Envelope for passport photos says “Find smiles inside”
But the instructions for passport photos specifically tell you not to smile
Category: Wandering.Shop
covid19/reporting: what we know so far and what questions we should be asking.
A journalist who covered the Ebola and Zika outbreaks and lived through SARS breaks down what we know so far and what questions we should be asking.
“Inflight Wi-Fi is terrible. To be fair, the fact that we can connect to the …
“Inflight Wi-Fi is terrible. To be fair, the fact that we can connect to the Internet at all while we’re screaming across the sky at hundreds of kilometers an hour in a metal tube is pretty incredible. But still, the quality of that Internet connection often leaves something to be desired.”
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/standards/inflight-wifi-standard-news-airplane-internet
Playing PokemonGo on her way back from voting
So, my wife got inspired playing #PokemonGo on her way back from voting the other day
covid19/cosplay/bad idea
Right, comic cons have a masquerade…
If you actually make it to a fan convention this year, you might want to leave the Phantom of the Opera-inspired Red Death cosplay at home.
How exactly *does* a Metapod run away, anyway?
How exactly *does* a Metapod run away, anyway?
“Stop touching my face? Why the easiest way to prevent coronavirus is so hard.”
“Stop touching my face? Why the easiest way to prevent coronavirus is so hard.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/03/03/coronavirus-prevention-face-touch/
Long Beach aquarium joins with Monterey Bay Aquarium to expand sea otter foster care program, …
Long Beach aquarium joins with Monterey Bay Aquarium to expand sea otter foster care program, pairing stranded otter pups with the aquariums’ female otters who can teach them the skills they need instead of just being raised by humans.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-02-27/foster-care-sea-otter-pups-long-beach-aquarium
Literally made my daily step goal as I climbed into bed.
Literally made my daily step goal as I climbed into bed.
Ever feel like recaptcha is just trolling you?
Stumbled on this picture I took of a drawing found in a children’s hospital a …
Stumbled on this picture I took of a drawing found in a children’s hospital a few years back when the kiddo was there for a few days. They had had posted a bunch of crayon- and marker drawings by patients (and probably siblings) reminding you to WASH YOUR HANDS. This one, with the “EEK! GERMS!” caption and all the dots, was my favorite.
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2015/09/eek-germs/
uspol/covid19: You’re so vain…
You’re so vain, you probably think this impending public health emergency is about you.
Incidentally, my blog is visible on the fediverse now at @kelson – but I decided …
Incidentally, my blog is visible on the fediverse now at @kelson – but I decided to cross-post this instead of boosting it because the image description on the post didn’t come through in the ActivityPub version.
Banded iron rocks, formed before oxygen saturated the atmosphere but after photosynthetic bacteria started releasing …
Banded iron rocks, formed before oxygen saturated the atmosphere but after photosynthetic bacteria started releasing oxygen into the ocean, alternate layers of different iron-containing minerals that may reflect changes in bacterial population.
#geology #prehistory
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/banded-iron-formation-stone
Arbok and Gallade at Tangela.
Arbok and Gallade at Tangela.
Love this headline: “Turtles the size of a car once roamed the Earth. Scientists just found …
Love this headline:
“Turtles the size of a car once roamed the Earth. Scientists just found their fossils.”
“The hulking reptile was about 100 times the size of its closest living relative, the Amazon river turtle, and twice the size of the largest living turtle, the marine leatherback, the researchers estimated.”
The #NewHorizons team has published their full analysis of #Arrokoth “Arrokoth is a fossil. It …
The #NewHorizons team has published their full analysis of #Arrokoth
“Arrokoth is a fossil. It has not changed for billions of years. It has been immaculately preserved, like an insect trapped in amber, in a cold, dim, stupendously serene realm of the solar system where nothing much happens, ever.”
“‘This is the best archaeological dig we’ve ever found into the history of the solar system,’ enthused Alan Stern, the scientific leader of the New Horizons team.”
#space
I find myself thinking about Sam’s speech a lot. About how in the stories that really matter, people faced overwhelming darkness, and had a lot of chances to stop, but they kept going. A Reminder About Story Middles
I find myself thinking about Sam’s speech a lot. About how in the stories that really matter, people faced overwhelming darkness, and had a lot of chances to stop, but they kept going.
A Reminder About Story Middles
Anyone planning to see The Invisible Man?
Good luck with that.
