This incredible walkway through the treetops is the Rhizotron, and it's Kew Gardens, Queens. Seriously! It's five minutes from me and I never even knew about it. More shots after the jump. Update: How could this be five minutes from me without my knowing it? Coz it's in Kew Gardens, London. To be fair, Forest Park in Kew Gardens, NY, is fairly huge, and should totally have one of these. And ponies.
Tornadoes devastated Kansas for the second day in a row yesterday. Here is some video of the event. Now be grateful you live somewhere nice and sunny with access to a beach. That is, if you do live in a such place. I do. But I'm locked in my apartment!
You see, they're not all bad. Once we all learn to be friends with our aquatic cousins we can harvest their colossal strength for the greater good of humanity.
Humanity's age-old quest to subdue nature is chronicled nowhere so epically as in cheesy Hollywood movies. And today Entertainment Weekly went ahead and chronicled that. A selection of classic screenshots follows.
From an AP article that made a a fleeting but glorious appearance on the NYT front page yesterday (Man Wrestles, Subdues, Deer at Md. Home) about how Martin "Pete" Castle wrestled and subdued a deer that ran through the front window of his home: "'My couch is ruined,' says Castle's wife, Robin. She had to clean blood off her computer, printer and coffee table."
The New York Times will make all its employees feel better by installing $110,000 worth of trees in the lobby. Seriously! They announced today that they're building an "open-air birch and moss garden" on the ground floor of their fancy new building. An open-air birch and moss garden. So maybe this season's $15 million in staff cuts ("certainly not the largest that we've had," says the Times) were just to pay for the 50-foot trees and several tons of moss (moss!!) that they're shipping in from Jersey this weekend. Some intrepid citizen journalists should go document the sure-to-be-astounding installation (cranes hoisting trees over a 70-foot glass wall in the middle of midtown!). Maybe all the people laid off from their printing plants should go into the tree nursery business? Or maybe they should talk to the Sulzbergers about building them the world's largest wooden aero-plane!
The 'Times' Can't See the Forest for the Trees [NYM]
