This badass is Iguanacolossus fortis (“Mighty Iguana Colossus”), and he wins the Best Dinosaur Name of the Year 2010 award, hands down. This guy will coldcock any jackass what tries to hassle him.
(image by Lukas Panzarin originally published in PLoS, used under CC-by-Attribution)
I’m not sure which is better - the awesome illustration or the “…coldcock any jackass …” part of the description …..
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Chlöe Howl - I Wish I Could Tell You (by ChloeHowlVEVO)
Ok. As mentioned briefly in a previous post, I started a new job last Wednesday. And it fucking sucks. No, I’m not doing something degrading or disgusting (I save that for the weekends and people who pay MUCH better), but there’s just something … soul-sucking about it.
It took me 4 months to get this job (well, to get any job) and yet after 3 days I am back in the old Sunday depression. This is not good. I should be (or so I’ve been told) still in the ‘honeymoon period’ and looking forward to meeting the challenge or whatever.
Instead I just feel slightly nauseous about the thought of going in there tomorrow.
To put things in perspective, in my old job (which I held for 5 years) I used to bake stuff and take it in. You know, brownies, muffins, all kinds of good shit. These people? I don’t know if they deserve my muffins.
Live MAIDA VALE session for Hue Stephens on BBC radio1.
“Is that a kitten in your pants or are you just pleased to …. Oh. Oh I see.”
(Source: endless-pulchritude, via baby-james)
JbDubs - I Hate My Job
I started a new job on Wednesday …
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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars.
What happens when you wring out a washcloth in space?
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/what-happens-when-you-wring-ou.html
(Source: hydrotoxicity, via travelandskin)
Jarrad McVeigh
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Fruit fly by Jorge Fardels
Credit: ESO/H. Dahle
The 3.58-meter New Technology Telescope (NTT), located at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, stands against the southern sky. The Milky Way appears as a hazy stripe across the sky. Also, the Large Magellanic Cloud appears to the right of the telescope.
An artist’s concept shows the Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle and future destinations for human exploration beyond Earth orbit: the moon, an asteroid and Mars.
Credit: Nasa
(Source: space.com)
The director of Jurasic Park 4 has tweeted that the Velociraptors will not have feathers, which has lead to quite a bit of backlash in the palaeo community. There’s not much point in rehashing the scientific in inaccuracy of this. Brian Switek’s piece will give you good rundown of the…