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Hello everyone!

I have been posting pretty regularly over on the Slater Museum's blog, Northwest Nature Notes. If you're craving more potent ponderables to puzzle your puzzler, head over to SlaterMuseum.blogspot.com!

Recent highlights include:

Check out this guy! Look at that fancy tail patterning!

Oh hey, and this guy too...

And this one....

And this one...

And dinosaurs?!

What's going on here?! Why do they all have ringed tails?!

Let your curiosity run free like a 10-year-old in at a petting zoo!

Random Thought of the Day

Nature is soooo cool!

Haha get it? Cool? As in cold? I'm so funny.



The starfish didn't think it was funny, Robert...

Random Thought of the Day

Otter is displeased...

"There is no fucking way you're getting me to take a bath in that.
Look at it! Ice? Are you kidding me?
Does anyone really enjoy taking ice baths?!"

Lack of Posting...

Sorry for the lack of postings everyone. I have recently received control of the Slater Museum of Natural History's Facebook page where I regularly post a variety of my ponderings. If you'd like to check out some of those potent, perplexing ponderables click here!

Keep a look-out for more ponderables posted right here as well!

And for good measure, a picture of a tree-shrew pooping in a pitcher plant:

Happy Birthday, Me!

My blog has officially turned one year old!

In this same amount of time, I could have:

• cultured 37 generations of fruit flies for genetic study,
• mastered two complete languages or twelve foreign alphabets,
• written 315 moderately-sized novels and one work of young-adult fiction,
• constructed 52 two-room houses for those in poverty,
• woven five 4' x 6' oriental rugs,
• sailed around the world four-and-a-half times,
• driven the Pan-American Highway ten times by motorcycle,
• slept,
• or kept-up on my schoolwork.

I guess I'm glad I made this blog instead of doing all those things...

Random Thought of the Day

Robots are going to take over the world.

One book at a time...


Courtesy of our friends over at The Proceedings of the Ever So Strange.

Random Thought of the Day

Remember a while back, I posted about the Power of Words.

This post was a little long (I mean, very long) and you probably didn't read it, but here's a great video illustrating everything I hoped you would learn from my "Power of Words" post.

The words we use to describe color actually change the way we see color!



And as a little bonus, here's the RadioLab episode on this very topic:

Abstract things like time, thought, and understanding don't exist unless we have words for thinking about them...