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Tag: botany
December 22, 2012
Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravaganza! – Day 22
CHRISTMASY BIODIVERSITY TRADING CARDS
From the Phylo Project (Click on the card to go to webpage)
(see more of Popperfont’s Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravanganza here)
December 3, 2012
Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravaganza – Day 3
DIY: HOW TO MAKE A TERRARIUM CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT!
Full details at Inhabitat.com
“Materials required: Moss, plants and/or twigs small enough to fit into your terrarium ornament – Some soil – Tweezers – Reusable glass ornament orb – A ribbon (we used one from an old gift box) – A chain or string (we used an old bracelet) – (optional) Figurines or other fun tsotchkes to place inside your ornament”
Full instructions at inhabitat.com.
(see more of Popperfont’s Sciencegeek Advent Calendar Extravanganza here)
November 1, 2012
Trees ARE freaking awesome!
Really nicely done.
Via @veritasium.
September 12, 2012
O.K. rate the validity of this: There are only three reasons why a man carries flowers.
I’m seeing this as a potential visual to talk about obvious and non-obvious facets of making claims, generating hypoetheses, and things you can do to test them.
By dont fret, via Hey Oscar Wilde!
August 14, 2012
A field of botanical thin steel cuttings: black on one side, colorful on the other.
“London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color.”
By Zadok Ben David, text via Colossal
July 20, 2012
This conceptual rainforest canopy structure is pretty incredible.
“Programmatically, the project is centred on scientific exploration and harvesting medicinal plants, which provides an alternative use of the forest without destroying it. At the same time, the positive occupation of the territory it enables could provide a level of surveillance that helps to protect both the endangered environment and the indigenous population.”
Concept by Yi Yvonne Weng.
July 16, 2012
This is what a bamboo cross section will look like in polarized light #whoa
By Eckhard Völcker, via Flickr.
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