Beautiful Eh?

http://vimeo.com/33234007

Surf/Tree hugging video about the Great Bear Rainforest in Canadia.

Made me spill my granola all over my Birkenstocks.

Sweet Science

Music is a little unfortunate. But pretty sure this is what surfing looks like in TRON.
Science is excellent.

No Thanks

Sexy Sexy

Alana Blanchard. Bangarang

as it turns out some good ironic captions.
who knew?

Learning On The Shoulders Of Giants

A fantastic talk about bioluminescence (glow in the dark animals)

By Dr. Edith Widder, senior scientist for NOAA. 

Recorded at the 2011 Technology Entertainment and Design Conference in Long Beach, CA

John Steinbeck Writes Better Than I Do

Excerpts from "Cannery Row"

By John Steinbeck

"Western Biological deals in strange and beautiful wares. It sells the lovely animals of the sea, the sponges, tunicates, anemones, the stars and buttlestars, and sun stars, the bivalves, barnacles, the worms and shells, the fabulous and multiform little brothers, the living moving flowers of the sea, nudibranchs and tectibranchs, the spiked and nobbed and needly urchins, the crabs and demi-crabs, the little dragons, the snapping shrimps, and ghost shrimps so transparent that they hardly throw a shadow. And Western Biological sells bugs and snails and spiders, and rattlesnakes, and rats, and honey bees and gila monsters.  These are all for sale. Then there are little unborn humans, some mounted whole and others sliced thin and mounted on slides. And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel. And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. You can order anything from Western Biological and sooner or later you will get it."

Just Watch It.

Here's a link to the full shindig