How many baby scorpions can one mother hold on her back?
This picture was taken by a team of researchers at Dripping Springs Natural Area in the summer of 2011. It is of a female striped bark scorpion (Centruroides vittatus) carrying babies on her back.
Picture by Matt Rowe
This is my nightmare.
First algae powered building goes up in Hamburg
A 15-unit apartment building has been constructed in the German city of Hamburg that has 129 algae filled louvered tanks hanging over the exterior of the south-east and south-west sides of the building—making it the first in the world to be powered exclusively by algae. Designed by Arup, SSC Strategic Science Consultants and Splitterwerk Architects, and named the Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) House, the building demonstrates the ability to use algae as a way to heat and cool large buildings.
You don’t have to do it right. You just have to do something.
NYT: The set for the new Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
You should read the whole story; it’s a pretty interesting, in-depth look at how all of this Conan and Leno stuff unfolded/is unfolding.
