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Feb 7, 2013

wtfevolution:

A parasitic louse that crawls into your mouth, vampirizes your tongue, then clamps itself onto the withered stub so it can ride around inside you and drink your mucus for the rest of your mutual lives? Why, yes. It’s called symbiosis and it’s beautiful.
What? Relax. It’s going to be fine. This isn’t going to hurt. You won’t even miss your tongue—once the louse is latched onto the muscle, you can simply use its body as a tongue instead. These are exactly the kind of details that evolution has worked out for you, because evolution loves you and it wants you to be all right.

A parasitic louse that crawls into your mouth, vampirizes your tongue, then clamps itself onto the withered stub so it can ride around inside you and drink your mucus for the rest of your mutual lives? Why, yes. It’s called symbiosis and it’s beautiful.

What? Relax. It’s going to be fine. This isn’t going to hurt. You won’t even miss your tongue—once the louse is latched onto the muscle, you can simply use its body as a tongue instead. These are exactly the kind of details that evolution has worked out for you, because evolution loves you and it wants you to be all right.

Mar 20, 2012

Get excited...: What’s next?

mohamed:

(Poster by Matt Jones on my office wall)

After 7.5 years at Al Jazeera, I’ve decided to move on to explore further opportunities. Having worked at the intersection of media, technology and entrepreneurship, I’m interested in exploiting the structural changes in the media industry…

Mar 11, 2012

Tumble again?

Wondering whether I should be tumbling again…

Dec 3, 2011

Gupta has gotten more attention than most searching for organ donors online, and he’s using his platform to promote how simple donating bone marrow has become. No longer is a painful needle to the hip the only method. Instead, the process is similar to giving blood. It usually takes two to four sessions of two to six hours each for a person to give bone marrow. Unlike donors of vital organs like kidneys, marrow donors can give again and again. “Rather than just one transplant they could enable 10 or 20,” said Montgomery.

Photojojo Founder Amit Gupta Uses Social Media to Find a Bone-Marrow Donor - The Daily Beast (via steph)

(via steph)

Nov 19, 2011

Spectral Alphabet: Fukushima

spectralalphabet:

Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Backyard, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, 2011.

Paulo & Joe, Iwaki, 2011.

Earlier this month, I rode with the Safecast crew out of Tokyo and onto Fukushima Prefecture. It was raining and in the back of the van we each had Geiger counters for…