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White lies keep society intact
AmyHIn other news, water is wet.
Bat Out of Hell? Egyptian Tomb Bat May Harbor MERS Virus
AmyH@Stephanie.
Deputies greeted by pot plant at front door in marijuana bust
AmyHStealthy like a fox.
Archaeologists Uncover First Use of Spices in European Cuisine
A political office that no one wants? Deep in Plaquemines Parish, it's true
ScienceShot: Facebook Is Making You Sad
AmyHBut Reader makes you happy!
Jindal administration says special congressional election not rigged
AmyHLOLOLOL. Yeah, right.
6 Louisiana cities among nation's 10 most expensive for health care, report says
AmyH#ohlouisiana
ScienceShot: A Shot of Coffee That Gets You Drunk
Arkansas school to arm teachers, staff
AmyHThis story is awful, but I can't help emphasizing the ABSOLUTE WORST detail: the fact that they used children to train these vigilante wanna-bes:
"Using students as actors helps trainers re-create the environment that teachers and staff would face in a typical school shooting, Hodoway explained. The students who participated in the exercise were children of the teachers and staff who were being trained."
In July in Jefferson Parish, the problem is teenage coyotes
AmyHGet off my lawn, you whipper-snapper coyotes!
Apes Capable of 'Mental Time Travel'
AmyHThe question is, when will we have an ape Doctor?
Ice cream and crime: Where cold cuisine and hot disputes intersect
AmyHPlease put some cookie dough bits in my assault with a deadly weapon.
SUNO is close to getting what it has lacked since Katrina: a library
ScienceShot: Vibrating Genitals may Ward off Predators
AmyHSometimes the headline speaks for itself.
Fat Cells Feel the Cold, Burn Calories for Heat
AmyHGood news! Now all I have to do is wear a freezer on my ass.
Saying it With Flowers—14,000 Years Ago
AmyH"which led some archaeological pundits to suggest that Neandertals were the original flower children,"
Leave the puns to professionals, archaeologists.
ScienceShot: 'Dead' Cabbage Keeps on Kicking
AmyHI, for one, welcome our new cabbage overlords.
huntingtonlibrary: William Sharp, one of the first...
William Sharp, one of the first chromolithographic printers in the U.S., created these extraordinary illustrations for the large folio Victoria Regia (1854) by John Fisk Allen. Allen, a well-known horticulturalist, cultivated a specimen of the rare, huge (up to 8 feet in diameter), fast-growing (up to an inch an hour!) water lily, native to the Amazon. After months of careful tending, the plant—named in honor of the recently-crowned Queen Victoria—blossomed on the evening of July 21, 1853. Sharp’s depictions of this exotic wonder—in various stages of bloom—were masterpieces and elevated the then-nascent art of chromolithography to spectacular new heights.
image captions: All images are from a copy of Victoria Regia in our collections. Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
ScienceShot: Your Tongue, Inside Out
ScienceShot: The Ghost of Oceans Past
AmyHSharks!
Caesar, the Orchid Chief
Raw Food Not Enough to Feed Big Brains
AmyHBraaaaaaaaaaaains!