Can You Raise 73 to the 12th Power in Your Head?

I certainly can not (it would have to be a good day for me to do 5^5 in my head!), but apparently this fellow can.  Not just that pair of numbers, but any pair you can throw at him.  If this is for real, it's amazing...

National Geographic Photo of the Month...

It'a a corker of an Eastern Screech Owl, in the Okefnokee Swamp of southern Georgia...