Tiny Snow Birds

Puffer fish chases laser light

30,000 Year Old Flowers

via Discover
"These regenerated plants, rising like wintry Phoenixes from the Russian ice, are still viable. They produce their own seeds and, after a 30,000-year hiatus, can continue their family line.

The plant owes its miraculous resurrection to a team of scientists led by David Gilichinsky, and an enterprising ground squirrel. Back in the Upper Pleistocene, the squirrel buried the plant’s fruit in the banks of the Kolyma River. They froze.

Over millennia, the squirrel’s burrow fossilised and was buried under increasing layers of ice. The plants within were kept at a nippy -7 degrees Celsius, surrounded by permanently frozen soil and the petrifying bones of mammoths and woolly rhinos. They never thawed. They weren’t disturbed. By the time they were found and defrosted by scientists, they had been buried to a depth of 38 metres, and frozen for around 31,800 years..."

The Everything Crib

5-in-1 Companion Crib and Desk from Fab.com.

Dakuwaqa's Garden - Underwater footage from Fiji & Tonga

Uploaded by bubblevision on Oct 4, 2011

"Underwater footage shot whilst scuba diving in the Fiji islands and Tonga. Featuring colorful coral reefs, huge schools of tropical fish, sharks, humpback whales, underwater caves, scuba divers and much more marine life from the south Pacific."

via Helen

Inside Walt's Apartment with Diane Disney Miller at Disneyland Park

YouTube Uploaded by DisneyParks on Feb 6, 2012

"It's a source of history and lore here at Disneyland park - a place many people have heard about but few have seen. But your chance is here to take a peek inside Walt Disney's famous apartment - above the Fire Dept. on Main Street, U.S.A. - with his daughter, Diane Disney Miller! Here's a special sneak peek of the interview. See the whole thing in the "Lady and the Tramp" Diamond Edition - now available on Blu-ray and DVD! Read more at the Disney Parks Blog: http://bit.ly/A0qFDs"

Seahorse

Disneyland Canon 1957

BrushBot

Uploaded by makemagazine on Feb 3, 2012 "Learn to build the BrushBot Kit from the Maker Shed. http://www.makershed.com/Build_your_own_scuttling_BrushBot_p/msbb.htm http://makeprojects.com/Project/Building-BrushBot-Kits/77/1"

Math Improv: Fruit by the Foot