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June 25, 2013
Geometric images by Emma Kunz
The artist has an interesting backdrop – quite unscientific actually. Still, these geometric images are really quite something.
June 24, 2013
Not an angel, but a common clione (and a lovely photo of one too)
By Franco Banfi, via Thinx. Also available as a Phylo card.
June 24, 2013
Talk about context in language. #phasesofmatter
The Indonesian word for water is air.
Via Futility Closet.
June 22, 2013
In which the Higgs Boson calls a press conference #funny
Great humour piece by Sarah Rosenshine. Below is the first paragraph, and I’ve posted it here for archival purposes, but definitely, definitely go read it over at McSweeney’s.
“All right, you found me. Like a subatomic Carmen Sandiego, here I am. Oh, that joke is dated? I’m sorry, everything past the Stone Age is current when you were here at the beginning of time. So please, spare me your inability to comprehend temporal relativity.
Look, I didn’t call you all to the Garden Inn, Geneva so I could trade barbs with CNN’s lone Science and Technology Correspondent. No, I called this press conference for one reason: to ask that you please stop calling me the God Particle.”
June 17, 2013
Cell as a Death Star like entity (with mini virus spaceship in the mix). Awesome science illustration by Glen McBeth
* I wonder if he’s illustrated a card game before… (We do have a Darwin themed deck to work on)
By Glen McBeth (also check out his awesome blog).
June 17, 2013
Large scale whale photos: epic and beautiful.
“Photographer and conservationist Bryant Austin captures some truly breathtaking shots of whales as a reminder of their beauty and existence in the vast oceans. The photographer manages to get full body shots of them, a feat that so few are able to achieve with such high quality, while revealing remarkable details of these aquatic mammoths. Browsing through his collection, one feels like they can actually reach out and touch the giant creatures, feeling the texture of their skin while examining the breadth of their bodies.”
By Bryant Austin. Text via My Modern Met.
June 17, 2013
Illustrations from vintage children’s book on magnets by Cynthia Amrine
By Cynthia Amrine, via Fresh Photons (Can’t find attribution but would love to know who the artist is) Thanks to first4magnets.com for tracking down the artist!
June 16, 2013
Wow. This here is what you would call a gigantic rotating supercell!
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft.[1] For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to asrotating thunderstorms.[2] Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line,multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe. Supercells are often isolated from other thunderstorms, and can dominate the local climate up to 32 kilometres (20 mi) away. (From Wikipedia)
A supercell near Booker, Texas from Mike Olbinski on Vimeo.
By Mike Olbinski, via Colossal
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