John Scalzi hits it out of the park again with Things I don't have to think about today, an awesome post on privilege.

Also see his post Being Poor if you haven't already.

Check out the second half of this video, of a goshawk flying through a forest. Holy Shi....

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D'oh, BBC doesn't allow embedding. Go here

And while I'm at it, I'm surprised I didn't post about the NatGeo story on inland blue hole caves:

In these flooded caves, such as Stargate on Andros Island, the reduced tidal flow results in a sharp stratification of water chemistry. A thin lens of fresh water-supplied by rainfall-lies atop a denser layer of salt water. The freshwater lens acts ( Read more... )

Wired Science (yes, I keep reading it Weird Science, too) has an occasional series of pictures of Earth from Space. It's these types of things I like keeping in an open tab in my web browser, so I can scroll through a bit when things get tough.

Click on the images to go to the individual story, and see the larger photos.

I've been there!

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I think this may be the most awesome lifeform I've ever seen:


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Found this off of an old tweet of @neilhimself. I had no idea!

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(From Ukraine's Got Talent)

This is my favorite (so far):

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(edited because I had the wrong link on the first one)