That’s really plenty of activity for a Caturday.
Image via Cheezburger.com
Significant cell death
Bleach also works. And high concentrations of ethanol (works for humans too).
Also, just leaving the petri dish out on your lab bench to desiccate.
Movie Food I: Mickey, Beanstalks & Jell-O
Imagination is one of the key tools in any great chef’s arsenal. The ability to imagine something new and different is the first step in creating it. Along those lines, these posts are a salute to some of my favorite fictitious foods from television, books, and movies. No surprise, Disney movies claim a few of those spots.
Disney’s Mickey and the Beanstalk
In this Disney short, Mickey, Goofy, and Donald find themselves at the top of the beanstalk and roaming across the Giant’s opulent table. While everything looks delicious, watching Goofy swim and eat his way out of a jello mold sparked a memorable food dream for me.
What are your favorite made up foods?
Meet the Sunda Flying Lemur
The Sunda Flying Lemur (Galeopterus variegatus) is not a lemur AT ALL (but still a primate). It looks like part eyes-too-far-apart squirrel and part kite. This crazy thing glides like nobody’s business from tree to tree all night long eating up fruits, leaves and flowers. The skin flap that allows the animal to glide is called a patagium and when the limbs are stretched to pull it taut this creates a parachute-style extension.
This Southeast Asian superstar, animal-kite hybrid is able to glide across the span of 100 meters while its own body length is just under 40 cm (not counting the tail)! 100 meters……just repeat it to yourself again….yeah that’s incredible. Continue reading “Meet the Sunda Flying Lemur”
GeoGuessr: Addendum
I don’t know how I missed including this xkcd with Eva Amsen’s Have Science Will Travel post on GeoGuessr. I know you have ideas about why I failed, but those are not nice thoughts and my mother reads this blog. So, keep them to yourself.
Also, are we rationing the letter “E” and I didn’t get the memo?
The Finch and Pea 