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Geeky but somehow admirable. via Core77
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Author: Harry
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Non-news story of the week
From the BBC: “A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.”
Well duh.
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via Arts & Letters Daily. Check out the slideshow
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Dredgers! The quarry lorries of the sea.
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via via negativa
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A mayfly hatch on radar. via Pharyngula
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beetle
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globes
Sherry mentioned my wasp nest on her blog and via the comments was revealed this hand-made hornet’s nest by papermaker Gin Petty. You can read her full account of making it here.
And browsing around Flickr I found these pictures by Andrew Dill of a wasp nest built on a window:
Here’s something I learned today. ‘Hymenoptera’ (i.e. bees, wasps and ants) are not called that because of all those virgin workers, as I’d always vaguely assumed. Rather it’s
from Greek humenopteros ‘membrane-winged,’ from humēn ‘membrane’ + pteron ‘wing.’
Which perhaps I should have realised, since Hymen wasn’t god of virginity but marriage.
And here’s a good word: haplo-diploid.
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Scallops with serrano ham and sherry
Based loosely on ‘angels on horseback’ and a Spanish dish. No pictures, I’m afraid.
Mix up a little olive oil, lemon juice and pepper. Dip each scallop in the mix and wrap it in a narrow strip of ham. Fry the hammy scallops until just done. Deglaze the pan with dry sherry and pour over the scallops.
I actually cooked it in a frying pan on the barbecue, but only because the kitchen is so hot at the moment.
It was a tad too salty but delicious. A thinner-cut, less salty ham (prosciutto, if you don’t mind dropping the Spanish theme) would probably sort that out.
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which is more appealing than it possibly sounds…
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Jamaican soul
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This is such a brilliant idea
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hand-carved USB memory sticks
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weirdnesses
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one for the sports fans