Today is #ShowYourStripes day!
This year, St Michael's Tower atop Glastonbury Tor is encouraging everyone to use the Climate Stripes to start a conversation about climate change and the actions they are taking.
Thank you @nationaltrust!
Graphics: https://t.co/NCt3GNpeSN
What I love about this photo is that every one of these women has a Master's Degree, JD, or PHD. All professionals. All loyal wives. Great mothers to their kids/grandkids. And all are successful in their own right. If Barbara Bush or Rosalyn Carter were still alive, they would be the exception. We have made great progress. One day, a woman will be the President of our country. One day soon. #ObamaPresidentialCenter
The big black and yellow spider in your garden looks like she's here to shank you and steal your man, but she's harmless.
Argiope aurantia, the black and yellow garden spider, is one of the most recognizable spiders in North America and one of the most useful things that can show up in a yard. She builds a large orb web, sometimes a foot or more across, with a distinctive zigzag band of silk through the center.
She sits in the middle of it all day, eating grasshoppers, beetles, wasps, moths, and whatever else flies into range.
She's not venomous in any medically significant way. A bite, which she won't pursue, is comparable to a bee sting. She has no interest in you. She is interested in the insects eating your garden though.
The web looks dramatic because it is dramatic. It's an engineering structure she rebuilds or repairs every night. The zigzag, called a stabilimentum, may serve to make the web visible to birds so they don't fly through it and destroy it. She's thought of everything.
If she's built across a path you use, redirect the path for a few weeks. By October she'll be gone. The egg sac she leaves behind will hatch next spring and her daughters will set up in your garden again.
Michelle Obama to Barack Obama: You were doing the people's work. Rescuing our economy. Expanding healthcare. Ending a war. Ordering the Bin Laden raid. Saving the auto industry. Winning a peace prize. Keeping us safe from Ebola. Regulating the banks. Standing up for marriage equality. Listening to science. And comforting an entire nation. And you did it all with such grace, and class, and cool.
Interesting timelapse over Broward County showing the smoke plume fanning out, turning the sky a deep red as ash falls as far away as Fort Lauderdale. Temperatures under the thick smoke dropped around 5Β° in some neighborhoods. #FLwx
I am SO SICK of making the most money I ever made in my life and not having a certain amount to be able to roll over every 15th/30th like I can't even imagine how people who don't work etc feel this is just becoming so ridiculous.
There's madd wildfires raging in South Florida so we have an air quality alert. Now here comes @MakeItRainShane talmbout "oh this Southwest Wind coming in later should help alleviate the air quality..."
So: bad air quality OR the devil blowing hot wind on our already hot necks!?
Blech! Bring @vladduthiersCBS back to the desk! We really didn't ask for Elizabeth Hasselbeck, @CBSMornings
*looks for a different morning news program*
I noticed something:
People who have traveled a lot tend to judge less. Not because they became nicer, but because they've seen too many versions of what's "normal."
In one country, it's normal to eat with your hands.
In another, it's normal to stay quiet at the table.
In a third, it's normal to hug strangers.
When you've seen 30 different versions of "the right way," you stop believing yours is the only one.
Travel doesn't just teach geography.
It teaches tolerance.
HatΔ when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed.
I am reading books that bring me back to being human. Thank you
π¨ ππ₯πππππ‘π: Omar Artan, the Somali referee who was denied visa entry into the US, will be paid his full World Cup salary by FIFA.
β @BBCSport