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1. Fold a piece of parchment paper (not wax paper) and put a nug between. Plug in the hair straightener and set it to the lowest heat. 

2. Once the hair straightener heats up, put the nug and parchment paper in between and squeeze as hard as you can.

3. After 10-15 seconds tops, remove the parchment paper.

4. Open parchment paper to reveal your hash. Scrape up and enjoy. Leftover squished nugs can be smoked or eaten.

A comic for my very brave little noodle who doesn’t ball up when he’s scared.

Meet the Common, But Beautiful Scarlet Kingsnake

by Richard Bartlett

The first time I ever saw a scarlet kingsnake, Lampropeltis (triangulum) elapsoides, I was in northern Georgia herping with Gordy Johnston. On our way to Florida, we had stopped at a small patch of recently burned pine woodlands as much as for a break in the driving as for actually herping. We checked the environs of a small soot-edged pond, seeing only a southern leopard frog or two. Along the way we rolled a log now and again, finding first a slimy salamander and then absolutely nothing under the next several…

(read more: Kingsnake.com)

Bathyteuthis berryi is a deep sea squid that has been spotted carrying a gelatinous membrane full of 360 eggs in their tentacles.

Other squid attach their eggs to the sea floor and leave, never to see them again. Either that or they produce an overwhelmingly huge number of floating eggs and hope a few survive.

For a food-starved squid living far above the ocean floor, neither option is viable, so it’ll have to be the old “carry a big, mucusy net of children” strategy.

This is just the second squid to be seen carrying out any form of parental care, but it may be quite common in the deeps. You just have to be in the right place at the right time to see it!