The Official Website of Chennai Super Kings – Players & Staff
Does this man have the greatest name in the history of sport?
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Times Online – Homeopathy by the (mind-boggling) numbers
‘The arnica is diluted so much that there is only one molecule of it per 7 million billion billion billion billion pills.
[…] If [...]
APOD: 2010 January 19 – Dark Sand Cascades on Mars
Another great image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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APOD: 2009 November 7 – Stickney Crater
'Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall.'
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Astronomy Picture of the Day: Martian Dust Devil Trails
Stunning pic from APOD. via @Glinner on Twitter
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YouTube – LEGO Pop-up Kinkaku-ji レゴで飛び出る金閣寺(鹿苑寺)
Seriously impressive.
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jimmy mcbride
Astronomy-themed quilts.
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3-D
'Using redshift data, a 3-D animated view of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was created.' This video has been all over the place, but if you *haven't* already watched it, you should.
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Caustic Cover Critic: Deeply Odd POD
'Here's the fourth of Frank L. Baum's Wizard of Oz books, [...]
APOD: 2009 March 8 – Gibbous Europa
Wow. Amazing photo of Europa (the moon of Jupiter) at APOD today.
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APOD: 2008 June 5 – Spitzer’s Milky Way
'more than 800,000 frames of data from Spitzer's cameras have now been pieced together in an enormous mosaic of the galactic plane – the most detailed infrared picture of our galaxy ever made.'
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How the Web Was Won: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com
via Daring Fireball, a [...]
Flickr Photo Download: Egypt: Gizeh
A sphinx. There are loads of cool 1900s lantern slides of Egypt uploaded by the Brooklyn museum. Check out the Paris exposition ones as well. via things magazine.
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APOD: 2008 May 30 – Descent of the Phoenix
Major geek porn: 'the 10 kilometer-wide crater Heimdall lies [...]
With National Moth Night and the Perseids, it should have been a good weekend for night-time stuff.
I didn’t have a lot of luck on either front. Really of course you need a moth trap to count moths effectively. I had a go at treacling—spreading a mix of treacle, brown sugar and rum on tree trunks [...]