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sixpenceee: This New, Old House by reddit user BatoutofHell821 Now this short, creepy story definitly sent shivers down my spine. Read More
malformalady:Lush tassels of moss hang from Maple trees in soft light. Hoh Rainforest, Washington. Photo credit and caption: Marc Adamus
neurosciencestuff:Pigeon powerThe more scientists study pigeons, the more they learn how their brains—no bigger than the tip of an index finger—operate in ways not so different from our own.In a new study from the University of Iowa, researchers found
archiemcphee:Artist Kat O’Sullivan, aka Katwise, (along with help from her partner Mason Brown and their friends) transformed a dilapidated 19th century farmhouse in the woods near the hamlet of High Falls, New York into a technicolor dream house. Both
webofgoodnews:Portland’s New Pipes Harvest Power From Drinking Water If you live in Portland, your lights may now be partly powered by your drinking water. An ingenious new system captures energy as water flows through the city’s pipes, creating
nevver: The soft machine, Pâté
wanokokoro-japan:Genko-an Temple (Kyoto,JAPAN)Summer/Fall/Winter
tabletopwhale: One last post for 2014. You can find the bigger version here. Happy holidays and an awesome new year!
sixpenceee:Cemetery fandom, here’s one for you. As viral nova reports: The grave is Nancy Kerlin Barnett’s (1793 – 1831). When the county decided to build the road through what used to be the local cemetery her grandson, Daniel Doty, was not happy.
biomedicalephemera: biomedicalephemera: X-Ray Dermatitis Not to say that people didn’t realize that radiation could be dangerous, it just wasn’t widely thought to be all that dangerous, and it wasn’t really publicized how easily it could cause
benmaurodesign: Odontoceti alien from 2014.
sixpenceee: HOW THE MOKIN CHILDREN ARE ABLE TO SEE WITH AMAZING CLARITY UNDERWATER The Mokin are a group in Thailand that are nomadic and have a sea-based culture. In the sea there is less light, so usually one’s iris will dilate. But the Mokin have
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I need to believe in ghosts
thegreenwolf: People often think of fire as a destructive force, and it can be. But fire also rejuvenates the land. Many grasses have evolved root systems that survive fires so they can be renewed, and some trees and other plants have seeds that only
Fluorescein is an orange powder. But when added to water, it forms a bright green solution, which glows under UV light.Despite its name, it contains only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, and can be safely used as a dye or marker. It is also used in medicine,
mandaladana: Analemma. The sun’s position in the sky, photographed from the same location at the same time of day throughout a year, forms an analemma. This shows the sun’s apparent swinging from its northernmost position, at the analemma’s uppermost
The Worst Thing About Australia Is The Silence
sixpenceee: Here are some interesting brain phenomenons you can try out. Here’s my masterpost of all things related to the human mind and brain.
Creepypasta #377: The Oldest Profession In The World
sixpenceee: The Atlantic Ocean Road is a 8.3-kilometer long section of County Road 64 that runs through an archipelago in Romsdal, Norway.
Like a freak midnight rainbow, this is a photography series of waterfalls titled Neon Luminance, part of a collaboration between Sean Lenz and Kristoffer Abildgaard. The duo dropped high-powered (and non-toxic) glow sticks into various waterfalls in
statues-and-monuments: statues-and-monumentsAbandoned Church, Kargopol, Russia Photographer: deni-spiri
Doctors in London have started trials of an experimental therapy that might one day become a new way to destroy cancers. By using powerful ultrasound waves, they can burn away tissues in the body - and one day, tumours - without leading to side-effects
sci-universe: The series “Gotham 7.5K” by photographer and filmmaker Vincent Laforet really show how great our imaging technology has got: he captured those absolutely stunning high-altitude photos of New York City at night on a helicopter. Cameras
sixpenceee: Persistent pupillary membranes are strands of tissue in the eye. They are remnants of blood vessels which supplied nutrients to the developing lens of the eye before birth. Normally these strands are gone by 4 or 5 weeks of age. PPM can
Darkened Cities (Villes Éteintes) by Thierry Cohen Since 2010 Thierry Cohen has devoted himself to a single project – “Villes Éteintes” (Darkened Cities) – which depicts the major cities of the world as they would appear at night without light
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den-of-jey: LYCON - by Ben Mauro“I imagine this life form to see the world through energy and touch alone, no ‘eyes’ of any sort.”
