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cubebreaker: Artist Steve Spazuk’s Ornithocide uses soot to paint birds juxtaposed with instruments of death to bring attention to those birds which are killed by eating insects infected by pesticides.
softwaring: Pass of the Arrows, 2013; Alexander Nail
ferreadomina: Seb Janiak
neuromorphogenesis: Violinist Plays Mozart Through Her Own Brain Surgery Violinist Naomi Elishuv gave her surgeons their own private Mozart concert Tuesday — as they operated on her brain. Elishuv performed professionally with the Lithuanian National
Strong winds make waterfall run backwards The River Kinder is a river only about 3 miles long, in northwestern Derbyshire in England. Normally it cascades 80 ft (24 m) as the Kinder Downfall. But in the strong winds of ex-hurricane Gonzalo, the river
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, 40, from Poland, was paralysed after being stabbed repeatedly in the back in the 2010 attac
malformalady: ‘Fairy rings’ in moss, Rainbow Mountains region near the Laugavegur trekking route, Iceland. Carpets of moss are common in Iceland’s highland regions. This photo shows a peculiar natural formation, known in Icelandic as “witch’s
ryanandmath: Can you tell which plot above is randomly generated? Being able to determine if something is “truly” random is not just an investigation carried out by forensic accountants, sociologists, and law enforcement. Rather it is an interesting
endangereduglythings: cool-critters: Nolid Moth Caterpillars Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,400 described species worldwide. Their caterpillars developed a very unique way of hiding from enemies. This species of caterpillar grows an enlarged,
babiesareyum: “A member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition plays the bagpipe for an indifferent penguin, 1904.”
buggerygrips: Out of Body Experience by Mateo Dineen
skunkbear: You can learn more about this immortal animal in our latest video.
skunkbear: These are “spurious correlations“ (created by Tyler Vigen) paired with a comic (by XKCD). Here’s the cool thing: Vigen points out that when we laugh at these correlations we are actually acting like scientists. He explains it better
Zebroid is the name given to a hybrid between a zebra and any other equine. Exciting specific names have been given to the offspring between zebras and horses (“zorses”), donkeys (“zonkeys”, “zedonks” or “donkras&
Rainbow and Cracked “Fairy Chimney” The region of Cappadocia (Capadokya) is located in central Turkey, and is the setting for one of the strangest landscapes in the world. The deep valleys and soaring rock formations are volcanic rock formati
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shithowdy: nubbsgalore: every autumn, tens of millions of monarch butterflies travel to their ancestral winter roosts in mexico’s mountain fir forests, coating the trunks of the trees in the orange of their wings, and causing the branches to droop
itscolossal: Beautiful Chemistry: Amazing Chemical Reactions Filmed with a 4K UltraHD Camera [VIDEO]
pizzzatime: prguitarman: gallowhill: Tim Taylor, Domestic Erosion, 2003
cubebreaker: These spiral staircase photographs show how design styles differ both by historical era and cultural location.
sixpenceee: Sticking tape on a frosted glass makes it see through. Air and glass have a very different refractive index, so if you have a rough glass surface, the incoming light is scattered in all directions, thus blurring the image you see through
text-mode: Los Prismos Basálticos, Mexico. Nature goes blocky. source
art-life-architecture: Vincent Callebaut - Architecture of the Future.
tabletopwhale: This month I made patterns from Youtube videos of flying animals! I marked specific points on the wing throughout one wingbeat, and drew in curves that fit all 15 points in the wingbeat loop. You can check out the full sized GIF here or
dragoncharming: The male teacock’s extravagant handles evolved to attract the attention of the drabber-colored teahen. The males with the largest, glossiest, and most brilliantly colored handles will attract a small harem of females. Males compete
kelledia: Yuanyang rice terraces, China.
nubbsgalore: photos by matt smith from the Illawarra coast in new south wales of bluebottles, violet snails and blue dragons. despite its resemblance to the jellyfish, the bluebottle is more closely related to coral. known as a zooid, the bluebottle
malformalady: Skeleton displaying Sirenomelia, also known as ‘Mermaid syndrome’ is a life-threatening illness, marked by the rotation and fusion of a sufferer’s legs. The rare congenital deformity causes what looks like a single limb, resembling
pixography: Juan & Diëgo ~ “We Are Never Alone”, 2014
malformalady: Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP) (also known as “tooth in eye” surgery) is a medical procedure to restore vision in the most severe cases of corneal and ocular surface patients. It includes removal of a tooth from the patient or
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“Mad Jack” Churchill (1906 - 1996) Properly named Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, “Mad Jack” was a British soldier who fought in the Second World War. With a longbow and a broadsword. His motto was ”Any officer
rhamphotheca: denotational: Mary River Turtle (Elusor macrurus) - Endangered, found occurs in SE Queensland, Australia (photo: Manda @ I Love A Sunburnt Country) Some more information (and images of punk algae haircuts) can be found here.
