Mayor Bloomberg came by to launch the new citywide Facebook page, Foursquare badge, Twitter feed, and Tumblr blog!
Cool trick: Their blog changes style based on the NYC’s weather and time-of-day!
Dean Huttenlocher also brought some exciting updates on the upcoming NYC Cornell/Technion campus.
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A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice on Monday, Feb. 6.
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A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice on Monday, Feb. 6.
[Credit : Luigi Costantini / AP]
Name Ben Popken Writes
Location Brooklyn, NYBen Popken is a blogger, freelance journalist, public speaker, and improv actor. Starting in 2006, Ben built up Consumerist.com from its infancy to national and international renown by taking a wry look at our consumer-driven lifestyle. He’s a natural at using social media to enhance his reporting, especially with investigations and stories on consumer activism. Ben also enjoys writing comedy sketches and updating his comedy blog, Ben Popken Is Just Kidding.
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Chalcopsitta rubifrons (now Chalcopsitta sintillata rubifrons) - Yellowish-Streaked Lory
This subspecies of the yellowish-streaked lory is native to Indonesia and southern Papua New Guinea, mostly around the Aru Islands. They’re sometimes called “Glossy Lories” in the pet trade, though that generally refers to Chalopsitta sintillata sintaillata. As Chalopsitta sintillata rubifrons is considered Threatened or Endangered (depending upon the watch agency, since they’re not well-tracked), you may want to ensure that any future pet is a “true” Glossy Lory, and not a Yellowish-Streaked Lory.
Not that I’m crazy about them as pets to begin with…these dudes require a LOT of specialized care. They only like (and can only process - not just finickiness like some birds) nectar and fruit, and have poo that gets everywhere when you don’t train them.
But hey, they’re pretty!
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. George Robert Gray, 1858.
Sperm Whale/Blue Whale. From ‘Realistic Pictures from Natural History’, by Johann Bechstein.
Cool whales!“Der kleine Kaschelot” is “The little Cachalot” - Cachalot being derived from an archaic French term meaning “tooth”. The term “little Cachalot” generally referred to a smaller specimen of Physeter macrocephalus, which was thought to be a different species. In fact, the females of the species are almost 50% smaller than males at maturity, so if you didn’t compare all the structures side-by-side, it would be easy to mistake.
However! In this case, the term “little Cachalot” is used in reference to the pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps.
“Der Nordkaper” is the North-caper. This term has been most commonly used in reference to the Northern Atlantic right whale, Eubalaena glacialis. But as the right whale has no dorsal fin, I’m inclined to believe the scientific name given, Balaena musculus - the Blue whale. Note the exposed genitalia (comparatively small in terms of % body length, especially alongside other cetaceans) and that the baleen plates have already been removed.
Christodoulos Panayiotou, “Shredded money”, 2008
The dune-like installation (5 meter hight and 7 meters diameter) consists of shredded bank notes. Following an agreement with the Central Bank of Cyprus, shredded Cypriot pounds were collected in January 2008 when the country entered the Eurozone. The work which represents the whole wealth of the Island at this transitional moment comments on the charged historical moment and the specific symbolic value of the cypriot currency.
