There's A... Fly On A Bump On A Log In A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea!

There's a... fly on a bump on a log in a hole in the bottom of the sea!

A Bacterium on a Diatom on an Amphipod

I see a lot of science stuff, and it’s pretty hard to get me to say “wow” … Just kidding, I say it all the time!

Definitely said it when I saw this wonderful representation of the scale differences between the domains of life. In one picture! Just remember, there’s about a trillion of those little bacteria on and in you all the time, just that tiny.

“I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow.” — Neil Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012)

Image: The view from the Apollo 11 Command and Service Module shows the Earth rising above the Moon’s horizon on July 20th, 1969. NASA, via Boston.com.

H/T: Sarah Zhang

"What kind of parent names their kid 'River Song'?" Amy pondered.

Subway poster scratch-art.

Today on the National Weather Service’s website.

An explanatory note

Higgeldy, piggeldy

Catherine of Russia, was

Up to no good again,

Flown from her bed

To stables in search of

Equine-imious pleasure.

Delivered by men?

Neigh: thoroughbred.