Tamara Boyd

I chose Gremlin for our black rescue kitty. Husband thought we should go more specific with Gizmo. I've come across so many Gizmos since then! I think I may just name my next one Cat. Chat if I'm feeling inspired.😄

A broken cave entrance with some indirect light penetrating reveals a bright green, luminous growth mottled across grey rock. The darker part of the cave continues just above the green and grey rock. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistostega#/media/File:Hikarigoke_Schistostega.JPG

In the semi-darkness of a forest cave glitters a treasure of glowing green: Schistostega pennata, common name 'goblin gold' moss.

It's glowing not because of luminescence or fluorescence, but because the moss has evolved a billion little lenses to capture & reflect light.

(📷: Tentsukutsu)

two bunnies in mid air, one kicking the other

Two bunnies in mid air with their feet extended for flying kicks

Two bunnies in mid air flying apart after one has kicked the other

Two bunnies in mid air, one with his hind paws landing a kick on the other's ribcage

Everybunny was kung-fu fighting.

photographers: Takayuki and Mora Nakamura.

Caroline Herzenberg, age 17, as a finalist in the 1949 Science Talent Search contest. The photo is black and white. She is wearing a long dress or gown, light colored, with puffy sleeves and a bow pinned over her heart. She has short, dark hair. Her head is turned to the side and she is smiling at someone off camera.

Physicist Caroline Herzenberg was born OTD in 1932. She is known for pioneering early work in Mössbauer spectroscopy, including an analysis of the first samples returned from the moon by the Apollo astronauts. 🧪 👩‍🔬

Image: Herzenberg as Finalist in the 1949 Science Talent Search

Stop.
Using.
Rat/Mouse Poison.
🪶

Why do the billionaires who are obsessed with building space rockets never fund stuff like this

Backlit Cooper’s Hawk 🪶🌥️🌵

I have a story in this new anthology, due out in May, along with a lot of excellent writers. Stories inspired by Zamyatin's social dystopia "We".

This image from March 23, 1977, shows engineers on stepladders preparing the Voyager 2 spacecraft ahead of its launch later that year. The spacecraft is the size of a small car with a big dish connected to a core which houses the instruments. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

An artistic impression of Voyager in dark star-filled space, looking back towards the bright Sun.

Sadly Voyager1 is glitching again. Currently in interstellar space,15 billion miles away, it can receive commands, but is unable to return data.🤞Hoping NASA can fix its 46yo computer that has less memory than a car key fob. The 45 hr time lag between send/receive makes troubleshooting hard though.🧪🔭

Eight Crazy Eyes: Spaceman - Reactor In space, no one can hear a giant space spider eat Nutella

"When it comes to space movies, it seems like moviemakers have a choice to make: is this story a work of competency porn? Or is it a Haunting Meditation on Time and Grief and Possibly Dad?"

Leah Schnelbach reviews Spaceman (2024)!

reactormag.com/movie-review...

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for February 2024. Most areas are warmer than average, except for parts of the Antarctic. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies.

Our ninth consecutive month of record warmth - February 2024

🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average

Overall, the average February global air temperature was +1.44°C above 1951-1980 climate baseline (+1.73°C above the 1880-1920 baseline). Data code: data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/sour...

Palos Verdes peninsula has been losing chunks of land and expensive homes to erosion and landslides exacerbated by heavy rains for years and yet the building continues. Rich people love their oceanfront compounds.

My kind of weirdo. Awesome.

A macro photo of a fluffy moth perched on the petals of a yellow flower, against a blue sky. The moth is pale yellow-grey, with a hint of pink visible on part of a wing, and has a pale green, spotted eye.

Maximum fluff: up close with a small (about a cm. long) day-flying moth (Heliolonche pictipennis) on its preferred flower, a desert dandelion. Mojave Desert, California. Worth a zoom-in to see its lovely pale-green eye. 🐙 🌿 #insects

Very cool. Sheep Not skeleton is a little unnerving though😧

An allegory of the "Jaws" movie poster that caused damage and negative stereotypes to the image of sharks that persist to this day (I'm glad it's slowly changing, but it's still too slow to be considered forgivable). Now with a reversal of roles, with the human victim replaced by a simple wild shark and the terrible stereotyped shark replaced by a monstrous human skull seeming to want to devour the shark (this is the reality, we kill thousands of sharks every year, many of them killed for irrational reasons, who is the real cruel killer?)

This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, author of 'Jaws', who dedicated his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.

We kill millions of sharks annually and demonize them in our media, who is the real monster? 💀

#Jaws #sharks #shark

Always love when I take off my glasses for a sec and set them down someplace then can't remember where I put them and also can't *see* where I put them because I'm not wearing them and have to put on a second pair in order to find the first pair. Where are my bionic eyes?

Happy birthday! (I was going to say "Many happy returns' but given your shopping plans, that seemed like inviting bad luck)

Digital drawing with traditional appearance. A woman in a loosely fitting dress that covers everything but her neck up and forearms to hands. Her hands are clasped. Her hair is blowing upward and entwined with planets and stars. Her head is upturned and peaceful. She’s part of everything and distinct. #art

all of these decisions hinge on the false idea that the 14th Amendment and the civil rights laws of the 1960s were written achieve "colorblindness" and "level the playing field" when they were explicitly devised to end THE RACIAL SUBORDINATION OF ONE GROUP TO ANOTHER.

Overcast skies brought out the best in this Costa’s Hummingbird 🪶🌵⛅️

Reading dialogue out loud during the editing process really is key. So much dialogue reads like it was never spoken, nor was ever meant to be spoken, by an actual human. Actual human have to, you know, breathe when they speak.

Commissions sign historic agreement to enhance cooperation on Great Lakes restoration and protection

Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC), the Great Lakes Commission (GLC), and International Joint Commission (IJC) formally signed the first-ever MOU between them.

PDF: www.glfc.org/pubs/pressre...

March 8, 2024: This Free COVID-19 Test Program Will be Suspended Orders for free at-home COVID-19 tests will be suspended on Friday, March 8, 2024. Find out more information on free testing resources in the COVIDTests.gov “Testing Resources” section or by calling 1-800-232-0233 (TTY 1-888-720-7489).

Just days after the CDC weakened its COVID isolation guidelines, the White House is suspending its free home rapid test program.

This week is your last chance to order free COVID rapid tests here: special.usps.com/testkits

It's been clear for 25 years, but today really underscored that the only consistent principle among the court's conservative judges is the desire for conservative outcomes. Federalism, originalism, textualism -- they're all just a means to an end, readily abandoned when inconvenient.

France has enshrined abortion rights in their constitution. Meanwhile in the US, SCOTUS is debating how many birthmarks a woman is allowed before being declared a witch

A little opossum with very big ears, looking up

front row at the poetry reading

Anything I can do to help. 😁