Nature
Miss Cactus of 1953
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 26, 2025 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Nature, 1950s
Freakish Accidents No. 2
Posted By: Paul - Sun Mar 09, 2025 -
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Category: Nature, Surgery, 1950s
Irv Teibel’s Environments
Irv Teibel pioneered recording environmental sounds (thunder storms, waterfalls, and the like). His "Environments" albums sold millions of copies.The interview below, posted on YouTube by his daughter, took place sometime in the early 1980s. In it he describes how he recorded the thunderstorm album by sticking a microphone out his bathroom window.
More info: wikipedia
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 18, 2024 -
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Category: Nature, Weather, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings
The Swamp in June
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 13, 2024 -
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Category: Boredom, Nature, Vinyl Albums and Other Media Recordings, 1960s
Nature’s Butts
They've been coming out with versions of this calendar for a couple of years, but I just heard about it now.The 2025 calendar is now available.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Sep 04, 2024 -
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Category: Nature, Natural Wonders, Photography and Photographers
Killer Tree
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 03, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Nature, Synchronicity and Coincidence, 1960s
The Outdoors Girl of Canada
The earliest reference I find is the one below, from 1955. The latest is from 1989. A respectable 40-year run. But too few pictures of the winners!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 02, 2024 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Nature, Day Camps, Away Camps, Outdoor Activities and Recreational Retreats, 1950s, 1980s, North America
Occupational Hazards of Being a Florist
Posted By: Paul - Sun Feb 25, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Jobs and Occupations, Nature, 1960s
“Washable” Roses
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 05, 2023 -
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Category: Domestic, Hygiene, Nature, Camouflage, Counterintelligence, Diversions, Chaff and Fakeouts, Advertising, 1960s
Female mate avoidance behaviors in the European common frog
We posted recently about "misdirected amplexus," which is the phenomenon of male frogs attempting to mate with inappropriate objects (different species, fish, inanimate objects, etc.).Turns out that the weird frog sex behaviors don't end there. Male frogs, in their excitement, will occasionally form "mating balls" — "several male frogs cling to a single female – often killing her in the process."
Some German researchers have now found that female frogs, in turn, have developed defense strategies to protect themselves from over-excited males. They rotate to try to escape the male's grasp; they emit "release calls"; and if those strategies fail to work, they play dead:
More info: "Drop dead! Female mate avoidance in an explosively breeding frog" – technologynetworks.com
(Thanks to Gerald Sacks)
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 13, 2023 -
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Category: Animals, Nature, Science, Sex
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