Ellen's new little puppy

different in a good way.

The Senate is normally a divisive place, full of shouting matches, endless filibusters, and the occasional violent caning. But yesterday, in the aftermath of the D.C. blizzard, everyone who showed up in the chamber had at least one thing in common—they were all women.

Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, pointed this out in her closing statement. "As we convene this morning," she said, "you look around the chamber, and the presiding officer [Senator Susan Collins, R-ME] is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female."

"This was not orchestrated in any way shape or form," she added. "We came in this morning and looked around and thought 'something is different this morning'—different in a good way, I might add." (via)

baby bears float too

Baby polar bear bums a ride on its mother's bare bum https://t.co/DaVF8cyUlk pic.twitter.com/s1Pi1KZWXG

— Mashable (@mashable) January 27, 2016

of course baby hedgehogs float!

baby hedgehogs can float 😁 pic.twitter.com/D6YcA7eZVs

— Animal Gifs (@BabyAnimalGifs) January 27, 2016

invisible cities, illustrated.

Lima-based architect Karina Puente has a personal project: to illustrate each and every "invisible" city from Italo Calvino's 1972 novel. The book, which imagines imaginary conversations between the (real-life) Venetian explorer Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan has been instrumental in framing approaches to urban discourse and the form of the city. (via)

DAILY RI RI!!!!!!!!!11111111

new rihanna song with drake if you care to listen and you do.

i wish everyone would stop trying to make tidal happen tho.