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‘The restless bubbling and frothing of the Sun’s chaotic surface is astonishing astronomers who have been treated to detailed new images from a Japanese space telescope called Hinode.’

animated Hubble images of Saturn

‘Yesterday I posted an excerpt from J Milton Cowan’s brief memoir, “American Linguistics in Peace and at War”. Here’s another sample, about a Chinese course that was as intensive for the instructors as it was for the students.’

I have no idea whether this recipe works, but it’s like, so cool.

“Wally Wallington has demonstrated that he can lift a Stonehenge-sized pillar weighing 22,000 lbs and moved a barn over 300 ft… he does it using only himself, gravity, and ingenuity.” or: who needs aliens.

‘If there’s a tree or plant of any kind in sight, then chances are, depending on the time of season, there’s probably a caterpillar somewhere in the vicinity. Keep that in mind at all times — if you look hard enough, you *will* find caterpillars.’

‘Keepon is a small creature-like robot developed to perform emotional and attentional interaction with children. If has four degrees of freedom, a soft rubber skin, two cameras in its eyes, and a microphone in its nose.’ see it dance to Spoon.

‘Scientists often stick genes into organism in order to create something new… Give a mouse human vision, for example, and you may learn something important about how our own eyes evolved.’

I and the Bird #45 is up.

via lamguagehat: “there is little need for formally trained Urdu calligraphers. That is, except for one small ink-stained corner of Chennai where the world’s last hand written newspaper still churns out 20,000 broad sheets a day.”

via cityofsound: ‘The [archeological] researchers have become adept at taking advantage of the circus hunger of television for discovery events’. An excellent post about archaeologists investigating Passchendaele.

via cityofsound: “Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Attacked under Unequal Conditions”. The pictures are fabulous.

‘Andrew Vande Moore digs deep in his information channels to gather the most interesting forms of data visualization.’