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Photo in the News: New Leopard Species Announced
March 15, 2007— It turns out a leopard really can change its spots—or at least its species. New DNA tests show that Borneo's top predator is one of a kind.
If this isn't one of the most impressive videos you see online all week, I'll eat my thumbs. Both of 'em. Apparently, the following was the final project for some creative individual's AS art course, and he/she was generous enough to share the stop-motion extravaganza with the rest of us perusing the internet.
Funny Video: Amazing stop-motion brings us 'A Brief History of P
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Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map , which makes it more cute. it could be a very popular and really addictive thing if you keep working on it!
Because they don’t have surnames, it is not appropriate to call an Icelander by Mr. or Ms. Almost all Icelanders use the first name with everyone—including the president of Iceland. The English word geyser comes from Icelandic (perhaps the only Icelandic word imported into English).
Iceland Information
Born 4 January 1838, General Tom Thumb's growth slowed at the age of 6 months, at 5 years he was signed to the circus by P.T. Barnum, and at adulthood reached a height of only 1 metre.
Human World
An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It
"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.
Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Desca
For more than a decade Squashed Philosophers has been here to provide a way of making some sort of sense of the writings of The Western Philosophers. It lets you get to grips with a great idea in an hour or so, whether that's to prepare yourself for something bigger, or just for the joy of discovery.
This is a rather delightful drawing on one of the desks in SO250 at the FAU Boca Raton campus. Found it today when I went to Weather & Climate. I have no idea what this actually has to do with chemistry, but it’s funny as hell.