Night...

is only ONE of the MANY times our kitty is invisible.

The only reason you can see him

is that my Nikon INSISTED on using the flash.

Here in person, he's just an area where all light is absorbed.

If you see NOTHING, not even reflected light,

don't walk into it or sit on it,

as it's probably our cat.

A warm & fuzzy black hole.

He's also much quieter than our colored-for-daytime grey tabby.

I think it's part of the whole ninja gig.

He

is

night

silence

stealth

Professional killer.

Sweet kitty.

'Long as I'm bigger than 'im.

=)

xoxobb

(thus Day 18 of @just_go_do_it's 30 day photo challenge = DONE)

ah, caffeine.... a delightful, rapid-fire, (caffeine-fueled) video lesson

 


From Grey's Blog.

Heaven.

The BEST visual in my mind is his estimation of what a bug might experience after snacking on coffee beans... *happy sigh*

BTW, if you watched this, some of us ingest caffeine-as-a-migraine-remedy the old fashioned way. Via, you know, drinking coffee.

He also said what my biochemistry teacher said lo these many years ago: people have been researching this drug for EVER and have found virtually nothing about it that is bad for us.

AND, since my college days, they've discovered important health benefits.

So, if it works for you, no worries.

k. done now.

coffee cup is empty.

must. be. remedied.

xobb

Nabokov: butterfly evolution genius?

 
Check this article out (by Carl Zimmer), in the New York Times. Apparently, while not penning genius literary works, Nabokov was the curator of lepidoptera at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. And he didn't just dust the shelves.

In 1945, he wrote a paper on the Polyommatus blues.

copyright Lynne Kirton

Nabokov had done a bunch of careful work on these creatures, clarifying their differences and similarities, rearranging their family tree, making sense out of a group that had confounded many.

In that paper, "He envisioned them coming to the New World from Asia over millions of years in a series of waves."

Well, since then folks in lab coats who are good with DNA have been testing his theory.

"On Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, they reported that Nabokov was absolutely right. 'It’s really quite a marvel,' said Naomi Pierce of Harvard, a co-author of the paper."

Vindicated 65 years later.

=) Awesome.

Incidentally, he was a SELF TAUGHT lepidopterist.

Wow.

And motivated: "He used the proceeds of his second novel, 'King, Queen, Knave,' to finance an expedition to the Pyrenees, where he and his wife, Vera, netted over a hundred species."

=)


Sounds like a cool guy.

And a serious smarty pants.

Nice work, Vladimir!


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