100 Illustrated Horror Film Posters: Part 1 For some, Halloween means costume parties and drunken debauchery. That’s never really been my style. Personally, I like to spend my Halloween evenings eating candy and watching scary movies. This Halloween season has had me reminiscing of the brilliant horror and sci-fi movie posters of years past. Since there were so many amazing posters to showcase, I have split this post into two parts. Creature from Black Lake The Kindred Fright Night Tarantula! Death Race 2000 Silent Running The Thing Forbidden Planet House Planet of the Vampires Tales of Terror Kingdom of the Spiders Day of the Dead The Winged Serpent The Island of Dr. Road Games Equinox Nosferatu Alligator The Alpha Incident Up From the Depths Zardoz Dracula Robinson Crusoe on Mars The Changeling Invaders From Mars The Giant Spider Invasion Plan 9 From Outer Space Mortuary Fantastic Voyage Dawn of the Mummy Marooned Destination Inner Space Garden of the Dead Piranha The Shape of Things to Come The Day It Came to Earth Burial Ground Orca Mission Mars The Blob Atragon
The Venus Project 101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and Thinking post written by: Marc Chernoff Email Since its inception eighteen months ago, our sister site Makes Me Think (MMT) has truly evolved into a remarkable online community. Every day, users share their thought-provoking life stories and vote on stories that other users have shared. Some are happy, some are sad, and others twist your emotions, pulling them in several directions at once. As stated on the MMT About page, sometimes the most random everyday encounters force us to stop and rethink the truths and perceptions we have ingrained in our minds. I believe the 101 stories listed below perfectly fulfill that description. What do you think?
View buy Disfarmer black and white photographs of rural America Science & Environment | Birds show off their dance moves Snowball dances in time to his favourite Backstreet Boys song played at three different tempos Some birds have a remarkable talent for dancing, two studies published in Current Biology suggest. Footage revealed that some parrots have a near-perfect sense of rhythm; swaying their bodies, bobbing their heads and tapping their feet in time to a beat. Previously, it was thought that only humans had the ability to groove. The researchers believe the findings could help shed light on how our relationship with music and the capacity to dance came about. One bird, Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleanora), came to the researchers' attention after YouTube footage suggested he might have a certain prowess for dance - especially when listening to Everybody by the Backstreet Boys. To test Snowball's skill, the scientists filmed him as they played his favourite song at various tempos. "It was really surprising that he had this flexibility." Song and dance
6 Famous Thought Experiments Explained in 1 Minute Each Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” The ... Einstein once said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” The Open University, an online educational institute, took this seriously. Believe it or not, questions of infinity, defining a twin paradox, and other mind-bogglers, are succinctly and clearly explained in one minute for each idea. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. By Ingrid Longauerová, Epoch Times SOURCE
Dubai Architecture- The Burj al Alam, or The World Tower. Upon completion it will rank as the world's highest hotel. It is expected to be finished by 2009. The Trump International Hotel & Tower, which will be the centerpiece of one of the palm islands, The Palm Jumeirah. Dubailand. Dubailand will be built on 3 billion square feet (107 miles^2) at an estimated $20 billion price tag. Dubai Sports City. Currently, the Walt Disney World Resort is the #1 tourist destination in the world. The Dubai Marina is an entirely man made development that will contain over 200 highrise buildings when finished. The Dubai Mall will be the largest shopping mall in the world with over 9 million square feet of shopping and around 1000 stores. Ski Dubai, which is already open, is the largest indoor skiing facility in the world. Some of the tallest buildings in the world, such as Ocean Heights and The Princess Tower, which will be the largest residential building in the world at over a 100 stories, will line the Dubai Marina.
Fractal Art: Complex and Beautiful Color Inspiration by COLOURlovers Even though I hate math... I love what can be created using geometric patterns. While there seems to be many different styles of art that fit under the umbrella name of a Fractal, what I found when I went looking for more information about them was a treasure trove of amazing art. Make sure to click the images below to see the entire fractals in all their wonder. Thanks to manekineko for starting the conversation in the forum that inspired this post. A fractal is generally "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole,"[1] a property called self-similarity. 20 Beautiful Fractal Artworks Fractal by mailart-org Fractal by mailart-org Fractal by Lynn (Gracie's mom) Fractal by mailart-org Fractal by mailart-org Fractal by mailart-org Fractal by mick y Fractal by Lynn (Gracie's mom) Fractal by karl_eschenbach Fractal by exper Fractal by exper Fractal by mick y Fractal by carlitosway85 Fractal by barabeke exper
Your summer reading list: Picks from the TED community Summer: the season for cracking open a good book under the shade of a tree. Below, we’ve compiled about 70 stellar book recommendations from members of the TED community. Warning: not all of these books can be classified as beach reads. Picks from Elizabeth Gilbert, author The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman. Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror in Science by Richard Holmes. What Are You Optimistic About? Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. “ I find something incredibly soothing about the notion of a 2nd-century Roman emperor worrying about the same stuff I worry about—namely, how are we to be? Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism by Pilar Jennings. Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert. Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh. Want Not by Jonathan Miles. The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.