A yellow jacket nest engulfs the inside of a 1955 Chevrolet sitting on the property of Harry Coker, in this July 13, 2006, file photo, in Tallassee, Ala. To the bafflement of insect experts, gigantic yellow jacket nests have started turning up in old barns, unoccupied house, cars and underground cavities across the southern two-thirds of Alabama. Specialists say it could be the result of a mild winter and drought conditions, or multiple queens forcing worker yellow jackets to enlarge their quarters so the queens will be in separate areas. But experts haven’t determined exactly what’s behind the surprisingly large nests. - FenceHopping
why growing local is inevitable - Jeff Rubin speaking at The Business of Climate Change Conference 2009

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Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home after release from POW camp, 29 May 1945 (via the Internet Archive and Letters of Note)
Visualizing empires decline by Pedro M Cruz - the dissolution of maritime empires from 1800 to 2009. (watch it full screen, to read the text.)
photo-journalism in The Great Patriotic War by Dmitri Baltermants (via Блядь да Матушка Россия!!!)
Every vote over the minimum necessary to secure passage represents compromises that the Democrats as a group would prefer not to make … the Democrats wrote the strongest bill they could that would get enough votes to pass. That’s good strategy.” — Rafe Colburn