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Craziest Gadgets

Your gadgets can be the “best in show” with a Kikkerland USB Poodle Hub . This USB 2.0 hub features four paws and four ports. It pawports to be (see what I did there?)
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Donate a Goat This Holiday Season| IRC Goat Gifts

Goats and other livestock are often a family’s most valuable investments; when animals perish in disasters, it’s devastating to a household. In the aftermath of the 2010 floods that inundated Pakistan’s Sindh province, we delivered more than 8,000 goats to survivors — particularly female-headed households — to help them start a new herd that will feed their families and lift their economic fortunes.

yes and yes

I had always been curious about the Baltic countries and visiting them had been at the back of my mind since moving to Azerbaijan in 2007. http://www.yesandyes.org/
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Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology (AEM) publishes papers that make significant contributions to (a) applied microbiology, including biotechnology, protein engineering, bioremediation, and food microbiology, (b) microbial ecology, including environmental, organismic, and genomic microbiology, and (c) interdisciplinary microbiology, including invertebrate microbiology, plant microbiology, aquatic microbiology, and geomicrobiology.
http://www.microbelibrary.org/ Gallery (formerly the Atlas Collection) is a collection of images, videos, and animations that can be used to enhance lecture or lab presentations. Individual items include brief legends that describe the items and how they were obtained. A collection of items around a central theme (e.g., Gram stain and MacConkey agar) includes a title for the collection and a title and short description for each item (e.g., figure title and legend).

MicrobeLibrary: premier visual resources and protocols used in teaching microbiological and biological sciences

This treatise on optical microscopy is divided into several sections that are available through the links displayed immediately to the left (in the darker navigational boxes) and below. In order to print the entire microscopy primer as a paper document, you must download each link independently, send the file to your printer, and put the results together. In the Bibliography, we have included links to other works on optical microscopy and our section on Web Resources contains links to other microscopy sites on the Internet. This material is targeted for educational purposes only, and is not available to be posted on remote websites (either commercial or educational) or distributed in any electronic format. Frequently Asked Questions - Mortimer Abramowitz, senior microscopist at Olympus America Inc., answers the 50 most commonly asked questions about microscopy and photomicrography.

Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Introduction to Microscopy

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Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations.

Khan Academy

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The Slanted Little House | Chickens in the Road

An ode to what the old farmhouse has meant to us on the day we begin construction on our new home on our own farm about three miles away. It was a cold wintry day when I brought my children to live in rural West Virginia. The farmhouse was one hundred years old, there was already snow on the ground, and the heat was sparse—as was the insulation. The floors weren’t even, either. My then-twelve-year-old son walked in the door and said, “You’ve brought us to this slanted little house to die.” Products of suburbia, my three children wondered why there was no cable TV or Target, not to mention central heat.

Futility Closet

“ The Reverse of a Framed Painting was not intended to be hung on the wall, but to be placed against it,” writes Olaf Koerster. “The viewer would be deceived into trying to turn the picture around, only to see the reverse of an unframed painting: Gijsbrechts had created the paradoxical painting with two backs.” http://www.futilitycloset.com/
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A kiss - so simple yet so emotional.

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mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix

On Fridays, I post a series of unrelated questions meant to spark conversation in the comments. Answer one, answer all, respond to someone else’s reply, whatever you want. On to this week’s topics of discussion…