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4 June 2010

Okay, what's manlier than flying squirrels? Otters! Hey, bub! I'll show YOU a Ring of Bright Water...!

Answer to a question about the slime mold picture: it's by the famous biologist Ernst Haeckel (he coined the phrase, "phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny"; he was wrong in some interesting ways) who also painted biological images. Here's another one:

Thinking good thoughts for the (gravely ill) ninety-nine year old John Wooden, the very, very best basketball coach ever. Period.

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