Did toxic algae inspire frenzy of Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’?
Birds who consume the algae suffer from confusion, disorientation, scratching, seizures and eventually death.
Evolution – in his striking black-on-bone photos, Patrick Gries explores the natural history of animal skeletons to a haunting, stunning effect
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Wow! This new metal - which is 99.9 percent air - is so light that it can sit atop dandelion fluff without damaging it.
It was developed by a team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology and is about one hundred times lighter than Styrofoam.
Source: today.uci.edu
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On this day in 1895, scientist Wilhelm Roentgen discovers X-Rays.
When Wilhelm Roentgen took the very first X-ray photograph — a ghostly image of his wife’s hand — in 1895, the German physicist not only earned himself the very first Nobel Prize in Physics, he also gave the world the gift of creepy skeletal photographs and seeing bizarre things stuck inside living but unlucky people.
Pictured: 1896 X-ray of Roentgen’s wife’s hand, similar to the very first X-ray picture. Upon seeing her skeletal hand, she reportedly exclaimed, “I have seen my own death!”
(see more — Extraordinary X-Rays)
20 Hz (by Semiconductor)
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualizations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
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TED Global 2011 opening credits explore nature and science via liquid animation.
Screw credits, this needs to be a MOVIE.
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Cinemetrics =
A project to visualize movie characteristics by data: Graphical representations of content, editing, color, length, etc.
More information, and some amazing posters, here.
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So cool!
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By showing that a single photon obeys Einstein's Theory that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light--scientists prove that TIME TRAVEL is IMPOSSIBLE.
“The study, which showed that single photons also obey the speed limit c, confirms Einstein’s causality; that is, an effect cannot occur before its cause.”
Sorry kids.
An Image it Took 30 Years to Complete: Father and Son at First and Last Shuttle Launch.
Chris Bray and his father Kenneth attended the first space shuttle launch 30 years ago and even though they hadn’t seen any other launches in person since, they decided to make the journey to see the final launch to ‘bookend’ the shuttle program in their lives.
