THIS AND THAT
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“Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policemen, always alert, always tense, but see policemen don’t have to be beautiful at the same...”
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This walked through my house today. On his way, he shook himself off, getting mud all over the walls in the hallway, rubbed against a chair and a...
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Freshly Minted Baby Cheetahs at the National Zoo
Ready … set … cuteness! Two 1-month-old cheetah cubs were transported to the Zoo last week from...
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University of Aberdeen New Library, Aberdeen, Scotland. photo © Schmidt hammer architects k/s 2012
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Capybaras are very strong and they can be stubborn. In this photo, my friend Ashutosh Moghe (I’m putting his full name here to embarrass him), finds...
Frog playing drums - the cutest little ashtray!
Value life, be fire safe. - Mural at Block 118, Clementi Street 13.
A man and his dog.
Hello Kitty on wheels
The smallest little shrimp we found in a shell in our soup on Taketomi island, Okinawa.
For some reason I was rather tickled by this image of a tortoise supporting a lampost.
That’s what the WHO recommends, at least, and I’ll take their word for it; it doesn’t get much cheaper than free. After just six hours, the UV rays from the sun have destroyed all the microbes in your water, making it safe to drink.
Recent research shows two hacks, both equally easy and nearly as cheap, to improve water purification. Add a dash of salt, of the table salt variety, to cause sediment to clump and fall out of suspension. And use some lime juice, which contains chemical compounds called psoralens, to cut the UV wait time from 6 hours to 30 minutes.
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The cutest mascot ever is in Hikone, a city in Shiga Prefecture.
Pretty lanterns
