Author Archives: Stan Flouride

Have a tissue handy. Maybe two. Ernst Berlin wanted to make his wife’s first birthday with their new baby really special; so he turned to Reddit Gets Drawn, where artists of a variety of styles will interpret your photographs for you. He commissioned … Continue reading →

Florence Nightingale knew how to work the press. The Times first painted her as an iconic female healer—the “lady with the lamp”—for her work in the Crimean War in the 1850s. Nightingale used her nursing image to drive public health legislation and improve … Continue reading →

(If Your Kid’s a Picky Eater, You’ll Relate) If you had a baby or toddler two years ago, you probably saw the book Go the F*** to Sleep, accompanied a little while later by  Samuel L. Jackson’s fantastic reading of it, which he … Continue reading →

BORDEAUX (AFP).- Her clothes are made from fur, hemp and nettle and for decoration she sports ivory and bone beads. She has dark hair worn in dreadlocks, tattoos and a penetrating stare. Dubbed  “the woman from the Pataud shelter”, little … Continue reading →

Mucana Holtinii Marcgravia evenia Tamara Bonnemaison (who wrote this text) was inspired to learn more about Mucuna holtonii after reading a National Geographic article about plants that “speak” to bats. This beautifully-written article, “Call of the Bloom“, follows the work of Dr. Ralph Simon … Continue reading →

Welcome to C67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko Image Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVAExplanation: The Rosetta Mission lander is safely on a comet. One of Philae’s feet appears at the bottom left of this spectacular image of the surface of C67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Still a happy lander, Philae bounced twice before settling and returning images … Continue reading →

The annual Leonid meteor shower will reach its peak this week. But will you be able to see it? You might need to get away from city lights. About 80 percent of people in the United States live in urban areas. In these … Continue reading →