Grif Peterson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/grif-peterson/youre-my-favorite-mistake_b_931615.html

One of the few positive legacies of the Soviet Union in Turkmenistan is the result of an accident. During Soviet gas explorations in ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/18/hydrothermal-worm-electron-microscope_n_901833.html

This is not photoshop, no clever graphics, no movie scene... it's a hydrothermal worm.

And it's a real creature.


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http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=11&month=07&year=2011

Gorgeous photos of noctilucent clouds!

Here's more on those noctilucent clouds I saw last night from my building in Seattle:

NLCs INVADE THE USA: Last night, a bank of rippling electric-blue noctilucent clouds spilled across the Canadian border into the lower United States. In doing so, the clouds made their farthest excursion of the year away from the Arctic, their usual environment ( Read more... )

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/fieldnotes/2015374366_video_eight-armed_moms_give_their_all_in_puget_sound.htmlRead more... )

http://ironicsurrealism.com/2011/06/10/feel-good-pic-of-the-day-obama-crop-circle-fck-obama/

Some days it just pays to get up in the morning.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/anthony-weiner-press-conference-pictures-photos_n_872108.html

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) insisted he’s staying in office Monday, even as a string of embarrassing new ( Read more... )

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http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/16may_groundtracks/

NASA has released a unique satellite image tracing the damage of a monster EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27th. It combines visible ( Read more... )

http://lwj2.livejournal.com/73220.html

The case of the little historic photograph that shouldn't.