The World from On High

Stephan Zirwes takes incredible photographs from 10,000 feet.

The world is a gorgeous, bustling geography.

See the "Zones and Fields" series in its entirety here.

Take a break from the everyday — and see the world from 10,000 feet — with Stephan Zirwes’s hypnotic series of aerial photographs, “Zones and Fields.”

You’ll see stunning shots of industrial areas, ski races, beaches, construction sites, and airfields — all of them taken from vertigo-inducing angles. Zirwes’s soccer fields look like foosball tables; his tropical islands resemble jellyfish; his world is full of striking patterns and beautiful geometries. We suggest that you view the series in full screen, that you turn the volume up — and enjoy your flight.

from 21 May 09 Very Short List.

I just had a cute-stroke

Pygmy Jerboa.

A what?

I dunno, dude, but I want like 50 of 'em.

How to Be a Bat

How To Be A Bat [Life in Motion]

This is too cool.  Watch videos of bats (even VAMPIRE BATS!) doing all kinds of cool stuff like flying and...running.  No, really.  Watch 'em.

Bat on flower from Carl Zimmer on Vimeo.

From the Discover Blog.

I don't know why the one on the far left just REFUSES to cooperate.

Harumph.

Stupid nature.

I don't understand it, but I think it's groovy.

A Miracle of Nature

It amazes me that I haven't killed them yet, but I haven't!

Ash even managed to do her part while I was in LA, though I suspect she watered them with booze.

I think we can safely give up on that fool on the far right, though.

A triumph of the ten-year-old girl imagination

There's only one pink dolphin the world...

and it lives in Louisiana!  Very close to my parents!

It's like all my Lisa Frank dreams have come to life!

Somehow, miraculously, these are sprouting...

Who'd a thought?

Continuing on the Unicorn Theme

OH MY GOD PEOPLE. RAINBOWS AND UNICORNS.

ON. DE. MAND.

Prepare to get nothing done for the rest of the day, for all the sparkly glitter ponies on your desktop.

My fave is the one who looks like he's majestically jump-surfing over a wave. It's like something off one of those shirts they sell in gas stations & gift shops "Out West" with the coyotes howling off a cliff into the moonlight. Which I only remember so vividly because my dad BOUGHT IT.

I'll stop now... Enjoy.

SERIOUSLY.  CLICK THAT BUTTON ABOVE.

(and refresh the page to get rid of 'em)

This made me laugh A LOT.

superpoop.com

I have no discernible green thumb, but here goes nothing...

LSU flowers on Michigan Avenue