Gleanings of the Week Ending April 6, 2013

The items below were ‘the cream’ of the articles I read this past week. Click on the light green text to look at the article.

The “50+ Market”: A Few Fab Facts

Are they (cicadas) coming to town? - There’s a brood of the 17 year cicadas coming to my area of Maryland this year!

Trends in Iceland - recession = good?

20+ Dramatic Shots of Lenticular Clouds - unusual clouds

Photos of Famous Authors as Teenagers - How many books of these authors have you read…and how many of these people aged well?

Top 25 Wild Bird Photographs of the Week #40 - My favorite of this batch are the flamingos in flight

Hollow chocolate Easter eggs - It’s too late for Easter this year but this is such a great idea, I’m including in my gleanings list….and looking around for another occasion to try it.

New Gullies Found in a Young(ish) Crater on Mars - Somehow knowing that Mars is not as static as we once thought makes it seem more like Earth too

Glowing Millipedes Accidentally Found on Alcatraz - The place….the organism….found when they were really looking for rats!

Teasing Out New Teeth - And how long will the research and refinement take before it begins to transform dentistry. No more implants or false teeth.

Seahorses

There is a small aquarium room as the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson. It was not open when we first entered the museum; it was on out ‘must see’ list since it had been added to the museum since out last visit. The seahorse tank drew my attention. There were two different kinds and they clung to the water grasses with their tail or gracefully drifted to a neighboring plant. They seemed alert but never hurried or nervous.

When I got home, there was a picture on The Scientist website showing how the seahorse’s bony plates are configured to make it hard yet flexible. That serendipity prolonged my ‘Zen of the seahorse’ thoughts!