Our team presentation - for the win...

Sorry to keep posting this my Non-Tennessee Treasures. It's a work in progress for a class I'm taking. It's due today thought so this should be the final version...

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I hope your birthday is spectacular !

I hope your birthday is spectacular !

I've never done a #treetuesday before.

I've never done a #treetuesday before.

Originally shared by Native American Encyclopedia

Do you know the Chippewa made a medicine from Black and White birch (B. papyrifera) for stomach pain? http://bit.ly/1hJN37o #NativePlants

Don't even think about not adding her. Just do it NOW.

Don't even think about not adding her. Just do it NOW.

Originally shared by Rebecca Bardess

Squee!!! Significant circle number alert. I kinda sorta hate to do this but .... I'm SO close to 30,000 followers now. Any chance you could send some chums my way? If you've got any value from me over the years, I'd be super grateful for your help. If not, no probs. Thanks to everyone who helps. You're splendid. x

This one has some nice features and is my newest toy for #sketchgurusaturday posts.

This one has some nice features and is my newest toy for #sketchgurusaturday posts.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hash.sketch_free

#rustysunday

#rustysunday
This shot was taken right before the one I used yesterday for sg-saturday...
If someone could tag the appropriate people for me, Amanda Wyckoff . I'll do better next week...

The best camera is the one you have with you right ? Well how about, the best shot is the one you take ?

The best camera is the one you have with you right ? Well how about, the best shot is the one you take ?
BTW- Do yourself a favor and click on this hashtag #sketchgurusaturday
"for a good time" :-)

This circle has brought much to be glad for to my stream.

This circle has brought much to be glad for to my stream.

Originally shared by Simona AN

 /\„,„/\ 
 ( =';'=) 
   /♥♥\   
(.\.. . . /.)  *CAT CIRCLE*
                           
              (^..^)ﾉ The   #CATCIRCLE  for my best friends (^..^)ﾉ

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings. ~ William Ralph Inge
    
You want a PAWESOME stream? Add CAT CIRCLE in your circles!

This is a circle of great humans, smart, talented, sensitive, with a good sense of humor, who interact very well and help each other!
Specific cat-pages and their curators are included by default. 

If you want to be added or out just tell me!
If you're notified, you're in CAT CIRCLE!

Everybody wants to be... in #CARCIRCLE  

Welcome Newcomers!
♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ 
Brian Setzer - Everybody wants to be a cat
♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♪ ♫ ♫ ♪ 
Every week I try to find a new version for the welcome song...
 
#Caturday   #OneCatADayKeepsTheDoctorAway   #MyBelovedCats   #CaturdayEveryday   #CatsBigAndSmallTheBest   #HQSPAnimals   #WildLifeInTheCity   #CatLoversNetwork   #CircleCaturday   #CircleCurators   #Take2Seconds  to pet a cat!

My #baturdat offering is symbolic this week. My question is: Did King James keep his bats in a belfry or the closet ?

My #baturdat offering is symbolic this week. My question is: Did King James keep his bats in a belfry or the closet ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_(heraldry)

My favorite day is #goaturday

My favorite day is #goaturday
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91518-goat-on-a-cow/

Could this have been the very first #caturday ?

Could this have been the very first #caturday ?
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/science-cave-paintings-brazil-01529.html

Well it's #sketchgurusaturday and I've been playing again. I used a few toys for this one including Sketch HD from the playstore. Christina Lihanipaula contreras Amanda WyckoffOscar Lovett

Well it's #sketchgurusaturday and I've been playing again. I used a few toys for this one including Sketch HD from the playstore. Christina Lihanipaula contreras Amanda WyckoffOscar Lovett

Darn it- I asked for Wrigley's not wiggly...

Darn it- I asked for Wrigley's not wiggly...

Originally shared by B H

"Bubble Gum", art by Liam Peters.
http://lpeters.deviantart.com/ #artwork   #spider

Its not Saturday and its not sketchguru either... TGIFriday

Its not Saturday and its not sketchguru either... TGIFriday

Thanks Chris Veerabadran for this and many other delightful posts.

Thanks Chris Veerabadran for this and many other delightful posts.

Originally shared by Rajini Rao

See It with Flowers: A BioSensor for Radiation

✿ The stamen hairs of the common spiderwort (Tradescantia) are made up of rows of cells in single file, like beads on a string. Fuzzy and blue, they emerge by the hundreds around the stamens that hold up the bright yellow, pollen-filled anthers in the flower center. In 1975, a scientist named Sparrow made a remarkable discovery: the stamen hairs were highly sensitive to nuclear radiation, mutating from blue to pink like the floral equivalent of the canary in the coal mine! The mutation frequency is linear down to very low doses and low exposure rates such that counting the number of pink cells as a percentage of blue ones gives an accurate reading of radiation exposure. Since the cells divide in sequence, the position of the pink cell tells when the radiation exposure occurred. The flowers have been used to monitor radiation leaks around nuclear plants in Japan or as a biosensor for chemical pollutants (http://goo.gl/GTMi9C).

