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How bats fly, walk and run. Check out the higher-definition versions of the videos here: http://xrl.us/bekyxi
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Tag: mammals
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OK, this is actually the coolest video ever.
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'A cat in Swindon has become a real cat burglar, in the last year he has stolen more than 30 teddies.'
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"BUT IT WAS CHARLIE SHOPSIN who told me about this: A PERSON WHO BUILT AN ELECTRONIC CALCULATOR using only objects found within the game’s level editor… SURE, ENJOY THE SIMPLE MATH, but if you do not watch to see the full reveal of the machine’s remarkable guts, I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU."
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‘As I wait, a young gentleman receives his book from Special Collections. It comes in a little packet, and when he pulls it out, I can see that it is smaller than his thumbnail. The look on his face, somewhere between surprise and annoyance, is priceless. He tries, momentarily, to read it, but is briskly defeated, and returns it to the counter. Curious, I order it myself. It turns out to be an 1896 Salmin edition of Galileo’s Letter to Cristina (1615), 15 x 9mm.’
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Good article about the death of the US financial system.
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‘I made this house for my cat, Olive.’
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Napowrimo #30: Advice for mice
Advice
for mice.
If Lanius excubitor
(the Great Grey Shrike)
should happen to impale you on
a big sharp spike,
it’s really nothing personal:
it just intends to rip
some chunks of flesh from off your bones
and needs a better grip.
They call the shrike the butcher bird
and butchery is harder
if you do it without any knives
and a thornbush for a larder.
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Napowrimo #22: the baboon
One night a belligerent young baboon
decided he wanted to challenge the moon.
So he pointed his colourful arse at the sky
defying the moon until, bye and bye,
just as his legs were starting to ache
and his vertical bottom beginning to shake,
along came some clouds and the moon went in;
which he decided to count as a win.