There have been entirely too many good articles lately!!

On mavericks, (courtesy of dlux)

On cats, (ok, so that wasn't lately)

On superworms, (how freaking cool is that?)

On microbial disguise, (appropriate for Halloween, n'est ce pas?)

On bipartisan knitters, (for once mixing politics and the knitting community is making me happy)

On Rhode ( Read more... )

I don't know what is happening to me, as I am normally so un-politically aware as to be apolitical, but apparently that's all changed recently. Here is a gem, sent courtesy of dlux.

Somehow I've managed to find myself in an Environmental Science program. I think of myself as just about as un-crunchy as one can get. But maybe I have to rethink that? Or perhaps one doesn't need to be crunchy to be upset at stuff like this.

Today is Loving Day, the day 41 years ago on which criminal charges against Mr. and Mrs. Loving (an interracial couple) were dropped, and the remaining laws against interracial marriage in sixteen (16!) states were struck down. The laws were remains of segregation laws, specifically anti-miscegenation laws.

Some quotes:

"It is contrary and ( Read more... )