Yes, it's true. There's Positively Awesome Stuff at Daily Kos in the past couple of weeks. Here's just a taste:
- Awesome group alert: National Parks and Wildlife Refuges, a Kossackian salute and continuous love letter saga to our country's great treasures, chock-full of amazing essays and soul-soothing and inspiring photo diaries.
- A group has formed to keep the community abreast of the details of Barack Obama's campaign on a 24-hour basis now that we're moving into the heat of campaign season: Obama Nightly News (ONN).
- What's that you say? You always wanted to find out what would happen if Sherlock Holmes could time travel? Wonder no more. Sherlock Holmes in Space is an ongoing, unfolding, serialization happening in diaries by jabney.
- Gotta love Keith930's salute to the prosaic, but beautiful: a diary about ... water towers.
- Sweet, sad, thoughtful and provoking: David Seaton's essay, Meditations on American and the Flight of the Oozlum Bird.
- Nice series going on Women in Science by Desert Scientist, with the most recent post focusing on pioneering entomologist Mary Davis Treat.
- Speaking of series, zakandsantos has a cool one unfolding on aging, called Taking Care of the Elderly, with the latest installment focusing on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia.
- inojit looked at interesting statistics about refugees from North Korea in The Gender Imbalance in People Fleeing North Korea.
- A diary that just knocked me on my ass for a dozen reasons: swellsman's wowser, Confessions of an Aspiring Buddhist.
What gems have you run across lately? What groups that are new to you, amazing users, inspiring and interesting diaries? Share in comments!