Friends, you know well that I love sea life. Allow me to share my passion in Graphics Interchange Format: These little seahorses lined up in formation for me — totally weird Four more after jump.
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Salad tree
Remember this from season 1, episode 3 of Futurama? Leela’s housewarming gift to Fry was a miniature salad tree. Well. I saw this at Home Depot today: It is a tree that produces limes, lemons, and three varieties of oranges. … The future is now!
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[Sexy People] Why not bioluminescent trees instead of street lights? A group of Taiwanese scientists somehow injected trees with gold nanoparticles such that the trees gave off a reddish glow and absorbed more carbon than usual. This story has been blogged many times, but none of the stories have a real picture of what it’s [...]
Swarm theory of leaves
Some days, the wind whips the leaves into amorphous clusters whose shapes seem arbitrary. Why aren’t these objects of roughly equal mass spread evenly across the ground? Do slight undulations in the concrete cause these designs, or a slight differences in mass according to leaf species, or the curled, clasping edges of each brittle leaf? [...]
The 1891-92 Diary of Alvin McDonald, Cave Explorer
When Meredith & I were in South Dakota on our Epic Road Trip, we camped in Custer State Park, near Mt. Rushmore. On a whim, we veered off the highway to visit Wind Cave, the fourth-longest cave in the world. And they’re still exploring it! We went on a tour with an adorably enthusiastic park [...]