✿ As if this biological oddity were not enough, the flower enjoys a romantic history dating to Captain John Smith, the legendary American settler who was plucked from the perils of death at the hands of the Powhotan tribe by the chief's daughter Pocohontas. When Smith left Virginia in 1609, he carried with him spiderwort seeds to his friend John Tradescant the Elder, a master gardener in England. The plant was named Tradescantia virginiana in the latter's honor (http://goo.gl/u9dwVM).

Image Credits: Tradescantia from the garden of Chris Veerabadran whose question about the flower name inspired this post. Thanks, Chris! 

Staminal Hair from www.microscopy-uk.org.uk
Video: Cytoplasmic Streaming in Tradescantia Stamen Hair Cells

#ScienceEveryday

#throwbackthursday

#throwbackthursday
1974 Senior Prom

Teller speaketh ?

Teller speaketh ?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2014/04/23/306158160/for-shakespeares-450th-birthday-heres-an-unusual-tempest?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nprmusic&utm_term=music&utm_content=20140423

The Rev. Theo approves.

The Rev. Theo approves.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/church-hosts-services-on-stage-at-local-strip-club-for-easter-sunday-118484/

I am not even slightly interested but I'm betting a few of you might be. If not - sorry for the jetsam...

I am not even slightly interested but I'm betting a few of you might be. If not - sorry for the jetsam...

Originally shared by Rand Fishkin

Announcing IMEC Lab: A collective to help run tests in search engines & social media

http://bit.ly/1myfOqM <----- I love running tests and learning more about how Google Search, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, et al. work. But I need help to scale these efforts. If you can help, please apply to join, and even if you can't, please help this post spread to reach others. Thanks!

Cool ?

Cool ?

Originally shared by AsapSCIENCE

Water + physics = trippy

Having Thirst World Problems ?

Having Thirst World Problems ? 
This could be the answer...
http://www.palcohol.com/home.html

This says I'm a silly old bear but I've always been more like Piglet I think.

This says I'm a silly old bear but I've always been more like Piglet I think.
http://blogs.disney.com/oh-my-disney/2014/04/21/which-winnie-the-pooh-character-are-you/?cmp=SMC

Happy Easter Everybody

Happy Easter Everybody
Bliss Morgan shared a picture that reminded me of this.

Spank those egg whites like naughty school girls indeed.

Spank those egg whites like naughty school girls indeed.

Originally shared by Jerry James Stone

Bourbon & Vanilla Bean Marshmallows

What better way to celebrate Jesus making a comeback and #420 on the same day, than with these mallows?
http://cookingstoned.tv/recipe/bourbon-vanilla-bean-marshmallows/

#bourbon #recipe

Crack Squirrels (first featured on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry podcast) Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz from http://goo.gl/MSvNBy

Crack Squirrels (first featured on the Indiefeed Performance Poetry podcast) Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz from http://goo.gl/MSvNBy
for #squirrelsaturday  

In the mid-1980s, New York City had a serious problem
and that problem was Crack Squirrels.

Crack Squirrels! the newspaper headlines read.
Crack Squirrels! The local news anchors intoned.
Crack Squirrels! Crack Squirrels!

In the mid-1980s, the Northern part of Central Park
had become infested with Crack Squirrels.
Wild-eyed, craven-mouthed, mad Crack Squirrels.
Jonesing, addicted, twitching Crack Squirrels.
Crack Squirrels who’d do anything for their next fix.

Crack Squirrels! How did this happen? The citizens
of New York City asked after hearing of joggers
being attacked, of bloody scratched up school children,
shaky home video footage of the swarming Crack Squirrels.
Who got these squirrels so addicted to crack!?

In the mid-1980s, the crack epidemic hit New York City hard.
The newly minted-addicts took their rocks to Central Park
to hit their high. When they were done, they left their trash
behind: crack vials, dosed aluminum foil, discarded pipes.

While scavenging for food, the jovial, fat and stupid squirrels
of Central Park – who had been, up to this point, straight-edge
vegans! – got curious and began sniffling the empty vials,
licking the pipes and foil, and they liked it. They liked it a lot.
They liked it too much. They became Crack Squirrels.

Crack squirrels, the police officers said, are becoming
a problem. The tourists don’t know any better. The injuries
are no joke. Squirrels can cause some serious damage,
especially Crack Squirrels.

