Flying lizard

Someone who goes by Biophilia_curiosus posted photos of a flying lizard from Indonesia. I haven’t yet seen Avatar, but I’ve read about flying Toruks. Here’s miniature real-life version.

The crazy part is that those lines you see running through the wings like veins are actually its ribs! Evolution did a number on these guys. They can expand and contract their chests at will to glide great distances. We were only able to catch females as they were laying their eggs. All we could do is watch as the males soared overhead.

FREE THE SENIORS: A state senator from Utah knows how to take $60 million out of the state’s $700 million deficit: Get rid of the senior year of high school. It’s just a wasted year anyway, right? So often these days I hear Jim Morrison and the Doors singing, “People are strange…”

The notion quickly gained some traction among supporters who agreed with the Republican’s assessment that many seniors frittered away their final year of high school, but faced vehement opposition from other quarters, including in his hometown of West Jordan.

DONALD TRUMP’S PEOPLE: New York Post readers are D. Trump’s people. They loved reading his comment about taking away Al Gore’s Nobel Prize because of cold weather in the U.S. NOAA doesn’t see it that way. It was a warm January, world-wide.

VIRTUAL TRAVEL: The Guardian’s Benji Lanyado is very excited about Google Russia’s virtual trip in the Trans-Siberian Railway:

Yesterday I browsed the Trans-Siberian Railway. Yup, browsed it. I loitered on the platform at Yaroslavsky station before accelerating into identikit Muscovite suburbs, then glided across the Volga, raced through the Lower Urals, sped across the Barguzin Mountains, before pulling up in Vladivostok a few minutes later.

My humble steed, of course, was the wonderful new map-cum-video guide unveiled by Google Russia and Russian railways. The project sews together a series of videos shot from the window of a Trans-Siberian carriage as it spans the 5,752-mile length of the world’s most famous long-distance railway.

Another post here. Amazing stuff.