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January 19, 2016
More photos at: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/monkey-orchid-japan-exhibit?context=tag-photo
Crowds Flock to Japan to View Orchid Species Resembling a Monkey's Friendly Face (pics)
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, February 8th, 2016 will mark the start of the Year of the Monkey and one Japanese aquarium's celebrating in a floral fashion. The Aquamarine Fukushima recently opened up an exhibit featuring the rare Dracula simia flower—which is also known as a Monkey Orchid. Within its vibrant petals, visitors can observe features that strikingly mirror those that can be found on a primate's face. Certain Monkey Orchids even display a furry appearance, a brown coloration, and a tail-like structure, making the resemblance even more uncanny!
Monkey Orchids most commonly grow in parts of Ecuador and Colombia, which adds an extra element of uniqueness to the Japan-based exhibit. Up until January 12th, the Aquamarine Fukushima will continue to delight visitors with these apish flowers as they pay homage to the upcoming Year of the Monkey.
Monkey Orchids most commonly grow in parts of Ecuador and Colombia, which adds an extra element of uniqueness to the Japan-based exhibit. Up until January 12th, the Aquamarine Fukushima will continue to delight visitors with these apish flowers as they pay homage to the upcoming Year of the Monkey.
More photos at: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/monkey-orchid-japan-exhibit?context=tag-photo
December 28, 2015
Do you see him?
Does this help?
via: http://petapixel.com/2015/12/22/this-photo-of-an-astronaut-shows-how-big-the-iss-is/
The space station is as big as a football field.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/onthestation/facts_and_figures.html
WOW. Photo of an astronaut shows how big the International Space Station is
Do you see him?
Does this help?
via: http://petapixel.com/2015/12/22/this-photo-of-an-astronaut-shows-how-big-the-iss-is/
The space station is as big as a football field.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/onthestation/facts_and_figures.html
December 23, 2015
http://www.ketv.com/news/bernie-sanders-makes-campaign-visit-to-council-bluffs-harlan/37095844
Guess who I saw last night.
Well, me and about 1500 other people.
It was supposed to be a small Q&A but too many people RSVP'd.
A few thousand people showed up to support him.
Sanders: 'I am getting a very good feeling about Iowa'
Edited to add the video:
http://www.ketv.com/news/bernie-sanders-makes-campaign-visit-to-council-bluffs-harlan/37095844
January 23, 2013
Explosive Polymerization of p Nitro Aniline
More here: http://www.pbh2.com/science-nature/awesome-chemistry-gifs/
15 Awsome chemistry gifs
Liquid Nitrogen Mixed With 1500 Ping Pong BallsExplosive Polymerization of p Nitro Aniline
More here: http://www.pbh2.com/science-nature/awesome-chemistry-gifs/
October 26, 2012
These colorful pipes are responsible for carrying water in and out of the Oregon data center.
The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.
Each server rack has four switches, connected by a different colored cable. These colors are kept the same
throughout the data center to know which one to replace in case of failure.
Hovering above the floor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the scale of google's data center there begins to take shape.
Huge steel beams both support the structure and help distribute power.
Water storage tanks below the cooling towers ensure they have water available whenever needed.
Insulated pipes like these have a U-bend so they can expand and contract as the fluid temperature inside the pipe changes.
The system of pipes composes a water filtration unit underneath a cooling tower outside the data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Lots more cool photos at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech
via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/24303/where-the-internet-lives-behind-the-scenes-at-googles-data-centers.html
Hey, the internet is a series of tubes after all!
Photographed for google’s new website, 'where the internet lives', images capture a never before seen behind-the-scenes glimpse into their high-tech data centers. The pictures demonstrate the complexities involved in securing and hosting data for the world's largest search engine browser. Featured are google's eight data centers, including those in Belgium, Finland and the United States.
These colorful pipes are responsible for carrying water in and out of the Oregon data center.
The blue pipes supply cold water and the red pipes return the warm water back to be cooled.
Each server rack has four switches, connected by a different colored cable. These colors are kept the same
throughout the data center to know which one to replace in case of failure.
Hovering above the floor in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the scale of google's data center there begins to take shape.
Huge steel beams both support the structure and help distribute power.
Water storage tanks below the cooling towers ensure they have water available whenever needed.
Insulated pipes like these have a U-bend so they can expand and contract as the fluid temperature inside the pipe changes.
The system of pipes composes a water filtration unit underneath a cooling tower outside the data center in Lenoir, North Carolina.
Lots more cool photos at http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech
via http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/24303/where-the-internet-lives-behind-the-scenes-at-googles-data-centers.html
October 24, 2012
Nya nya nya nya nya. Look what we have.
So a local OFA guy was driving by our house and noticed that we have lots of Dem signs but we didn't have an Obama sign (ours hadn't arrived in the mail yet). He rang the doorbell and asked if we want one or two.
SURE!
He said he'd be back the next day with two of them. We live on a corner and get a lot of traffic - so one for each side of our property.
Sounds good to me. 
