Insert Eccentrica Gallumbits joke here

[robling_t]

And I thought mannequinstore.com was an indication that some of these evolutionary niches are getting split a little too finely... {scratches head}

• New Thing Learned for 12 March: "Aztec gold" dye mixes best with other funky colors like "gold ocher" and "chestnut", presumably because they've all got traces of red and blue in them. (If I try to match it up with anything else, it pitches a fit and wrecks the other colors.) [Source: latest round of dyeing.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 13 March: Prolonged exposure to radium can literally dissolve away your bones, as happened to one Eben Byers in 1932. Viva la FDA, I guess. [Source: Getting wet : adventures in the Japanese bath, Eric Talmadge.]
  
  
• New Thing Learned for 14 March: A woman grew a nipple on her foot. I'm not quite sure what I necessarily learned here, exactly, but hey, I didn't know it yesterday. [Source: Salon.com.]