the silfra canyon of the mid atlantic ridge in iceland’s thingvellir national park has on one side the north american plate and on the other side the eurasian plate. the two plates are moving apart, widening the size of the atlantic ocean by about an inch a year. the water’s clarity, it bears noting, is the result of melted glacier water from langjoekull, which is filtered through underground lava rocks. (photos x, xx)
Tim Carpenter, a staff biologist at the Seattle Aquarium, says that
“in three to four years, giant Pacific octopuses can reach 100 pounds.”
“They have incredible capacity to grow very, very quickly: they can put on the pounds much more quickly than most other animals in the natural world. So they need a lot of food. Whatever they can get their tentacles on.”
At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.
At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer.
At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.
At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.
At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook.
At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.
At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.
At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs.
Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51.
Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40.
Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40.
Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career to pursue acting at age 42.
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first movie role until he was 46.
Morgan Freeman landed his first movie role at age 52.
Kathryn Bigelow only reached international success when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57.
Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76.
Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78.
Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow.
LCF is proud to announce their first birth of the 2016 season-
ring-tailed lemur twins! Ring-tailed lemur matriarch Ansell gave birth
to two healthy babies on March 20th. These infants mark Ansell’s fourth
set of twins in a row! Generally ring-tailed lemurs give birth to one
offspring, but twins are possible when ample food is present, as it is
in managed populations.
Ansell and the infants, along with father Yuengling and five older siblings- Rogue, Allagash, Duffy, Goose, and Darwin- are living in one of LCF’s semi-free ranging forests, allowing them to live as naturally as possible.
The ring-tailed lemur is listed as ‘Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List
with a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future. LCF
works with multiple Species Survival Plans (SSPs) to manage its breeding
program and is the home of 51 lemurs, including 17 ring-tailed lemurs.
