- Pastry Caterpillars for Science! Scientists made pastry caterpillarsin so they could test the protective ability of eyespots..
- Amy Hamilton paints ethereal nature illustrations.
- How is gaming increasing library circulation? And this is why librarians continue to be a force for awesome in the world.
- How to encase your friends in Carbonite.
- How E.B. White got to know spiders and came to write Charlotte’s Web.
- Krystal D’Costa writes about How our Love Affair with Reality Television created Megalodon.
- A beautiful map of forest densities is the winner of a map contest held by the Buckminster Fuller Institute. (Map geek timesuck warning!)
- Are you sure that journalist isn’t a bot? Have you asked them to pass the Turing Test? (I’m not entirely sure I could pass the Turing Test this morning.).
- Beautiful typography – made of intricately cut leaves.
- Schrodinger’s cat is today’s Google Doodle!. via Anne S.
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Seventh Graders tell the story of Rosalind Franklin and Watson and Crick in rap form! This will make your day better.
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Spongelab has a new game out where you have to solve the disappearance of a famous biologist.
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Hermit crab shells with cityscapes!
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Love the pastry caterpillars experiment!