Reblogged from ellenology
My Life in Widescreen
A tour through the depths of the internet....
Ellen DeGeneres reflects on coming-out episode, 15 years later.
We’ve been with you all the way on this journey and it’s so special seeing you go through all the milestones knowing what you’ve been through.. For me, it’s an absolute honor to stand behind you and say that I’m your fan! And I’m so proud of that!
(Source: abcnews.go.com)
Weightlessness in Nature by Cornelia Konrads
Cornelia’s outdoor installations seem to give Mother Nature the finger with their brazen defiance of gravity. Suspended in time, her works often seem to be in caught in the middle of construction themselves, an act we were never supposed to witness.
sugaratoms: Newly Discovered Orchid
ON A REMOTE ISLAND in Papua New Guinea, scientists have uncovered the world’s only known orchid to produce flowers exclusively at night that die by the next morning.
Of more than 25,000 species in the orchid, only a handful flower in the evening. The new orchid, dubbed Bulbophyllum nocturnum, is the first known one whose flowers shrivel and fall off before dawn breaks.
Dendrobium chrysopterum - discovered bybotanist Andre Schuiteman in 1990 in PNG and described by him and Ed de Vogel. Found only in the forests of Eastern New Guinea.
Photo Credit: Andre Schuiteman
(via dendroica)
