A beautiful set of photos from a land artist. Leaves, twigs, stones, and thorns. This stuff is so excellent.

A very focused blog that ruined/made my evening.

Filip Dujardin is an architect who in his spare time puts together photographs of buildings to form new structures.

Lots of videos of lightning in slow motion, which is awesome.

They can flip themselves into the air a bunch of centimeters by snapping their jaws. This video is wonderful.

Beautiful, deadly.

Excellent and quirky nature paintings.

On why entrepreneurs and health food nuts are living right, and cubiclones are missing something. "In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally."

The text of this article is pretty incredible, but the picture is the best part. She's all, "YEAH I DID IT! AGAIN! HAHAHA!"

The answer lies in parallax.

Mike Lee calls for developers to donate to the Madagascar Fauna Group in exchange for a free plushy lemur and membership in "Club Thievey." I've got mine! :-)

Currently sunny in...

Nice recordings of several different sorts of insects. Lots of crickets and bees.

They cry when eating, but "what causes the tears remains a bit of a mystery." This article is full of great lines. Note the onion-and-pepper experiment and the last two paragraphs in particular.

Awwww.

"The newest creature was dubbed a 'microshark' by Jan War, operations manager at the natural energy lab. Scientists tentatively identified it as a deep-water catshark and said only two other specimens are known to exist."

Margulis says that Gaia is "the series of interacting ecosystems that compose a single huge ecosystem at the Earth's surface. Period."

Bees project a six-degree "flag" manifold (found also in the mathematics of quarks) in two dimensions to describe where and how to find the food, describing landmarks based on electromagnetic fields and the polarization levels of sunlight.

"The poem deals with nature reclaiming the earth after the disappearance of the human race, and the small overall impact humanity left on the planet."

Music that is truly "undergound."

"The lowest-hanging full moon in 18 years" will appear enormous in the sky this week.

French artist. Special emphasis on mushrooms and girls.

"This simple yet effective concoction is an old favourite of gardeners trying to encourage moss growth and provides an excellent alternative to spray paint."

"The most common possum species in Australia, the brushtail possum is a tree-dwelling nocturnal marsupial. Its propensity to nest in roofs and ceilings has been known to surprise Aussie homeowners."

Stunningly photos, and they make superb desktop pictures.

360 degree panorama from the top of Mt. Everest. Beautiful.

Amazing. A folder full of these makes for an excellent screensaver.

This is incredible. "What are these creatures, that they spin silver lariats for the sheer joy of creation? And what sort of creatures are we, if we cannot appreciate and protect them?"

"Each one sells for around $10 and features real, live plants that grow in a tiny arboretum until they become too large to be contained, after which they can be transplanted to a larger pot."