Light paintings by David Gilliver My Light Paintings are all created using very long exposures, and are primarily taken at night. I use various light tools to create objects within the landscape, and I am present in each image the whole time the photogra
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moshita: Bodilisk - Gods and Monsters Hedi Xandt
If Andromeda were brighter, this is how it would look in our night sky. They’re all out there, we just can’t see them Distance to Earth: 2,538,000 light years
mucholderthen: MetamorphosisWikipedia on amphibian metamorphosis …_________________________________ Nicely made — great rhythm
lockdownheaven: Cracks In The Ice
prostheticknowledge: The Real Thing Project by Helmut Smits is a machine that turns Coca Cola into water: L 50 cm W 70 cm H 165 cm A distilling installation that turns Coca-Cola back into clean drinking water Made possible by Synthetic Organic Chemistry
typical-murderess: Darwin’s Theory ladies and gentlemen…
gifak-net: Pasta Machine
pixography: Anton Vill ~ “Visceral Subject Matter” <Artists on Tumblr>
malformalady: Cargo ship shadow reminiscent of a cityscape
thalassarche: Violet Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster) with feather detail. Iridescence in bird feathers is due to microstructures of the feather refracting light like a prism. Fossil evidence has shown that birds have had these structures in their
sixpenceee: A doctor chronicled the progression of Alzheimer’s disease in one of his patients by collecting her signatures from medical forms over several years.
pixography: Redmer Hoekstra ~ “Twisted Anatomy” Netherlands-based artist Redmer Hoekstra draws fascinating composite illustrations that merge people and animals with everyday objects or machines. “How things work is a fascination of mine
fleshcoatedtechnology: Amputee makes history controlling two modular prosthetic limbs A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear
gonatistagrisea: Cephalotes varians, otherwise known as the door head ant or turtle ant, is a species of ant that uses its bizarre head morphology to form plugs in the holes it inhabits.
soopertreeman: Mythical creatures: The most complicated diagram on fictional animals you’ll ever need!
sixpenceee: Chinese material scientists have created the world’s lightest material: a graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air. The graphene aerogel is so light that an cube inch of the stuff can be balanced on a blade of grass, the stamen
sixpenceee: Pareidolia is the psychological phenomenon that causes some people to see or hear a vague or random image or sound as something significant. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, man on the moon and hearing
tigersaur: uma-humorista-lerda: Just wow These are so beautiful and eerie I can’t even Wow Art by Erik Johansson.
untrustyou: Bertil Nilsson
reagancharlescook: It never occurred to me to browse through the credits of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, to find out who was underneath the monstrous black mask. The man was Bolanji Badejo, a 7ft tall Nigerian design student picked up from a
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The New World Shopping Mall in Bangkok has been abandoned since 1999. It shut its doors after being condemned by local regulators. A few years later a massive fire destroyed the structure’s roof. Not long after that monsoon rains flooded the lower
sciencesoup: Northern Lights over an Erupting Volcano In April 2010, the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull spewed great ash clouds into the sky and caused enormous disruptions to air travel in Europe. The eruptions are best remembered for this inconveni
trumpetangst: lolshtus: The Waveform Of The Music this is so cool
nubbsgalore: Emperor penguin chicks in Antarctica’s Snow Hill Island, where temperatures drop to seventy bellow and winds exceed 100 miles an hour. The penguins are so unused to humans that they react with simple curiosity when scientists or photographer
Tomas Nunuk, from Bratislava, Slovakia, was hiking through the High Tatras Mountains with a friend on November 30 when they decided that the snowy conditions made it a bad idea to continue on their planned route. Instead, they moved towards a nearby lake,
babygoatsandfriends: I declare today pudu day! Photo by Lee Fisher courtesy of Detroit Zoological Society. Pudus are the smallest species of deer. The natural habitats of southern pudus like the little fawn are the rainforests of Chile or Argentina.
micdotcom: 9 fascinating maps show how common words developed over land and time We may live in an increasingly globalized world, but we often forget that the intermingling of cultures and languages far precedes the advent of laptops and smartphones.
sixpenceee: Rapidly sinking temperatures in Hungary caused a fog to freeze on top of a hill. This was the result. It looks like a real life Frozen. (Source)