The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Manufacturing #17 : Deda Chicken Processing Plant, Dehui City, Jilin Province, China (2005) by Edward Burtynsky.

The name Dubai derives from Al Daba, a locust which consumed everything in its path, said Johann Hari back in April.

I have been searching for some time for this picture : Monster Soup by William Heath (1795 - 1840) Heath, satirizing the appalling productio...

We are embedded in the mental world of others just as we are embedded in the physical world. What we are currently doing and thinking is mo...

Cubozoa, or box jellyfish , such as these two Copula sivickisi , are the only jellyfish that copulate. They are also unique in having eight...

Rats who build the labyrinth from which they will escape is how Raymond Queneau described the practitioners of Oulipo, notes Ben Schott. O...

In his opening remarks for the first conference in Egypt on the work of Charles Darwin, Ismail Sergaldin, the director of the Bibliotheca Al...

The preface to Contours of climate justice ( pdf ) includes a note written in 1951 by Dag Hammarskjöld which, say the authors, show with p...

...where no previous capacity exists, evolving a brand new trait can be a slow and haphazard affair. If [as experiments with bacteria indica...

In the main event , 250 appointed residents with traditional kukri knives began their task of decapitating more than 10,000 buffalo in a dus...

Snail asymmetry has driven the evolution of a unique asymmetry in snakes [and], as Darwin would have predicted, the snakes also appear to be...

from WHO via BBC . Hat tip: MP .

According to the Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd, [Sam the Koala] was the subject of widespread comment at the G20 summit in London in ...

Kaprosuchus saharicus is one of five 100 million year old fossilized "monstrous and surprisingly diverse" relatives of the crocod...

Daniel White's Mandlebulb

Tim Dee and Simon Armitage choose ten . I like this by Basho: My eyes following until the bird was lost at sea found a small island

We don't yet have sight of "the coelacanth's mating ritual" that Andrew McNeillie hopes to see but we do have sight of a ...

For hundreds of thousands of years we have made stone tools: people sitting together under the trees, chipping and tapping and knapping thei...

You and I are mirages who perceive themselves, and the sole magical machinery behind the scenes is perception -- the triggering, by huge flo...

Chris Jordan's photographs of the plastic in the stomachs of baby albatrosses on Midway atoll are, he says , an attempt to communicate w...