Mount Thor, Baffin Island, Canada This mountain in Auyuittuq National Park is one of many, all of which are made out of granite with many named after Norse gods. Mount Thor, known to the Inuit as Qaisualuk, is not the tallest of these, ranking only tenth.
nathanvieland: My first .gif animation!
fieldmuseumphotoarchives: Mammal Monday, Anteater. All anteaters have elongated snouts equipped with a thin tongue that can be extended to a length greater than the length of the head; their tube-shaped mouths have lips but no teeth. © The Field Museum,
Counting in binary Instead of counting up to five on each hand, a binary system can be used to count up to 31 on one hand, and up to 1023 on two hands. This is done by using your fingers to represent increasing numbers, multiplying by two each time. Once
malformalady: A snorkeling tourist floats in a cenote called Las Calaveras—“the skulls”—near Tulum. Local Maya got their drinking water here until about 30 years ago, when divers found bones. Archaeologists have recorded the remains of more than
sixpenceee: THE COCONUT CRAB Birgus latro also known as the coconut crab is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. They can grow up to a leg span of 3 ft. It sometimes takes 120 years to reach it’s full size. It’s also known as the robber
1920s Mugshots Instead of the usual style of holding a sign and having front and profile shots taken, these “special photographs” have a far more casual feel. The name, date, and in some cases other details are etched onto the photographs
kelledia: http://kelledia.tumblr.com The Rio Caño Cristales - most colorful river (caused by algae and moss seen through the water), Colombia.
A warning sign at the St Lucia Crocodile Park, South Africa.
libutron: Sapphire-tailed Clearwing - Loxophlebia nomia Loxophlebia nomia (Arctiidae - Ctenuchini) is a species of neotropical moth belonging to a group commonly referred to as tiger moths or wasp moths. Members of the tribes Ctenuchini (like Loxophlebi
nubbsgalore: photos by colin cameron from his home in the isle of lewis, in the outer hebrides. the island is home to the callanish standing stones, seen in several of the photos, which were erected about five thousand years ago.
sedgewina: Many soldiers came back from the trenches of WWI missing bits of their face. But 1920s society wasn’t the nicest place to look like a gnarled piece of meat, and facial surgery was barely beyond grafting your finger to your nose. The answer:
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zerostatereflex: MIT Robotic Cheetah Oh HELL YES. Notice in the 2nd gif the “cheetah” runs untethered. “MIT researchers have developed an algorithm for bounding that they’ve successfully implemented in a robotic cheetah.” AWESOME. “The
Return to the Sea: Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto Motoi is known for working with salt, often in the form of temporary, intricate, large-scale labyrinths. Salt, a traditional symbol for purification and mourning in Japanese culture, is used in funeral ritua
blck-kng: We Are All Made of Stars
pixography: Katy Wiedemann ~ “Rebirth of the Scientific Model”
1863-project: tigertwo1515: Source OKAY, LET’S TALK ABOUT ROBERT SMALLS (BECAUSE HE HAS A NAME, THANK YOU VERY MUCH). ANYWAY. Robert Smalls was born into slavery in 1839 and. at the age of 12. his owner leased him out in Charleston, South Carolina.
archiemcphee: The beautiful woodpile mosaic owls are the work of Gary Tallman, an 82-year-old Montana resident who turns the chore of stacking firewood into an art form. Over the years Tallman has learned the many colors found in various types of cordwoo
sixpenceee: Pictures of Sunsets through Shattered Mirrors by Bing Wright
pyrrhiccomedy: Looks kind of strange, doesn’t it? The way the ground ripples like that? This is Verdun today. During World War I, seven hundred thousand people died in battle here, with another three hundred thousand dead from injuries, over the course
neopetcemetery: Falkirk Wheel - Falkirk Scotland The Falkirk Wheel takes about as much energy as it would to boil about 8 kettles of water
supersonicart: Graham Curran. Paintings by Graham Curran mixing popular culture and sea creatures: Read More
yodiscrepo: Así se hacen las multiplicaciones al estilo maya. “How to do multiplications Mayan style.”
science: The solar eclipse of August 21, 1914, seen from 66 degrees north, in the town of Sandnessjøen, in Northern Norway. Solar eclipses are always cool, and this is especially interesting to me because the center of this eclipse, the point at which
thar-cionn: St. Stephen’s Green from the air, Dublin City - 23/4/14
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