LIZ JONES: Honour killings? What we’ve done to young Emma is just as shameful | Mail Online
OK, that settles it, the Daily Mail's entire business model is now based on trolling and linkbait. via Mitch Benn on Twitter.
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BBC – Earth News – Auklets and penguins: birds use feathers ‘to touch’
Birds may [...]
Leah Evans Textiles
Quilts with map designs. via MAKE.
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Penguin Photography » Antarctica Among the Penguins
'Photographing penguins is at once ridiculously easy and frustrating. My 300mm lens is, often, too much magnification. I keep backing up, and the penguin I’m concentrating on keeps following me, so we chase each other around the colony.'
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Blondie And Blackie – Antarctica among the penguins
'Blondie looks like a regular penguin, except where he should be black, he’s bleached blond…. Blackie is a little different. Where she should be white, she is jet black—in fact, she is entirely black, beak to tail.'
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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | New military honour for penguin
'A penguin who is a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army is set to be bestowed with a new military honour.'
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I´ve got a couple of hours in Puerto Ayora (on Santa Cruz, in the Galapagos), so I thought I´d post a quick note.
I can recommend the Galapagos. For a start, the landscape is more varied and more beautiful than I expected; somehow in my head it was all rocks, but from island to island the [...]