The Liquid Flow collection by photographer Corrie White features vibrant stills of liquid in motion, created by dropping dyed cream or water into a small aquarium of water.
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While studying a young star about 2.5 times the size of our Sun, located just 335 light years from Earth, astronomers believe they have found a baby planet. The planet is suspected to be a gas giant like Jupiter, but could be up to two or three times its size. In a press release, research lead Sascha Quanz said “if our discovery is indeed a forming planet, then for the first time scientists will be … Read More → "Astronomers may have discovered a newborn planet"
Why did Neanderthals die out while other hominids survived? In an article published in the Journal of Human Evolution, John E. Fa and colleagues argue that it may be because Neanderthals were unable to adapt their hunting techniques to small game, such as rabbits.
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Printmaking, origami, and bookbinding sound like activities on the day’s arts-and-crafts agenda at camp, not a developer conference. That is, unless you’re Heroku, the Salesforce-owned app platform, which pointedly included crafting demonstrations at its recent Waza 2013 conference in San Francisco yesterday. While the crafts made the event fun and provided respite from lengthy workshop lectures, they were more than a diversion. They also represented Heroku’s sense of … Read More → "Why coders should do quilting and origami"
… Read More → "LEGO spill shuts down highway lane In West Virginia"Part of Interstate 79 was shut down in Harrison County, West Virginia yesterday afternoon aftera mysterious LEGO spill obstructed one of the lanes.
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In the wilds of Australia and New Guinea, there is a dinosaur-like bird that probably wants to hurt you. It’s probably thinking about it right now, in fact. To be fair, it’s only because it assumes you want to tangle with it — which you totally don’t. But in the name of conservation, some are willing to. Photographer Christian Ziegler risked life and limb to photograph the Southern cassowary in Black … Read More → "Getting this close-up of a cassowary may be photography’s most dangerous gama"
Dyson makes some of the prettiest vacuums, hand-driers, and air blower/suckers out there, so it should come as no surprise that the factory where they are born is as mesmerizing as its products.
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The issue of wealth inequality across the United States is well known, but this video shows you the extent of that imbalance in dramatic and graphic fashion.
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Shoes, robots, houses and prosthetic hands, 3D printing has already gone well beyond the bounds of model making, and biotechnology is another of the new frontiers where the technology is set to make a huge impact. Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is pushing the boundaries of this space with the release of what’s claimed to be the world’s fastest and highest resolution commercially available 3D printer of … Read More → "Nanoscribe claims world’s fastest commercially available nano-3D printer title"
Chris and co are scanning full-sized railroad engines at insane resolution.
We realised though that some things that you want to model were too complex even for incredibly talented CAD model makers like Vijay to create perfectly just from photographs, or at least that the time taken to produce the model would be too long and the process of … Read More → "3D printed railroad engine model kits made from insanely hi-rez scans"