We need to detox these squirrels! said the animal rights
activists. We need to sedate squirrels and bring them
to a crack-free environment!

No, what we need to do is kill these damn squirrels,
said the republicans. The last things the taxpayers
should be doing is paying for Crack Squirrels to go
to rehab. What we need to do is poison them.

Poison them with what, crack? said the cynics.

Hey, what if a hawk ate a crack squirrel,
said the paranoid hippies. Would it become
a crack hawk? Because that would be a bad scene, man.

No, look, said the zoologists. Squirrels can’t survive
on crack alone. These squirrels aren’t eating, they are
barely drinking, they are spending their days attacking
people for crack. These animals aren’t long for this world.
What everyone should be focused on is how to get humans
to stop taking crack, and once we’ve figured that out,
the squirrel problem will take care of itself.

Wait, wait, wait, what if a coyote eats a crack hawk,
asked the stoner college kids, would it become a crack coyote?
Seriously, I’ve heard there are coyotes like in the ramble,
and imagine if those coyotes become crack coyotes.
I would carry like a whole bunch of crack on me at all times,
and if a crack coyote would come after me, I’d toss the crack
in one direction, and run in the others, and I’d be like,
“Fooled your Crack Coyote!”And I’d be alive.

Nah man, said his stoner friend. I’d carry the carcass
of a crack hawk with me everywhere, because I don’t think
the crack coyote would even know what crack is, right?
Think about it.

Yeah well, said the stoner college kid, Good luck trying
to hunt and kill a crack hawk. Cause, if that’s your plan,
man, if that’s your solution to this whole thing,
That’s the dumbest fucking plan I’ve ever heard.
I’m serious. The dumbest.
http://goo.gl/MSvNBy

A great link for my batty besties...

A great link for my batty besties...
http://www.incrediblebats.com/batinfo.html
#baturday

Now that's what I call a "Hangout" Doesn't this just shout "HIRL" for the #goaturday crowd ?

Now that's what I call a "Hangout" Doesn't this just shout "HIRL" for the #goaturday  crowd ? 
http://www.capturedoorcounty.com/photos/1170655?utm_campaign=Google%2B+Button&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Google

Okay #caturday people ! Check out this place catsinfineart.com

Okay #caturday  people ! Check out this place catsinfineart.com 
http://catsfineart.com/html/cat_beach_17.php

My contribution to the #sketchgurusaturday stream this week is from a shot I took last week at my mother in laws home. I tried something a little different this time. Instead of taking a shot and then thinking about guru-izing it, I tried to get one just to make it magic from the start.

My contribution to the #sketchgurusaturday   stream this week is from a shot I took last week at my mother in laws home. I tried something a little different this time. Instead of taking a shot and then thinking about guru-izing it, I tried to get one just to make it magic from the start.
I love these guys -> Amanda Wyckoff & paula contreras & Christina Lihani & Oscar Lovett

I found this cool tool for collaborations. No download needed to play along and nothing to register or subscribe to. Here is the link if you want to check it out. Go ahead and play with it. Add your own Easter items or move mine around. I whipped this demo up in about fifteen minutes and most of that time was just looking for cool(ish) stuff to add..

I found this cool tool for collaborations. No download needed to play along and nothing to register or subscribe to. Here is the link if you want to check it out. Go ahead and play with it. Add your own Easter items or move mine around. I whipped this demo up in about fifteen minutes and most of that time was just looking for cool(ish) stuff to add..
http://vyew.com/room#/24379/The_Easter_Teddy_Playhouse

This is an awesome site. You sign up and list some books you have but don't need anymore. Other peeps do the same and when you see one you need, just send them a msg and they mail it to you.

This is an awesome site. You sign up and list some books you have but don't need anymore. Other peeps do the same and when you see one you need, just send them a msg and they mail it to you. 
I've been downloading some free e-books too. They have a daily offering of about a half dozen kindle editions in a variety of categories. I've heard it's a great way to save money (lots of money) on text books.
http://booklending.com/

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A little tweaking shouldn't hurt.

A little tweaking shouldn't hurt.

So, apparently there's a #treetuesday thing ? Well, this one seemed pretty awesome...

So, apparently there's a #treetuesday  thing ? Well, this one seemed pretty awesome...

TANSTAAFL you moochers...

TANSTAAFL you moochers...
meme and graphic by Tracy Knauss:
"For the rightwinging, gunslinging Libertarian-leaning mob defending freeloading Arizona rancher Cliven Bundy, it was YOUR Patron Saint, Ronald Reagan who should be incurring your wrath. Not President Obama. Note: They are using this open/closed case of a Nevada rancher who grazes on public lands but won't pay his fees, as a cause célèbre to create another Waco and ignite the next American Revolution so they can "take their country back."