Why the mantis shrimp is awesome.
Guess which one. SCORE 123 Wisdom. SCORE 154 The passive aggressive door-holding game. Other comb-over options. Ok. Every time. Tough words. Seeing-eye horse.
Pictures No Sleep | Boat on Crystal Clear Water
When the boat is on the crystal clear water it creates an interesting effect, it seems that it is floating in the air. Water like you’d get on a Royal Caribbean cruise round the Caribbean.
World's Most Beautiful Trees Photography - One Big Photo
The Portland Japanese Garden is a traditional Japanese garden occupying 5.5 acres (22,000 m²), located within Washington Park in the west hills of Portland, Oregon, USA. Photo by: unknown Huge 750 years old sequoia tree, California. Photo by: Michael Nichols Kiss under a cherry blossom tree. Photo by: Korri Crowley Yellow autumn in Central Park, New York. Natural tree tunnel, California. This is not a painting, dead trees park, Namibia. Amazing angel oak tree, Charleston. Black roots on red leaves. Most beautiful wisteria tree in the world. Sagano bamboo forest, Kyoto, Japan. Jacaranda trees in bloom, South Africa. Beautiful cherry blossom road.
Water: The Great Mystery
Fascinating movie spans the globe to reveal recent discoveries about water, the most amazing yet least studied substance in the world. Witness as researchers, scientists, philosophers and theologians try to understand this unique liquid and all its miraculous properties still waiting to be discovered. It was there that Heisenberg and Bohr came to Einstein to tell him it looked like the minds of the researchers were affecting the results of the experiments. Mind was inexorably linked to matter. Einstein later said, "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble." In this amazing film, Water, the Great Mystery, we can see that science has made a quantum leap into understanding how mind can be recorded by the most simple element in nature (water) and on the periodic table: H20.
Rumblings From the Massive Black Hole at the Center of our Galaxy
Rumblings at the Galactic Center Left to themselves, black holes are almost completely inert. They turn ferocious only when they encounter any outside material, which gets swept into a rapidly orbiting swirl, or accretion disk, just outside the event horizon. As that disk spirals inward, it grows tremendously hot and radiates intensely. But what happens, Clavel wondered, when it is feeding time at the galactic center? In a new paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Clavel identified those flickers as “light echoes” of some long-ago event. By meticulously analyzing the changing pattern of illumination, Clavel and company deduced that Sagittarius A* had experienced not one but two separate outbursts in the past few centuries. As for why Sagittarius A* went haywire in the first place, Clavel and her colleagues offer several explanations, all of them pointing to the black hole’s intermittently savage nature.
Vast fossil bed found in Rockies
What intrigued Jean-Bernard Caron was the way the dark stone sparkled in the sunlight. What thrilled him was the reason: every sparkle was the glint of an ancient eyeball shining back at him across half a billion years of time. The abundance of those eyes, along with the preserved remains of thousands of specimens that come with them, speaks to the spectacular richness of a newly documented fossil site in the Canadian Rockies. “This is a new motherlode,” said Dr. According to Dr. Like the Burgess Shale, the new find dates back to the Cambrian Period, some 505 million years ago and it has yielded some of the same bizarre creatures. “This kind of diversity hasn’t been seen in decades,” said Douglas Erwin, a curator with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. who was not involved in the discovery. The fossil bed was discovered in 2012, in a section of Kootenay National Park in British Columbia that cannot be accessed by trails. “There’s a lot more to come,” said Dr.
6 Wild Tricks of Earth's Complicated Atmosphere | Earth Science
Dry, gusty Santa Ana winds fanned a four-day wildfire in Southern California in 2008, contributing to this tornadolike fire whirl that appeared near homes in Yorba Linda. Fire whirls arise when superheated air above a wildfire drives strong updrafts and downdrafts that get sheared by the wind, causing them to twist into a vortex that funnels flames upward. Fortunately, most of these infernal twisters die out quickly, although some—such as the “dragon twist” that ripped through Tokyo in 1923 in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake, killing 44,000 people—can grow lethally large. For more than a century, witnesses have reported nighttime sightings of brief, glowing tendrils, halos, and streaks around clouds.
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Sewanee’s Forest | Guest Blog
The western escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau, seen from Piney Point, Sewanee, TN. David Haskell observed one square meter of forest here. Specifically, this small patch of forest sits on the slope at the center of the photo, just around the ridge. (credit: David G. Thoreau went to the woods to suck out all the marrow of life. I went to the forest seeking a new way to experience the natural world. So, I watched a small patch of leaves and jumbled rocks tucked in a notch on a wooded slope. The Forest Unseen, published by Viking/Penguin. On almost every visit, the forest surprised me with interesting creatures (scuttling shrews, waddling salamanders, peculiar mushrooms) or ecological interactions (bees covered in pink pollen, writhing parasitic worms, ants wrestling with caterpillars). The forest, I soon discovered, is ruled by a proletariat of tiny and seemingly obscure creatures. Lying down, I pressed my nose to the litter: fat, warm, truffly smells.
