As most of you know, I live in Colorado, which is a caucus state. While the Republicans had record low turnout due to the really stupid decision to have no preference poll, and elect only uncommitted delegates, Democratic precincts had record high turnout. In my precinct we had 25%, more than we'd had in 2008; in a typical midterm or uncontested ( Read more... )

Click on these pictures of caterpillars to see the butterfly (or moth) each transforms to - really interesting, plus wow, some of these caterpillars are astonishingly pretty and/or weird-looking.

Vintage-style planetary travel posters from NASA/JPL. These are so cool!

Calvin Nicholls makes astonishing art of animals out of white paperAnd ( Read more... )