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Mesmerizing Marker Installations by Heike Weber Raumarbeite:...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:01:12 -0500

Mesmerizing Marker Installations by Heike Weber

Raumarbeite: utopia 2007, paintmarker on polystyrol, videoloop 465 x 465 x 270 cm, Transfer Türkiye-NRW, Museum Bochum

photo: Carl-Victor Dahmen

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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:41:52 -0500

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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:40:25 -0500

Escif’s On/Off Switch Mural In Poland

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:35:05 -0500

Escif’s On/Off Switch Mural In Poland

Amazing sculptures of humans and animals created by talented...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:34:01 -0500

Amazing sculptures of humans and animals created by talented Scottish artist: Rob Mulholland.

Mirrored life-size figures blend into surrounding environment and reflect the constant flux of movement day by day.

The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep sea fish of the...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:17:48 -0500

The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a deep sea fish of the family Psychrolutidae. Inhabiting the deep waters off the coasts of mainland Australia and Tasmania, it is rarely seen by humans. Blobfish live at depths between 600–1,200 m (2,000–3,900 ft) where the pressure is several dozen times higher than at sea level, which would likely make gas bladders inefficient for maintaining buoyancy. Instead, the flesh of the blobfish is primarily a gelatinous mass with a density slightly less than water; this allows the fish to float above the sea floor without expending energy on swimming. Its relative lack of muscle is not a disadvantage as it primarily swallows edible matter that floats in front of it. Blobfish eat invertebrates like crabs and sea pens^.Blobfish can be caught by bottom trawling with nets as bycatch. Such trawling in the waters off Australia may threaten the blobfish in what may be its only habitat.The blobfish is currently facing extinction due to deep-sea fishing or bottom trawling.

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sciencecenter: The only thing cooler than this female orb...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:14:17 -0500

sciencecenter:

The only thing cooler than this female orb spider, Gasteracantha arcuata, is her male counterpart below. That’s right, the two spiders are from the same species, and represent an extreme case of sexual dimorphism.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:26:56 -0500

These images are from two photographic series (“Les Amants” and...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:22:41 -0500

These images are from two photographic series (“Les Amants” and “Island”) by Noemie Goudal.

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:18:03 -0500

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Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:16:10 -0500

Alex Haw of Atmos ART + ARCHITECTURE / Stairs psychedelic!

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:15:58 -0400

Alex Haw of Atmos ART + ARCHITECTURE / Stairs psychedelic!

orientaltiger: Camera Obscure with Abelardo Morell: He covered...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:13:26 -0400

orientaltiger:

Camera Obscure with Abelardo Morell: He covered all his windows with black plastic in order to achieve total darkness, he then cut a small hole in the same black plastic material, an image of the outside scenery was reflected directly on the opposite wall, but it was upside-down.

sciencesoup: Weird and Wicked Weather Droughts, floods, storms,...

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:49:20 -0400

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Weird and Wicked Weather

Droughts, floods, storms, wildfires, hurricanes… Is this extreme weather just a natural period of bad luck, or are proof that the Earth’s climate has been dangerously shifted by human activities? Well, probably both. Natural climate cycles such as El Niño and La Niña may be driving forces in recent disasters and wild weather: the strange balance in the equatorial Pacific region affects worldwide weather because it influences the heat and water vapour in the atmosphere. However, natural cycles can’t explain it all—the Earth’s surface temperature is certainly getting steadily warmer, and years of observation showing a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, trapping gases. National Geographic shows us some of the most spectacularly terrifying results of these fluctuations in our weather.

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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:48:15 -0400

Baroque Majesty by stealersweep

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:47:57 -0400

Baroque Majesty by stealersweep

Thomas Woodruff

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:07:30 -0400

Thomas Woodruff

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Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:04:55 -0400

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Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:00:21 -0400

David Doubilet photographed these incredibly awesome toxic...

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:51:39 -0400

David Doubilet photographed these incredibly awesome toxic nudibranchs, soft, seagoing slugs whose colourful bodies warn potential predators that they are not without considerable defenses:

“The 3,000-plus known nudibranch species, it turns out, are well equipped to defend themselves. Not only can they be tough-skinned, bumpy, and abrasive, but they’ve also traded the family shell for less burdensome weaponry: toxic secretions and stinging cells. A few make their own poisons, but most pilfer from the foods they eat. Species that dine on toxic sponges, for example, alter and store the irritating compounds in their bodies and secrete them from skin cells or glands when disturbed. Other nudibranchs hoard capsules of tightly coiled stingers, called nematocysts, ingested from fire corals, anemones, and hydroids. Immune to the sting, the slugs deploy the stolen artillery along their own extremities.”

From National Geographic - Living Color