Peeper’s diagnosis meant that, over her lifetime, she would essentially develop a second skeleton. Within a few years, she would begin to grow new bones that would stretch across her body, some fusing to her original skeleton. Bone by bone, the disease would lock her into stillness.
— A really creepy article in The Atlantic about a really creepy disease. 

The brilliant Reggie Watts, frequent PopTech performer, channelling Rick Astley. Sort of. 

thegreenurbanist:

davewellbeloved:

Now this is a good idea. Love one of these near my house

(via London Cycling Campaign)

Would love one of these for my office. 

As we say in Maine, that’s wicked smaht.

It’s getting kind of crowded on Mount Everest. 

climateadaptation:

kqedscience:

Astronauts Snag Dramatic Photographs of Alaska’s Erupting Volcano

Astronauts living on board the International Space Station managed to get these dramatic pictures of the Pavlof Volcano as it erupted over the weekend. The volcano began acting up last Monday, the 13th, its first eruption since 2007.”

See more images at The Atlantic.

Definitely click through!

Fast Company has a spread on a cool “zero-energy” house. 

I can tell you, at this time in my life, I had 7,747 kids that I was responsible for, and I could only account for my two children.
— C.J. Huff, the superintendent of Joplin, Mo. schools, from his striking PopTech talk about resilience in the wake of a killer tornado.