Goodies // Random Awesomeness I Encounter

Hawks that hunt in packs

By Ben | animals, nature

Most birds of prey are solitary hunters. Not Harris's Hawks. "Harris's Hawk" by Alan Vernon [&hellip

3D Laser Scans of China's Supercave

By Ben | nature, science, technology

Southern China is home to some large caves, featuring some amazingly large chambers. A part [&hellip

Islands of the Four Mountains

By Ben | nature, photography, science

I love volcanoes. And their (not entirely) subtle reminder to us all that this Earth [&hellip

What is Sea Level?

By Ben | nature, science

I'd never given too much thought to how the elevation we call "sea level" is [&hellip

Whales Almost (Accidentally) Eat Divers

By Ben | animals, nature

Note: When you suddenly find yourself surrounded by a school of panicked tiny fish, you're [&hellip

Beautiful Maps: American Rivers in the Contiguous 48

By Ben | maps, nature

  Nelson Minar created this amazing map of the rivers in the contiguous 48 states. [&hellip

Supercell near Booker, Texas [gif]

By Ben | nature

by Head Like an Orange (UPDATE: the full video from which the gif was pulled is [&hellip

Slow Motion Rattling- Western Diamondback Rattlesnake

By Ben | animals, nature

Rattlesnakes can vibrate their tails with a frequency of 90 cycles per second. Try wiggling [&hellip

Wikimedia Commons Pictures of the Year: 2012

By Ben | animals, art, nature, photography

Out of the 988 featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons in 2012, the five below were [&hellip

Insect Portraits

By Ben | animals, nature

  via the Flickr Blog, where they have links to even more insect portraiture

A Forest Year

By Ben | nature

"A Forest Year was made from 40,000 still images taken from my front window over [&hellip

The American Government's Advice to Yeti Hunters, 1959

By Ben | funny, history, nature

"Item #2: In case "Yeyi" is traced it can be photographed or caught alive, but [&hellip

Lava Fountains vs the Empire State Building

By Ben | infographics, nature, science

Lava fountains are impressive. Recently Mt. Etna has been throwing up lava fountains that reach [&hellip

Cute NOVA cartoon; Gross tongue-eating parasite

By Ben | animals, nature, science

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327-bwMQI-Y] Parasites seem to have some of the craziest & most interesting life cycles. [&hellip

Compilation of videos showing the shockwave from the Chelyabinsk Meteor

By Ben | nature, science

I'm assuming if your co-workers understand Russian this video is NSFW. Chelyabinsk Meteor Shockwave Compilation

Weather Forecast for the week of December 21, 2012

By Ben | funny, nature

image source unknown- this iteration was found at facebook1st.com

Tennis-ball-sized Hail

By Ben | nature

YouTube link via

Beautiful Maps: Total Precipitable Water

By Ben | maps, nature

From tropic.ssec.wisc.edu via What If? "Air holds water. If you walled off a column of [&hellip

It's Not Global Warming, It's Really Just Ice Getting Wimpier. I swear.

By Ben | maps, nature

"The National Snow and Ice Data Center announced today (August 27th, 2012) that the 2007 [&hellip

Arctic Sea Ice Drops below 2007 Record

By Ben | nature, science

via earthobservatory.nasa.gov "By early July, Arctic sea ice melting was three weeks ahead of schedule, [&hellip

Hurricane Locations & Intensities Since 1851

By Ben | infographics, maps, nature

via infographicsonly.com

Sarychev Volcano Eruption as seen from the International Space Station

By Ben | nature

via youtube.com

Fire Ants Love Electricity. Bees do not.

By Ben | nature, technology

via

Amazing facts about the Carboniferous (a.k.a. Geology is cooler than you think)

By Ben | nature, science

TIL, upon the advent of wood [400mya], it took fungi 50mil yrs to evolve a [&hellip

'Brinicle' ice finger of death

By Ben | animals, nature

via bbc.co.uk The brinicle is pretty awesome, but any timelapse of star fish moving around [&hellip

Crater Lake Under the Stars

By Ben | nature, photography, space

via vimeo.com Beautiful time-lapse. Suddenly I have an urge to go West this winter

Toowoomba Flood 2011.01.10

By Ben | nature

via youtube.com Crazy flash flooding. A little reminder of how powerful a bit of water [&hellip