lightsinthedistance-modernlife

I spent about an hour today after work reading a variety of science articles I found and wanted to aggregate them all here for those of you who feel inclined to read some of them. Sometimes I'll post them to Twitter, but 140 characters isn't really enough to explain some of them. So let's start it off with a gastropod video: The video was taken by Kerry Weston with the New Zealand Department of Conservation and I certainly was not expecting it to go the way it did. When I think of snails, I don't normally think of words such as stealthy, carnivorous, and brutal as associated with them. But apparently I have been shown the error of my ways. It's so great when that's demonstrated in such a blunt way. This next video is from NPR and we switch our focus onto the hydrogen bomb. A Very Scary Light Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space If you want a larger video, you can click on the embedded one and you'll be taken to the Vimeo website. I'm always interested in wa

So I have another post started that will explain what I've been up to with my research project, but in the meantime, I have this one. I was reading Richard Conniff's blog and came across his post Learning to Feel at Home . It's filled with great quotations about nature, but one quotation in particular struck me as outstanding. It's lent me a nice springboard for my eventually presentation about my project, and so I'm thinking about starting it off with this picture as the first slide. It's simple, which is part of the reason why I like it. I also expect my audience to not quite understand assassin bugs (or even know anything about them) when I start my presentation, so I think this will help them to understand where I'm coming from and why I chose to pursue my project.