Glowing South American Roaches
These insects look scary enough in daylight, then they glow in the dark!
This remarkable species of South American cockroach, Lucihormetica luckae, owes its fluorescence to bacteria. The spots on the dark brown area of its carapace are pits inhabited by microbes that glow under fluorescent light.
A recent analysis of these creatures’ bioluminescence demonstrates that they [...]
Lampshades Made from Recycled Corrugated Cardboard
Graypants’s lampshades are pretty enough in the daylight. But in the dark, they’re stunning as light peeks through the corrugations in the cardboard.
Link -via Dornob
Daylight Saving Time Explained
(YouTube link)
C.G.P. Grey explains how Daylight Saving Time works -and doesn’t. It seems like an awful lot of hassle twice a year for a tiny payoff. In the U.S, DST ends on November 6th. Link -via I Am Bored
The History of Daylight Saving Time in the US
Daylight Saving Time ends in most of the United States a 2AM on Sunday, November 1st (Hawaii and Arizona have been on standard time all summer). We remember which way to set our clocks by thinking “spring forward, fall back.” It makes you wonder how we ever got our clocks coordinated in the first place. [...]
