"As I write this, there's an insane dust storm that's sweeping over Sydney. I found out about it by seeing a Twitter post from Dan Hill. I'm based in San Francisco but found it so extraordinary I decided to go and see if I could spot pictures coming in and make a little gallery out of them."

"However, what this research has shown is that this is not the case. The electron in fact takes several paths at once. ... This is actually very remarkable because it means that nature specifically engineered a molecule that manifests quantum behaviour on a larger scale then it usually appears."

"SKYplay depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky & real clouds at that moment with another object."

"To research my new book, Elephants on Acid, I scoured scientific archives searching for the most bizarre experiments of all time — the kind that are mind-twistingly, jaw-droppingly strange... the kind that make you wonder, "How did anyone ever conceive

"In what could be the most extreme case of transsexualism ever discovered, scientists have discovered that male African bat bugs sport female genitalia, and some females have genitalia that mimic the male’s version of the female bits - as well as their

"OMG DON’T JUMP! You have so much to live for …"

"Clark Sorensen has created some of the most amazing and beautiful urinals one is likely to ever see."

"Researchers from St Andrews University have shown that the animals intentionally modify or repeat their signals to get their messages across."

My new desktop background, by Snarfy.

"Following a gruelling audition process, one solo worm was hand selected to perform its own music, without proviso, upon a specially adapted and destabilised FM synthesis circuit disembowelled from a Yamaha PSS-470"

"Scientists from the University of Bristol observed that, when ants were foraging on rough terrain, some of them used their own bodies to plug potholes. ... As the traffic diminishes, the ant pops out and heads home"

"A duck which survived being shot before spending two days in a refrigerator has now overcome major surgery - despite briefly dying on the operating table." Zombie duck!

"This site is a collection of stories regarding Honeybees and beekeeping. In each one I present a bee’s eye view of major events in the life of colony of honeybees."

"In the 1960s, Dr. Peter Witt gave drugs to spiders and observed their effects on web building."

What a headline!

"Due to its siting at the end of harbor, the architects chose to conceptualize the project as belonging to the "green nerve" rather than the surrounding urban structure."

Soft rocks for your lounge/bedroom/etc.

Top 10 page of an image ratings site.

An argument for the aestehtics of windfarms.

"The other day while I was working in the yard my son urgently called to me. 'Dad, a praying mantis caught a hummingbird!'"