First of all: thank you to everyone for all the birthday wishes and kind messages. I am so lucky to have so many great people in my life, and every time my little inbox light would flash with another one...well...you can't really blame me for getting all verklempt, you know? You guys rule. But in a greater sense, I want to say thank you to all of ( Read more... )

Today, we got engaged in the corner of the lorikeet enclosure of the Columbus Zoo.
I cried all. damn. day.

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150 years ago today, Darwin and Wallace's paper on natural selection was presented to the Linneaen Society of London with the support of Hooker and Lyell. In time, the premise of this paper has torn communities apart and united biologists and laypersons alike.
It also gave us the premise for an equally crucial piece of modern literature.

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Happy π Day!

HAPPY MOLE DAY EVERYONE!