alien and beautiful-safe and deep

A friend for the little jelly?
Un ami pour la petite meduse?

Also, national geographic.

orange sea glass is so terribly rare

I'm not going to translate this.
A girl in my french class was telling us about how her uncle works at a research lab in antartica. He told her that he could get her a job (which are impossible to get) working in the kitchen and making the same in a year as a year or more of college tuition. Not to mention the fact that SHE WOULD BE LIVING IN MOTHERFUCKING ANTARTICA! She nixed the idea and is gonna go to school in california instead. Crazy.
Well, it was this little jelly that got me thinking about college and antartica and all that jazz. He was found in the icy antartic waters. I love jellyfish.
I actualy just got back from college visits in NYC. The tour guide at The New School was a really rad kid, a senior at Eugene Lang. He had spent a semester of sophmore year in the "Semester at Sea" program-where you literaly spend a semester on a boat and go all around the world, 13 countries in all. Hot damn. 68 or 108 days. At sea. Fuck yes. Sign me up.
The whole college thing is scary as hell. Maybe I'll just make cupcakes for the rest of my life. Or, better yet, I'll just turn into an antartic jellyfish and drift away.

national geographic

I love the sea.

Yes, please.

Oui, si vous plait.

^_^

national geographic

cancerous tasmanian devil proof fence

"Australian scientists say they want to build a fence on Tasmania to prevent the spread of a cancer that threatens the Tasmanian Devil with extinction. "


What is it about Australians and fences?
Qu'est que c'est des Austrailians et les clotures?

Story from BBC.

about (what is it about)
fence=la cloture

from MISI-ZIIBI, ojibwe for great river

This is a map of the flooding of the mississippi over a number of decades. I think it's the most beautiful thing that I've ever seen.
Ca c'est un carte de la inondation de la mississippi avec les temps. Je pense qu'il est le plus belle truc que j'ai jamais vue.

from my new favourite blog, strangemaps.

gotta love a lysosome

Don't you just love biology? Like cells and shit? The Golgi apparatus, rough endoplasmic reticulumes? Just wonderful. For AP we had to decide on a subject for our concentrations. I was torn for a while between doing this thing with folk embroidery of just the dots of light that define a city when you're flying overhead at night or something about cells. I decided on cells. I think the peices are going to be squares, all twelve of them, and all really abstract. I like the idea of having an incredible vagueness combined with technical defenition. Anyways. I'm lazy and tired so I'm not translating or anything... I haven't posted in a while because my computer crapped out on me. I'm gonna start again but it's kinda tough only having my mother's work computer. Gosh darn it.

Test Tube Babies

(from akikomatic.com)