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2013 World Water Week in Stockholm. The 10 Most Beautiful Mobile Weather Apps. There are many mobile weather apps out there, one betterlooking than the other. Let’s take a look at the most beautifully minimalistically designed, and useful, mobile weather apps for iPhone/iPad. Ever since I discovered there were other weather apps out there, that were not only more appealing in design than the iPhone’s native app, but also gave an exquisite user experience, I was hooked on finding the newest weather apps. The best and prettiest I’ve discovered? Take a look at the list of 10 apps below. Haze ($1.99 / €1,79) My favorite thing about Haze? Its so-called audiovisual experience. Haze is an app built by Robocat, and offers information about temperature, precipitation and the likes. The animations in the background will tell you if it’ll be sunny or cloudy tomorrow, in a colorful visual way.

Weathercube (free)Weathercube is a six-sided cube that contains different weather information on each colorful side. Check out Weathercube in the video below. What About You? Www.nowykurier.com/toys/gravity/gravity.html. Astro.unl.edu/naap/lps/animations/lps.swf. The Plants that Fruits Come From. In botany, a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, one or more ovaries, and in some cases accessory tissues. Fruits are the means by which these plants disseminate seeds. Many of them that bear edible fruits, in particular, have propagated with the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship as a means for seed dispersal and nutrition. In many parts of the world, humans and animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. In this post, we celebrate the plants and trees, that the fruits many of us know and love, come from.

Hopefully there’s a few that you haven’t seen before :) 1. Banana is the common name for monocarpic flowering plants of the genus Musa. 2. The Pineapple (Ananas comosus), named for its resemblance to the pine cone, is a tropical plant with edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. A plum is a drupe fruit of the genus Prunus. 13. 14. 15. General - Back to the Roots | Mushroom Kit - Yields up to 1 1/2 lbs in 10 Days.

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but. We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning Photographs by Benoit Paillé Title: Werner Heisenberg Via David Sketchbook Atley. Enciclopedia de montañas | Geografía y montañismo | Montipedia. Copoazu. Solar System Lollipops. How many licks does it take to get to the center of the solar system?

Etsy seller Vintage Confections has the answer with their fun set of eight lollipops containing edible images of the planets. Get ready for Halloween with their insects, flies, spiders and centipede set, or just try good old vintage eyeballs. (via explore) Update: Now available in the Colossal Shop. Agua de nube en botella (Video) Amazing experiments with water in space. The Top 10 Environmental Blogs | Nature. On Earth, Yale e360, The Guardian Environment, The New York Times Green Blog Photo: Courtesy of NRDC, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Yale e360 If you think navigating a thick forest using a map and compass is hard, just try making a strategic internet strike to get the latest news on, say, deforestation.

You’ll find yourself 20 clicks and 30 minutes deep before you remember that you didn’t come here to discover the hottest eco-inspired baby names. Which is to say, the world of environmental blogs could use some curation. Toward that end, here are ten (well, 11) bookmark-worthy blogs that offer consistently noteworthy, compelling reportage on the environment. It wasn’t an easy list to whittle down, and your own personal favorite may be missing. The sites we list each cover a range of topics. 10. Tabla Periódica Dinámica. Future - Science & Environment - Using nature to grow batteries. Synopsis Inspired by an abalone shell, Angela Belcher programmes viruses to make elegant nanoscale structures that humans can use. Selecting for high-performing genes through directed evolution, Belcher has produced viruses that can construct powerful new batteries, clean hydrogen fuels and record-breaking solar cells.

Here, she shows us how it's done. Talk recorded 14 January 2011. About the Speaker Angela Belcher looks to nature for inspiration on how to engineer viruses to create extraordinary new materials. As head of the Biomolecular Materials Group at MIT, Belcher brings together the fields of materials chemistry, electrical engineering and molecular biology to engineer viruses that can create batteries and clean energy sources. MIRAI NIHON Project. Marijuana use - Smoking Etiquette. Solar System Scope. Wind Map. An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future.

This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US. The wind map is a personal art project, not associated with any company. We've done our best to make this as accurate as possible, but can't make any guarantees about the correctness of the data or our software. Please do not use the map or its data to fly a plane, sail a boat, or fight wildfires :-) If the map is missing or seems slow, we recommend the latest Chrome browser. Surface wind data comes from the National Digital Forecast Database. If you're looking for a weather map, or just want more detail on the weather today, see these more traditional maps of temperature and wind. We Choose the Moon: Pre-launch. The Known Universe by AMNH.

Chaîne de spacelab. AVILA PANORAMICA. Hint: Use 'j' and 'k' keys to move up and down Ver entrada shared via WordPress.com 1 year ago Ver entrada 1 year ago Sala Juan Bautista Plaza, Biblioteca Nacional.02 de diciembre de 2012 Ver entrada 1 year ago Older. Astrology. Amazing Planet Facts, Earth Stories | News, Articles & Features | Land, Water, Sky & Life - OurAmazingPlanet.

Learning about the world through photography. WATERLIFE - NFB.