nothoo.com » Nature http://blog.nothoo.com meritorious marginalia Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Its a Shame That We Do Not Have Monkeys http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/20/its-a-shame-that-we-do-not-have-monkeys/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/20/its-a-shame-that-we-do-not-have-monkeys/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:01:00 +0000 jeff http://nothoo.com/?p=553 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Monkey Fun
Äffchen / Little Monkeys by only_point_five

Curse you simian god, why, why oh why do we not have monkeys (money quote leads paragraph two) in North America?! Of course, if we did they would have probably all have been killed off by now in some sort of monkeys-are-terrorist pronouncement by the TSA.

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Montauk Monster

Just in case you have not seen the pictures of the “Montauk Monster” I kindly prefaced this post with one. Now for the interesting part. The fascinating science blog Tetrapod Zoology breaks down the identification of what the monster actually is.

What has caused widespread confusion and speculation is that, while the lower jaw appears to have had a jagged row of pointy teeth, the upper jaw sports a hooked bony beak. This structure has led to the carcass being termed a ‘rodent-like creature with a dinosaur beak’, as an ‘eagle-dog’, and to suggestions that it might be the carcass of a turtle that had lost its shell. Because these suggestions are all, to put it mildly, a tad unlikely, there have also been murmurings of a hoax or viral ad campaign.

While you are poking around Tetrapod Zoology and thinking about other cryptid identifications you should check out this post about odd whale skulls.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/07/the-montauk-monster-id-dissected/feed/ 3 Macro Insect Photos (Opo Terser) http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/05/macro-insect-photos-opo-terser/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/05/macro-insect-photos-opo-terser/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:42:18 +0000 jeff http://nothoo.com/?p=486 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Dragonfly by Opo Terser

A Dragonfly by Opp Terser (currently my desktop background)

I posted previously about the awesome macro photos from Opo Terser at Flickr, well now you can revel in an interview with Thomas “Opp Terser” Shahan.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/08/05/macro-insect-photos-opo-terser/feed/ 0 Stars My Destination (Apologies Alfred Bester) http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/18/stars-my-destination-apologies-to-the-great-alfred-bester/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/18/stars-my-destination-apologies-to-the-great-alfred-bester/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:35:36 +0000 jeff http://nothoo.com/?p=406 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> The stars are so very far away. Further than you and I can fathom. Could they be within our reach? Stars are lonely but we might visit them to slake their thirst for humanity. Would this help? Doubtful. A star’s life is a solitary life. Burning slow like a candle or popping like an old light bulb stars don’t choose, they just do. Small and dense or so big that they collapse in on themselves, stars live a life we can not imagine. Young in the millions, old in the hundreds. Death is always at hand, somewhere. Supernova.

What would we have in this world without stars? Not much, some gases, maybe… We can ponder life without stars, yet our very pondering would be absent if it were not for the stars. Metal, silicon, complex chains of protein and amino acid — all thanks to the stars. The Stars might be our destination but what is our starting point?

The stars they do not worry or care, they just are. We on the other hand, hurry, hurry, to the next banality. Missing our chance at stardom. So disconnected are we, that we overload the beauty that is a star with the ultimate in banality: a person, idolized, captured on film, enshrined by the masses into the collective conscious. Hardly a star, hardly even human. We can not worship stars, of any kind. This is folly. Worship is folly. Our lot is to cast about looking for the spark of happiness, the thing that makes us continue. That might even make us feel fulfilled. Stars, they just do not care. Stars just are.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/18/stars-my-destination-apologies-to-the-great-alfred-bester/feed/ 0 Awesome Macro Spider Pictures http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/06/awesome-macro-spider-pictures/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/06/awesome-macro-spider-pictures/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:43:29 +0000 jeff http://nothoo.com/2008/07/06/awesome-macro-spider-pictures/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

Adult Male Habronattus coecatus Jumping Spider

Originally uploaded by Opo Terser

Opo Terser keeps producing the most amazing macro photos of insects and spiders (lots and lots of bad ass jumping spiders). I love these photos so much that I have subscribed to Opo Terser’s upload stream as an RSS feed. Awesome stuff.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2008/07/06/awesome-macro-spider-pictures/feed/ 2 The Real Surprise is that the Chinese Did NOT Hunt Them to Extinction http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/08/the-real-surprise-is-that-the-chinese-did-not-hunt-them-to-extinction/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/08/the-real-surprise-is-that-the-chinese-did-not-hunt-them-to-extinction/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:16:33 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/08/08/the-real-surprise-is-that-the-chinese-did-not-hunt-them-to-extinction/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]>

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/08/the-real-surprise-is-that-the-chinese-did-not-hunt-them-to-extinction/feed/ 0 Spider Bite, Hah! http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/07/spider-bite-hah/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/07/spider-bite-hah/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:39:16 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/08/07/spider-bite-hah/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> If you thought that those pictures I linked to of the spider bite victim were bad, do not click on this link.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/08/07/spider-bite-hah/feed/ 0 Japanese Name Boat Enola Gay — Slaughter Dolphins http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/03/13/japanese-name-boat-enola-gay-slaughter-dolphins/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/03/13/japanese-name-boat-enola-gay-slaughter-dolphins/#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:28:22 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2007/03/13/japanese-name-boat-enola-gay-slaughter-dolphins/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This video of a Dolphin massacre in Japan is pretty bad. Usually I have a pretty good tolerance for this type of thing, but this one was very unsettling.

Tip o’ the hat to Pharyngula

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2007/03/13/japanese-name-boat-enola-gay-slaughter-dolphins/feed/ 5 Squid http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/23/squid/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/23/squid/#comments Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:45:08 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/11/23/squid/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> A post about squid.

Gander at this picture:

Tea anyone?

read this book: City of Saints and Madmen – Jeff Vandermeer

And finally, try the calamari appetizer at Busara quite simply the best squid that I have ever eaten.

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]]> http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/23/squid/feed/ 0 Random Bird Videos http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/06/random-bird-videos/ http://blog.nothoo.com/2006/11/06/random-bird-videos/#comments Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:50:46 +0000 jeff http://www.nothoo.com/wordpress/2006/11/06/random-bird-videos/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Some strange and entertaining bird videos.

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