13 Most Bizarre Mushrooms. These 13 crazy mushrooms will blow your mind. You probably won’t find them on your dinner plate, but you will find them entertaining. Travis S/CC BY-NC 3.0 Lion’s Mane Mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) This strange mushroom goes by many names, including Lion’s Mane Mushroom, Bearded Tooth Mushroom, Hedgehog Mushroom, Satyr’s Beard, Bearded Hedgehog Mushroom, pom pom mushroom, or Bearded Tooth Fungus. Native to North America, it can be found growing on hardwood trees. Despite its strange looks, it is indeed edible. candiru/CC BY 3.0 randumtruth/CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 alumroot/CC BY-NC 3.0 peppergrass/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ishyam79/CC BY-NC 3.0 V. Puffball Mushrooms There are quite a few varieties of puffball mushroom, all of which belong in the division Basidiomycota, and all of which have their own unique characteristics. Alfred.crabtree/CC BY-ND 3.0 cotinis/CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Indigo Milkcap (Lactarius indigo) Latticed Stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber) Bleeding Tooth (Hydnellum peckii) emmapatsie/CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 Related.
Feng shui. Feng shui ( i/ˌfɛŋ ˈʃuːi/;[1] i/fʌŋ ʃweɪ/;[2] pinyin: fēng shuǐ, pronounced [fɤ́ŋ ʂwèi] ( )) is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with the surrounding environment. The term feng shui literally translates as "wind-water" in English. This is a cultural shorthand taken from the passage of the now-lost Classic of Burial recorded in Guo Pu's commentary:[3] Feng shui is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics, classified as physiognomy (observation of appearances through formulas and calculations). The feng shui practice discusses architecture in metaphoric terms of "invisible forces" that bind the universe, earth, and humanity together, known as qi.
Historically, feng shui was widely used to orient buildings—often spiritually significant structures such as tombs, but also dwellings and other structures—in an auspicious manner. Qi rides the wind and scatters, but is retained when encountering water.[3] Modern reactions to feng shui are mixed. History[edit] Origins[edit] Atmospheric Optics. Katsushika Hokusai - The complete works. Flowered Raindrops. The story of the Gömböc. September 2009 Play this movie to see the Gömböc wriggle. This article is also available as a podcast. A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around with an apparent will of its own. Until quite recently, no-one knew whether Gömböcs even existed.
Even now, Gábor Domokos, one of their discoverers, reckons that in some sense they barely exists at all. So what are Gömböcs and what makes them special? Balancing act The defining feature of a Gömböc is the fact that it's got just two points of equilibrium: one is stable and the other is unstable. A Gömböc made from plexiglass. "It's a bit like putting a ball on a hilly landscape," says Domokos, "if you put the ball down at a generic point, it will always roll off in the same direction, down into the valley.
Doubtful existence An ellipse has two stable and two unstable points of equilibrium. A geometric stem cell "This is intuitively clear," says Domokos. CHIEF SEATTLE'S LETTER. CHIEF SEATTLE'S LETTER "The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. Optical Illusions in Art, Part 3. "QUANTUM SHOT" #334(rev) Link - article by Avi Abrams We love it when pictures play with our minds Careful! Don't hurt your brain looking at these images. Better yet, warp your brain into another dimension.
To achieve different angle, illusion or an unusual effect with only two-dimensional picture is a challenge many photographers and artists can't seem to pass by. "The House, that Swift Built" (image credit: Anna Gunter) (image credit: Josh Sommers) (image credit: Istvan Orosz) Did you know that some illusions can actually be constructed in real life? (image credit: Shigeo Fukuda.html) Aldo Cavini Benedetti made the working model of M. (image credit: Aldo Cavini Benedetti) This video is almost out-of-this-world: The "Impossible Triangle" is also possible to make, see the instructions here - with a printable template from that site, anybody can make it! (images credit: Scott Henderson, Simon Scott) Almost Real: Illusions in Art (images credit: Sandro del Prete) Transformations & hidden figures!