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Here is a photo of a girl sitting on a taxidermied donkey with a creepy Santa. Merry Christmas!
Octopuses have been discovered tip-toeing with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides, then reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection or deception, a new study says.
“We were blown away,” said biologist Mark Norman of discovering the octopus behavior off Indonesia. “It was hard not to laugh underwater and flood your [scuba] mask.”
The coconut-carrying behavior makes the veined octopus the newest member of the elite club of tool-using animals—and the first member without a backbone, researchers say.
Virgin Galactic is set to unveil SpaceShipTwo (SS2), the world’s first commercial manned spaceship.
These are some amazing photos of snowflakes.
Nerdy physics/astronomy humor FTW. If you don’t get it (and it’s OK if you don’t, really), you might refer to Wikipedia’s article on blue shift. You can buy variations of this bumper sticker all over the web, but I’ve no word, alas, on how to score one of these official APS versions.
