See my shy, new friend! Did you know the United States has no native mantids—the Chinese mantis was first recorded in the USA in 1896 and the European mantis in 1900.
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Lynn Gardner
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Disaster bisexual cat lady masquerading as a fully functional adult. Staying sane through audiobooks.
Pine + Star Sparkling Strawberry Lemonade is the truest tasting THC-enhanced beverage I've found in New England. If I hadn't felt the effects, I'd think it was regular ol' soda.
Making soup—picked-over turkey breast in a pot on the stove with carrots, onions, celery, parsnip, turnip, herbs, and plenty of water.
Lilja, one of five Trolls who act as Guardians of the Seeds, in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The youngest of the trolls, she loves the colors and the scents of the flowers and when bees and butterflies fly among branches.
It's too early in the morning to discuss orbital mechanics, they agreed.
Annalee Newitz 🍜The U.S. government has long regarded LGBT people not just as morally abhorrent, but as actual enemies of the state. In 1950, the Senate issued a report on "homosexuals and other sex perverts in government." In 1953, President Eisenhower issued an executive order declaring "sexual perversion" (AKA homosexuality) a "national security risk." It's important to remember that anti-trans ideology grows out of this idea that LGBT people are un-American. #trans #history #lgbtq https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html
“These People Are Frightened to Death”
Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare Summer 2016, Vol. 48, No. 2 By Judith Adkins Enlarge On December 15, 1950, the Hoey committee released this report, concluding that homosexuals were "unsuitable for employment in the Federal Government" and constituted "security risks in positions of public trust." (Records of the U.S. Senate, RG 46) The Red Scare, the congressional witch-hunt against Communists during the early years of the Cold War, is a well-known chapter of American history.
NASA10 years ago today the Cassini spacecraft peered past Saturn's rings and captured this image of a distant bluish planet and its moon. That's Earth, seen from over 900 million miles away! #SmileYoureOnCassiniCamera
Why was this photo taken? Read: https://go.nasa.gov/44NA2o7
#NASAhistory
Peter GleickJust a reminder that that magic "cloud" you're saving all your data and files to is just someone else's computer.