May 2012
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May 30th
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huffley6: outofthecavern: hannah-ler: blackpoquedown: jellybeing: thedandyunderworld: Taking place in England the owners of the yard slowly kept adding sections to the contraption so when the squirrel learned one section and got the nuts, they’d add another section. It took over 2 weeks to get to the final product you see in the video. OMG…. the most beautiful thing ive ever...
May 30th
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May 27th
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“God gave mankind the ability to reason, and the experts are telling us that too...”
– “Stewardship and God’s climate plan” an op-ed on climate and god, Stillwater Gazette, April 2012. (via climateadaptation)
May 27th
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May 26th
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May 26th
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Wildfires sweep across south-west US amid historic... →
climateadaptation: “Fuelled by historic drought conditions, the wildfire season opened early this year in the rugged mountains of Arizona. By Friday morning, crews were fighting more than a dozen blazes in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, California and Utah. A few small towns were under evacuation order, and at least 170 square miles of brush and forest had been consumed by flames. In...
May 26th
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May 25th
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May 21st
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May 21st
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Ecofeminism! ...wait what?
soapboxpixie: So, first I think I need to explain what ecofeminism is not. Ecofeminism is not the assumption that men abuse nature because women are close to nature. This is my feeble attempt at explaining ecofeminism  Ecofeminism is more of a philosophy (or at least that is how I understand it) The principles of ecofeminism are that the same ideology used to oppress women is the same thing...
May 21st
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May 20th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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“I can’t think of any more human activity than conducting science experiments....”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson on why the impulse for science is hard-wired in our DNA. (via explore-blog)
May 18th
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May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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cloudcoke: Artist Jason deCaires Taylor is a former scuba instructor who’s found a novel way to reduce tourists’ footprints on Caribbean coral reefs: create a new reef. Using marine-grade cement designed to foster coral growth, deCaires Taylor sculpted more than 400 life-size human figures and submerged them 30 feet underwater. The sculpture installation—strategically located near the popular...
May 15th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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May 12th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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“There are a lot of mice and voles, so you know, we are not going to run out of...”
– Alan Caruba, a blogger for Tea Party Nation, on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake potentially being protected under the Endangered Species Act. This rattlesnake is depicted in the ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ flag that has become a rallying cry for the Tea Party. I can’t even deal...
May 10th
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May 10th
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May 7th
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May 6th
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May 6th
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Update!
So you may have noticed things have slowed a bit.  Many of us, including myself, are busy with finals. I’m currently up to my eyeballs in thesis revisions.  Heather is in the middle of a cross country move. FOR ECOLOGY! So, don’t fret. We will return!
May 6th
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May 5th
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