usually, i get all of my scientific news from NPR, and yesterday was no different. they ran a story about “the arkive“, a huge archive of images, videos, and sounds of endangered plant and animal life (though probably not a lot of plant sounds). at the moment the whole archive is not online, but according to the NPR report they have something on the order of 74 TERABYTES of data. That’s 50 million floppy disks, folks. Check it out.