New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone
Category: Science
My New Desktop Wallpaper
Zanclean Flood
While reading Thomas Holliday’s Otherlands, I wanted to know if there were any animations of the Zanclean Flood, and found this video on youtube.
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
Eclipse
Seeing totality with the 2017 eclipse was awesome. https://xkcd.com/2914/
Lightning
Continental Drift
This animation from the Open Culture site shows the development of modern continents starting with the Pangea super-continent.
Hummingbirds
An lone restoration of a vintage catalog of hummingbirds from Open Culture.
xkcd: Degree-Off
http://xkcd.com/1520/
Source: xkcd: Degree-Off
Google Flu Trends
Does it seem like a lot of people are complaining about being sick? What do you know: the flu is worse this year according to Google Flu Trends.