"Get out of my closet!"

The New York Times has a charming short piece about Michelle Obama, and I grinned through most of it. She discusses her daughters, her mother, and, of course, her husband.

I've heard a lot of women say their husbands never notice what clothes they have. Michelle Obama has the opposite problem:

"He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.'"

She teasingly imitated him: "You didn't need any more shoes. The shoes you had on yesterday were fine. Why can’t you just wear that for the rest of the presidency?"

*snicker*

"Get out of my closet!"

The New York Times has a charming short piece about Michelle Obama, and I grinned through most of it. She discusses her daughters, her mother, and, of course, her husband.

I've heard a lot of women say their husbands never notice what clothes they have. Michelle Obama has the opposite problem:

"He's always asking: 'Is that new? I haven't seen that before.' It's like, Why don't you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.'"

She teasingly imitated him: "You didn't need any more shoes. The shoes you had on yesterday were fine. Why can’t you just wear that for the rest of the presidency?"

*snicker*

Cows have a disturbing tendency to point north

Actually, cows aren't the only ruminants to position themselves on the earth's north-south magnetic axis. Deer do it, too.

These scientists wanted to find out if cows could actually *sense* the magnetic fields, or if they oriented based on other environmental cues. So they went and observed cows grazing near high-tension wires, and discovered that they changed orientation.

It is not true that the cows were first fed refrigerator magnets.

Via Ars Technica.

Cows have a disturbing tendency to point north

Actually, cows aren't the only ruminants to position themselves on the earth's north-south magnetic axis. Deer do it, too.

These scientists wanted to find out if cows could actually *sense* the magnetic fields, or if they oriented based on other environmental cues. So they went and observed cows grazing near high-tension wires, and discovered that they changed orientation.

It is not true that the cows were first fed refrigerator magnets.

Via Ars Technica.

There's something rather...scary...

...about an artist whose principal medium is "My Little Pony." Mari Kasurinen takes the "My Little Pony" dolls and...does stuff to them. The first of the series, "My Little Alien" is just freakishly brilliant.

There's something rather...scary...

...about an artist whose principal medium is "My Little Pony." Mari Kasurinen takes the "My Little Pony" dolls and...does stuff to them. The first of the series, "My Little Alien" is just freakishly brilliant.

Saving the baby in a flood

A mother, clinging to a tree in flooded waters, is thrown a rope so that she can swim to shore, pulling herself and her baby to safety. But this mother...was an orangutan. Very, very cool. Pictures at the link.

Via Fark.

Saving the baby in a flood

A mother, clinging to a tree in flooded waters, is thrown a rope so that she can swim to shore, pulling herself and her baby to safety. But this mother...was an orangutan. Very, very cool. Pictures at the link.

Via Fark.