This is what I saw when I came home:
They are frickin' HUGE! 
Yeah, I know, I need to do some yard work. Gimme a break. I've been on the road for most of the last three weeks.
And yeah, I've been a critic of the President and a thorn in the side of a few DUers (I got banned from the BO group after just two posts 
). But that doesn't mean I'm going to let him lose. I'll be at the local office this weekend working the phone bank and/or doing some door knocking again.
So, suck it RW neighbors! Our signs are bigger than yours and our guy is gonna kick your guy's ass!
Edited to add. Our normal sized sign showed up in the mail a day later. We gave it to my parents.
July 13, 2012
The Watermelon Miracle
Apologies if this has been posted previously.
I just saw it for the first time tonight.
Enjoy:
May 17, 2012
This Uber-Wealthy Venture Capitalist Gave A TED Talk Saying Rich People Don't Create Jobs — And TED Is Refusing To Post It
As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject.
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In an email obtained by the National Journal, TED curator Chris Anderson told his colleagues that Hanauer's speech “probably ranks as one of the most politically controversial talks we've ever run, and we need to be really careful when” to post it. He added: “Next week ain't right. Confidentially, we already have Melinda Gates on contraception going out. Sorry for the mixed messages on this.”
TED regularly posts speeches about sensitive political issues, including global warming and contraception, so it's not clear why Hanauer's talk would be singled out for censorship.
We've emailed Hanauer to see what he thinks, but in the meantime, here's an excerpt for you to judge for yourself:
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-billionaire-venture-capitalist-gave-a-ted-talk-saying-rich-people-dont-create-jobs--and-ted-is-refusing-to-post-it-2012-5?utm_source=inpost&utm_medium=seealso&utm_term=&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=recirc#ixzz1v8r46Xx2
Edited to add link to the TED website: http://www.ted.com/
Uber-Wealthy Capitalist Gave a TED Talk -"Rich People Don't Create Jobs"- And TED Refuses to Post It
This Uber-Wealthy Venture Capitalist Gave A TED Talk Saying Rich People Don't Create Jobs — And TED Is Refusing To Post It
As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject.
...
In an email obtained by the National Journal, TED curator Chris Anderson told his colleagues that Hanauer's speech “probably ranks as one of the most politically controversial talks we've ever run, and we need to be really careful when” to post it. He added: “Next week ain't right. Confidentially, we already have Melinda Gates on contraception going out. Sorry for the mixed messages on this.”
TED regularly posts speeches about sensitive political issues, including global warming and contraception, so it's not clear why Hanauer's talk would be singled out for censorship.
We've emailed Hanauer to see what he thinks, but in the meantime, here's an excerpt for you to judge for yourself:
I can say with confidence that rich people don't create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a "circle of life" like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.
So when businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.
Anyone who's ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalists course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn't just inaccurate, it's disingenuous.
That's why our current policies are so upside down. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-billionaire-venture-capitalist-gave-a-ted-talk-saying-rich-people-dont-create-jobs--and-ted-is-refusing-to-post-it-2012-5?utm_source=inpost&utm_medium=seealso&utm_term=&utm_content=1&utm_campaign=recirc#ixzz1v8r46Xx2
Edited to add link to the TED website: http://www.ted.com/
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
February 8, 2012
Remarkable 5.7m-high recreation of Apollo 11.
This amazing recreation of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 11 was made by Lego fan Ryan McNaught from 120,000 plastic bricks.
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Father-of-two Mr McNaught will display his sculpture, which took 250 hours to make, at the Brickvention event in Victoria this month.
The Melbourne-based artist has populated his wonderful construction with tiny Lego astronauts, fuelling up the rocket ship, travelling in Nasa's astrovan and even stopping for lunch. A few droid stowaways are also amusingly scattered around Mr McNaught's impressively accurate rocket.
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The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside.
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The artist, who calls himself The Brickman, believes he 'never grew up'. The married father of twin boys was previously an IT manager and is now one of only 13 certified Lego professionals in the world.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086640/Plastic-fantastic-Lego-fan-builds-5-7m-high-recreation-Apollo-11-launch-rocket-using-120-000-bricks.html#ixzz1loOeNsU2
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Father-of-two Mr McNaught will display his sculpture, which took 250 hours to make, at the Brickvention event in Victoria this month.
The Melbourne-based artist has populated his wonderful construction with tiny Lego astronauts, fuelling up the rocket ship, travelling in Nasa's astrovan and even stopping for lunch. A few droid stowaways are also amusingly scattered around Mr McNaught's impressively accurate rocket.
...
The astonishingly realistic model even has cutaway sections so that people can look at its workings on the inside.
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The artist, who calls himself The Brickman, believes he 'never grew up'. The married father of twin boys was previously an IT manager and is now one of only 13 certified Lego professionals in the world.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086640/Plastic-fantastic-Lego-fan-builds-5-7m-high-recreation-Apollo-11-launch-rocket-using-120-000-bricks.html#ixzz1loOeNsU2
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