You're looking at the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, a 12-foot-wide hot springs that exists at the junction of three massive tectonic plates. It also sits on top of a volcano.

Turritopsis Nutricula is the only known animal that is capable of reverting completely to its younger self.
It does this through the cell development process of transdifferentiation.
Scientists believe the cycle can repeat indefinitely, rendering it potentially immortal.

It's About The Jobs, Stupid!
Gibbs vocalizes that these aren't pork projects....they're job builders.

Babak Yektafar says at this stage most of Iran is taking a wait and see approach

Yektafar: The Islamic Republic realises they don't have much strength for all their rhetoric

Obama has already U-turned on a new policy of not allowing lobbyists in his administration to work with issues they have lobbied on in the past.However, just two days after stating his policy, he is already made an exception to his own rule by allowing William Lynn, a defense lobbyist for Raytheon to become the deputy defense secretary.

The House Passed Obama's $819 Billion Stimulus Plan on a party-line vote of 244-188 - No GOP Votes

$150 Billion of Stimulus to Double Department of Education Budget

Dennis Kucinich States His Intention To Put The Federal Reserve Under Government Control

IMF predicts lowest global growth in 60 years

Iceland's government topples amid financial mess

Resistance to Housing Foreclosures Spreads Across the Land

Homeless begin to fight back against foreclosures by Liberating Homes

Wells Fargo takes $294m Madoff hit

Plan would buy airfare to send Hawaii homeless to Mainland

The Ailing Economy is Making People Sicker

William Dudley to succeed Geithner at New York Fed

for more on William Dudley (not much out there)

The Next Catastrophe - Wait until Pension Funds Implode in March

UK - Revealed: Day the banks were just three hours from collapse

U.S. Mint Actions Discourage Gold Ownership

December existing home sales rise unexpectedly

An armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest.

9-11 - Van Stopped near GW Bridge in NY filled with explosves Isralies arrested

Congresswoman Kaptur Points Out The Revolving Door Between Wall Street & The White House

The current Salmonella contamination in peanut butter products is the most recent failure of FDA's ability to inspect and regulate our food system. The Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency that is supposed to create a safety net to protect consumers from unsafe food, can't handle the job. Now is the time to reorganize and create a better agency that can actually deal with food safety. We have a new Congress and a new President who can make real change and overhaul our broken food safety system.