Leahgates

pickleandharveybulldogblog:

Apparently Pickle & Harvey had a rough night.

tennants-companion:

doomslock:

Doctor Who AU

└ In which the Doctor has eyebrows.

this makes me rly uncomfortable

vivianredwood:

Pug Appreciation Post

“It’s because I’m a turtle, you junk-food junkie! Now put me down!”

Via Mark Dumont.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Turtles, Unusual Animals

In honor of today’s Indy 500, CO is proud to present…Super Dogs! Look at ‘em ZOOM!

To the winner goes the……..corn?

“I’d like to share photos of my Super Dogs. The blond dog’s name is Moya. The black and tan dog is Sancha- both Catalan Shepards. They love to play together!” -Cuteporter Wendy T., The Netherlands.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: dogs

PENN STATE (US) — The feeding behavior seen in mosquitoes carrying malaria may be an immune response, not the parasite’s manipulation of the insect’s activity for its own survival.

“Normally, after a female mosquito ingests a blood meal, she matures her eggs and does not take another one until the meal is digested,” says Lauren J. Cator, postdoctoral fellow in entomology at Penn State.

“Yes, false rape accusations happen. Run the protocol anyway. I’ve heard that perhaps the military has the highest number of ‘em. True or not, RUN THE PROTOCOL ANYWAY. Because in 15 years of investigating rape accusations, I can count those that panned out as false on one hand. Meanwhile, the one time I almost skipped the protocol, the one time I almost didn’t believe a petty officer, because I was naive as an investigator and a young woman, because her commanding officer described her as “a party girl, always late, always out drinking, don’t bother with this one”, she turned out to be the victim of one of the most brutal assaults I’ve ever investigated. She shouldn’t have still been -alive-, let alone up and making the accusation. So let me repeat: five false accounts in fifteen years. And one time I almost failed a woman ‘cause of the bullshit way it’s normal to talk about us. Take your shipmates’ word, and then run the protocol. Every. Single. Time.”

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 - JAG lawyer, speaking to my husband’s plant during Sexual Assault Prevention Month. (via circusbones)

This hits home for me.

(via heirofmedusa)

Look at these great photos (#1-5) as seen on My Modern Met.com. (Others from NG site.) They’re all part of the 25th Annual National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest, going on now. Click the logo at left to enter (you’ll need to set up a National Geographic account, or log in with an account from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, etc.)

1. Photo and hover by Gary Migues/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
2. Photo and hover by Adam Lichtcsien/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
3. Photo and hover by Petra Bensted/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
4. Photo and hover by Richard Sidey/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
5. Photo and hover by Peter Stanley/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
6. Photo and hover by Mary Gretchen Kaplan/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.
7. Photo and hover by Francisco Mingorance/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest.

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Birds, Blorp, Foxes, Gorillas, Penguins

Everybody flap your flippers!

Today is the 13th World Turtle Day, the annual holiday founded in 2000 by American Tortoise Rescue!

There are so many ways to celebrate! Starting with giving turtles a helping hand.

Or two.

Or three.

Play connect the dots. Baby tortoises love this game.

Tongue twister competitions! Spiny terrapin-spiny terrapin-spiny terrapin.

Slow down for turtles.

See who can say, “AWWWW”, the most:

Another great way to celebrate is to donate to your favorite save the turtles organization!

Australian Western Swamp Tortoises, Asian Spiny Terrapin, Green Sea Turtles, Egyptian Tortoise, American Western Pond Turtle,  Zooborns and the Monterey Bay Aquarium

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Tortoises, Turtles

Bam Bam the grizzly bear and Vali the chimpanzee wondering what to talk about, wondering if they have anything in common.

Bam Bam is playing hard to get. Vali thinks they are playing tag.

Things can get a little wild on a first date. Sometimes it’s love at first bite.

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Aww, they really do loff each other, Mail Online

Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: Bears, Interspecies Snorgling, Primates

Eesha Khare is an 18-year-old high school senior. She’s going to Harvard in the fall and uses her cellphone. Typical 18-year-old girl stuff. Oh, she also invented a supercapacitor that charges cell phones in 30 seconds! According to Clutch:

“Eesha Khare, 18, invented a fast-charging device called the supercapacitor. It is miniature energy-storing device that can juice a phone to full charge within 20-to-30 seconds.”

Apparently she developed the device because she got tired of her phone not being charged. When my phone is dying, the best I can think to do is log off of Twitter for a while. This young woman is sharp!

Not only that, she’s doing it with great intentions and ambitious hopes for all of our futures.

“Khare hopes her creation will ‘set the world on fire,’ eventually having enough energy to power automobiles.

So far the burgeoning scientist has powered a LED, but she hopes a few tweaks can lead to the placement of the supercapacitor in cellphones and other technological devices. Khare wants to cut down our dependence on electrical outlets.”

She’s smart and invested in sustainability. So dreamy! You go girl!

Image via.

UC DAVIS (US) — Don’t lose the organism in the excitement over its genes, say biologists, who caution against straying too far from the actual plants, animals, and microorganisms.

The team suggests that decades of focus on genes have led the scientific community away from a balanced exploration of the organisms that those genes define.

EMORY (US) — By draining calcium from the blood cells of fruit flies, parasitic wasps are able to switch off the flies’ immune system, new research shows.

The finding could offer new insight into how pathogens break through a host’s defenses, scientists say.

DUKE (US) — A modified polio virus appears to be effective in attacking glioblastoma brain tumor cells, researchers report in an early study to establish proper dosing levels.

Tested in an ongoing phase 1 study, the treatment capitalizes on the discovery that cancer cells have an abundance of receptors that work like magnets drawing the polio virus, which then infects and kills the cells.

U. LEEDS (UK) — Declines in the biodiversity of pollinating insects and wild plants in Britain, Belgium, and the Netherlands have slowed in recent years.

Researchers found evidence of dramatic reductions in the diversity of species ibetween the 1950s and 1980s, but researchers say the picture brightened markedly after 1990, with a slowdown in local and national biodiversity losses among bees, hoverflies, and wild plants.

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

We Tracked Down Our Biggest Troll… and Kind of Liked Him:

motherjones:

Ever wonder what an internet troll is like in person? We met one in his lair.

No seriously, he was really nice!

this actually looks like a really good series on both the politics of science and the cultural dynamics of the internet

ionlyweardresses:

Nigel Bear is under the weather and can’t play or romp for a week.  Mr Wrinkly Wrink Fluffington is downstairs resting on the soft carpet. 

After my Tuesday 10K, I decided to bother him. 
You would bother him too.

It’s true.  I would.

marcinthelotus:

I just had a guy start explaining to me all the basics of how to do the farming skill on runescape when I’m lvl I dunno.. somewhere in the 50’s… and I just kept on saying “I know yeah.”

And I couldn’t figure out why he wouldn’t stop. I was so confused and he was annoying as hell.  Then he asked me if I had a boyfriend.

Then I realized he thought I was a girl.  He thought I was a girl and he was mansplaining.

alioutfit:

You have to admire Ali’s work ethic. Yesterday was a public holiday, but because his boss has gone to Turkey for a week, Ali went into the shop so as not to fall behind on the work that needed to be done. 

Another addition to the monochromatic outfit collection here also.

That shirt is spectacular and so is that belt

trungles:

upgraders:

a pack of “nice guys” should be called a fedoration 

I have never reblogged something so fast before in my life.

worldofbulldog:

I’m only asking for human food