This is what your supermarket would look like if all the bees died off

Reblogged from Grist:

From bee-killing companies pretending to love bees to researchers frantically trying to create a disease-resistant superbee, it’s been kind of a rough week for bees, who have already been having a rough couple of years due to dying off left and right. But why should you care? It’s not like bees are delivering your mail or making you dinner or sewing your clothes, Cinderella-style.

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The Weekly Catnip

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This is a 360 degree, night panorama of the Simonopetra monastery. The monastery was founded during the 13th century. It is built on top of a single massive rock and many describe it as the boldest construction among all monasteries of Athos Mount. The night sky above Athos Mount is truly exceptional essentially free of any source of light pollution.

Camera Model Canon EOS 550D, Shooting Date/Time 1/1/2013 19:09 – 19:27 (29 shots panorama)., Author Chris Kotsiopoulos, Tv( Shutter Speed ) 20, Av( Aperture Value ) 3.2, ISO Speed 1600, Lens Canon EF15mm f/2.8 Fisheye, Focal Length 15.0 mm

 

The TEA Party & GOP On Science And Religion

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Silly Saturday

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Someone told me that isn’t a T-Rex and I forget what it is. I think a T-Rex would have just as much trouble though.

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I did not know this. According to some poll though…I wouldn’t doubt about the cuss word.

Oh, I live in Ohio.

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Big Pic: Hubble Space Telescope Captures The Ring

Nebula In Astonishing Detail

What does all that mean? If you’re an astronomer it means you have a better understanding of the Ring Nebula. That in turn provides insight into the way our own sun’s nebula will form in another six billion years or so when it runs out of fuel, sheds its outer gasses, and collapses in on itself (it won’t look like this because our sun isn’t as big, but nonetheless there will be similarities). For the rest of us, it means look at that amazing image of the Ring Nebula!

STORY HERE

Dubya Thanks The TEA Party

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There are one or two polls that show Bush the Lesser gaining a few ticks in popularity.

So I thought that I’d commemorate the news with some of his past accomplishments in pictures. There’s only a few and I did get a little off track but please bear with me.

There is just so much material!!!!

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Didn’t hear the outrage then. But Congress didn’t have a mandate from the first day that President Obama was sworn in to fight him on everything that he proposed or was for.

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This was posted on my fb page by one of my right wing nut relatives. My reply was that I wasn’t aware that anyone had tried to blame him. Their reply was, “You just watch, Somebody will try”. Bush should be so lucky.

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I don’t know who did this picture. Just think it’s cool.

Flooding Across Central Europe This Past Week

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While I haven’t watched much tv in the past month, my wife has. She says that there has been almost no coverage on non-cable news this week.

I’ve read about it online, but I had no idea that it was so wide spread.

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Heavy rainfall over Europe during the the past week has swollen many rivers past their flood stage, wreaking havoc unseen in decades across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic. At least 18 people across the region have been killed, and tens of thousands have been evacuated. In Germany, the crest of the Elbe River is now approaching the North Sea, as the swollen Danube River is surging toward the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Collected here are images from the past several days of those affected by these historic floods, even as meteorologists predict more rain over the coming weekend.

Here are a few pictures. There is a total of 36 at the link. It’s very sobering and a few are more heart wrenching than others.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/06/flooding-across-central-europe/100530/

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I hope that the photographer was able to rescue this poor thing. We have a female cat named Ebony that looks like this cat. When I saw this and saw the terror in it’s eyes I instantly teared up. The rest of the day hasn’t been the same.

A cat tries to escape floodwater from the river Vltava in Kly, near Melnik, Czech Republic, on June 4, 2013. (Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A young boy looks out from the back of an army truck that is evacuating people from the flooded village of Devin, in Bratislava, Slovakia, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Radovan Stoklasa) #

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It seems that no matter where a disaster happens, the Red Cross is there. Bless ‘em.

A Red Cross member talks to residents from his boat in the flooded center of Passau, Germany, on June 3, 2013. Raging waters from three rivers have flooded large parts of the southeast German city following days of heavy rainfall in central Europe. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) #

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The door of a flooded house in the village of Lounky, Czech Republic, on June 6, 2013. Tens of thousands of Germans, Hungarians and Czechs were evacuated from their homes on Wednesday as soldiers raced to pile up sandbags to hold back rising waters in the region’s worst floods in a decade. (Reuters/David W Cerny) #

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A girl from the village of Mlekojedy stands with her dog in front of the flooded road to her home, near the city of Litomerice, Czech Republic, on June 5, 2013. (Reuters/Petr Josek) #

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If you look close, the little boy and this woman have almost the same look in their eyes.

Petra Breitenfeller surveys her flood-damaged shop “Geko” in the center of the Bavarian city of Passau, on June 7, 2013. (Reuters/Michaela Rehle) #

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Seems like no matter what country…..

A German soldier takes a break on the top of a sandbag dam in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt Germany, on June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) #

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Realization…Or The Lack Of.

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The right/republicans/tea party, don’t seem to realize the irony of almost all of their positions on almost everything. It’s also remarkable how they seem to embrace and revel in their obvious ignorance, racism and lack of understanding and only caring about themselves. No matter how much it hurts the perception of them.

The only good thing about that is it makes them an easy target for comedy and criticism.

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Large forest fires are visible in a newly released image from NASA and NOAA, of the Earth at night. The bright regions in the western part of Australia that are largely uninhabited, and the light seen is almost entirely from forest fires.

“Away from the cities, much of the night light observed by the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite in these images comes from wildfires. In the bright areas of western Australia, there are no nearby cities or industrial sites but, scientists have confirmed, there were fires in the area when Suomi NPP made passes over the region. This has been confirmed by other data collected by the satellite.”

“Because different areas burned at different times when the satellite passed over, the cumulative result in the composite view gives the appearance of a massive blaze. These fires are temporary features, in contrast to cities which are always there.”

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