Interesting story on NPR's Radio Lab this morning on how only we humans see nature in this colour spectrum. The bird sees something completely different. Click "Read more" - which do you like?

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My presentation to the Bellingham City Council on the difference between a Dry Bulk Commodity Terminal—which Gateway Pacific Terminal purports to be—and a Coal Port, which is what GPT really is. Judging by their conversation—observable during the cutaway—Mayor Kelli Linville and the city attorney appear to have had something else on their minds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTf96Icu34

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The Rapture did not live up to my expectations. In fact, I was turned away upon arrival for arguing that my dog should also be admitted.

"For Christ's sake!" I howled. "What friggin' kind of heaven don't allow no dogs?"

The woman at the reception counter wore a heavily starched white uniform and looked a lot like Nurse Ratched from One Flew...