"Out of the bosom of the air, / Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken"

It is the sort of day where cicadas are already buzzing when I leave for work. We're looking at near-record high temperatures all week, too hot for me to bike with insoucience. To take my mind off this, a few links:

The balloon sculptures of Masayoshi Matsumoto. (via)

How many melodies are there? (via)

Why everything you know about wolf packs is wrong: "[S]tudies of wild wolves have found that wolves live in families: two parents along with their younger cubs ... The 'alphas' are simply what we would call in any other social group 'parents.'"

---L.

Subject quote from "Snow-flakes," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.