Royal Jelly

According to Wikipedia:

Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of the larvae. It is secreted from the hypopharyngeal glands in the heads of young workers and used (among other substances) to feed all of the larvae in the colony, including those destined to become workers. If a queen is needed, a larva is chosen and will receive only royal jelly — and in large quantities — as its food source for the first four days of its growth, and this rapid, early feeding triggers the development of queen morphology, including the fully developed ovaries needed to lay eggs.

William Hundley's ghosts

The ghosts are his friends jumping, wrapped up in blankets.

Manchester, England

Norwich, England

Lipstick as eyeshadow

Have fun in a boat, but...

Mystery on Fifth Avenue

This article from the NY Times is so cool. I would have killed to live in this apartment as a kid.

"They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ’20s-era co-op with Central Park views (once part of a triplex built for the philanthropist Marjorie Merriweather Post), gutted to its steel beams and refitted with luxurious flourishes like 16th-century Belgian mantelpieces and custom furniture made from exotic woods with unpronounceable names.

But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino."

analemma

This is what it looks like if you take a picture of the sun every day at the same time for a year.

Joy

Speaking of eggs...

I just read that each person in China eats 38 pounds of eggs per year.