Thingum Bob, Esq.
Bob Likes Stuff
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Spittlebugs are pests, sucking the sap from garden plants and using it to make their protective, slimy froth. Eventually they grow into froghoppers....
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30 photo stitch.
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Our pop music critic Ken Tucker on the title track from Natalie Maines’ new solo album, Mother:
Natalie Maines doesn’t hesitate to...
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Engraved Zippo lighters from the Vietnam War. From Cowan’s Auctions
Beauty of the Universe II - Colors
Insufferable pedantry: I love astronomy pictures like these as much as the next guy…but I’m pretty sure these are all false color images. I know it’s “art” and all that shit, but soulful titles like “Colors of the Universe” is a bit misleading. The spectrum mapping is at least as interesting as the final result, but it always gets overlooked.
(via lost-and-unknown)
As opposed to the aperiodic elementsClose up photography of several periodic elements
Successful #Dragon #SpaceX craft capture by #ISS - about 253 miles over northern Ukraine.
Not too shabby considering three out of the four thruster pods weren’t working for the first rev or two. Nice work, fellas.
The meteor that hit Russia today.
Wait for the sonic boom 27 sec in…
Shit moves fast in space.
If you haven’t seen the Q&A Bill did over on Reddit today, it’s pretty impressive,
Bill and Melinda have literally changed the world for the better and saved millions of lives. And he still comes off as genuine and almost normal.
The Big Dipper throughout the years.
Second .gif in the last year…sorry
If you haven’t heard, we bombed the moon today.
Where “we” = NASA and “bombed” = crashed a couple of lunar science satellites that were low on gas and beyond design life.
I like to imagine that some day each of these impact sites on the moon will be commemorated by a bland, brown “Point of Interest” sign along the side of a lunar highway at which nobody will bother to stop* (with the exception of spunky bloggers with too much time on their hands and an inexplicable desire to be passionate about obscure things).
PS. That came off as snarky. Sorry. I like all you quirky, passionate people. I snicker condescendingly at all you gif-loving punks that think you’re unique because you like the same crappy TV-shows as everybody else on Tumblr. I hate you all and I’m going to die an old and lonely man.
*I feel like I’m the only person that ends up with clunky sentence structure like this to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. I wish i could write, but shit like this confounds me.
tedx:
Below is an email sent to the TEDx community regarding our view on bad science/pseudoscience talks at TEDx events.
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Hello TEDx Community,
In light of a few suspect talks that have come out of the TEDx movement — some of which we at TED have taken action to…
TED is in regular rotation on my exercise podcast list. I’m glad to see they’re trying to get this under control. If a bogus lecture comes on, it’s really hard to hit the skip button with mittens on during a winter run.
