Stalking Venus

Here’s a guy that makes sculptures and puts them in the ocean. Once the salt water and tides take their toll, he takes photos. Pretty cool.

Nasa: In the year 2020, NASA will be back on the moon. This time NASA will explore thousands of miles of the moon’s surface with individual missions lasting six months or longer. Just as we did during the Apollo program, NASA will be developing new concepts and technologies that also will benefit life on Earth. [...]

Deutsche Welle has an interesting article on what they say may one day dethrone plastic. The substance, dubbed liquid wood is a special formula of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose – natural components of wood. “The lignin is not needed in papermaking,” says ICT team leader Emilia Regina Inone-Kauffmann. “Our colleagues mix that lignin with fine [...]

This is a photo of the suckers on the arm of a squid, captured with an electron microscope. However, for anyone who’s played Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers, these look an awful lot like the Pirhana Plants that keep trying to eat Mario and his friends! Coincidence? I think not! I wonder if there’s a microscopic [...]

No, don’t ask me. I don’t know WTF it is either…

There comes a time in every sentient (but not necessarily proud of it) lifeform, when he realises that the blog post he’s been toiling on for several weeks just plain and simply isn’t going to work out. No matter what he does to tweak it or rework it, it’s still only moderately less repulsive than [...]

Well, it’s not the warmest Christmas I’ve ever experienced. At 9.25 a.m. it’s only 25 degrees centigrade. Still, it’s warm enough  that we’re having a cold Christmas lunch today, putting the lilo in the pool and wearing shorts and teeshirts. Well, I guess that’s the southern hemisphere for you. Not so good for these folks [...]

Coz I’ll choon you right back, “Moenie kak praat, bru. Tsekkit the Vennis, ou pel.” Once again, the Big Picture astounds and amazes us with pictorial news from the big wide world: “The recent “acqua alta” (high water) in Venice, Italy reached a depth of 1.56 meters (5 ft, 1 in.) on Monday – the [...]

This is about the most awesome thing I’ve seen on video this year. Source: Dark Roasted Blend