]
Learned about Safecast from NPR. Safecast is an international, volunteer-centered organization devoted to open citizen science for the environment. (Basically a group of people got together after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, and started figuring out how to crowd-source radiation data. It’s grown a lot since then!) The whole site is pretty neat, […]
A coworker introduced me to the Chrome extension Tabby Cat, and it has changed my work life for the better. Each time you open a new tab in chrome, it opens with a picture of a cat, instead of the ‘most visited sites’ tiles. Best part is they have adorable names, like ‘Teeny Casper’ and […]
Yesterday, I was one of the day’s lucky ten thousand: I learned that the internet has a cat! Purrli, aka “The Internet has a Cat!” is a purr generator. Yep. And it’s amazing.
Checked out NASA’s Eclipse 2017 site, because NASA. Things to love: *The eclipse graphic shows the path of totality through the United States, which makes it look a bit like the country is wearing a sash. *This quote: “It is hard not to imagine that the way things are now is the way they have […]