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Notes: 68400 / 10 months ago from doctorparadox (originally from intrnetxplorer-deactivated20120)
Charles Jencks is the American landscape architect and designer behind this incredible flight of stairs. Called The Universe Cascade, it has 25 landings that mark the important shifts in cosmic history. Starting at the top, in the present day, and descending down, visitors are moving through 13 billion years of cosmic evolution. The steps finally disappear into the dark water below, which represents the mystery of the origin of the universe.
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Notes: 12345 / 11 months ago from sciencesoup
Bioluminescent bacteria
Taking cues from the firefly, a Dutch electronics company has created a product called “Bio-light”—an eco-friendly lighting system that uses glowing, bioluminescent bacteria. They’re not powered by electricity or sunlight, but by methane generated by the company’s Microbial Home bio-digester that processes anything from vegetable scraps to human waste. The living bacteria are fed through silicon tubes, and as long as they’re nutritionally-fulfilled, they can indefinitely generate a soft, heat-free green glow using the enzyme luciferase and its substrate, luciferin. They’re kept in hand-blown glass bulbs clustered together into lamps, but you can’t light up your house with them yet—the glow isn’t nearly bright enough to replace conventional artificial lights. They do, however, get people to think about untapped household energy sources and how to make use of them. The company, Phillips, also envisions the use of these Bio-lights outside the home—for nighttime road markings, signs in theatres and clubs, and even biosensors for monitoring diabetes.
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Notes: 9034 / 11 months ago from shanechabot
Light Catcher
Nescopeck State Park 2010
Photographed by: me
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Notes: 19144 / 11 months ago from artandsciencejournal
Mika Aoki
In her works, Mika Aoki attempts to make viewers look differently at subjects such as viruses, reproduction and the origins of life. In these works made out of glass, Aoki imitates the micro-kingdoms we glaze over every day. For more information on Aoki’s work, click here.
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Notes: 77379 / 11 months ago from mavharnois (originally from lord-louche)
That feeling when you’re so sad even food can’t cheer you up
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1 year ago from bookmarkletStuff We Like: Five Useful Upgrades for Your Computer's Unused Bays (and a Few Ridiculous Ones)(via @Lifehacker)
You’ve got, what, one DVD drive on the front of your computer? You have so many empty drive bays—how embarrassing! Here are a few awesome (and absurd) things you can put in those bays to add extra features to your computer.
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Notes: 98 / 1 year ago from mlq3 (originally from yama-bato)"
“There is a beginning.
There is no beginning of that beginning.
There is no beginning of that no beginning of beginning.There is something. There is nothing. There is something before the beginning of something and nothing, and something before that. Suddenly there is something and nothing. But between something and nothing, I still don’t really know which is something and which is nothing. Now, I’ve just said something, but I don’t really know whether I’ve said anything or not.”
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Notes: 2 / 1 year ago from docjuanSubpoena ad Testificandum: If the two eventually fell in love, despite the disparity in their...
If the two eventually fell in love, despite the disparity in their ages and academic levels, this only lends substance to the truism that the heart has reasons of its own which reason does not know. But, definitely, yielding to this gentle and universal emotion is not to be so casually equated…
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1 year ago
Can you give up everything when its really needed?
Can you give up everything when its really needed?
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1 year ago
there’s an illusion of foreshortening.. muzt be the Low waist or NO waist treatment but the concept is good! ;)
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Notes: 2 / 1 year ago
I am watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes
90 others are also watching Rise of the Planet of the Apes on GetGlue.com
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1 year ago
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