December 2011
31 posts
Panorama from the top of Mt. Everest →
“Accept who you are and revel in it.”
– Mitch Albom
Watchfuckyeahtedtalks:
Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat
“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”
– Heraclitus
Sedlec Ossuary →
The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech:Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and...
Watchfuckyeahtedtalks:
Svante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
Operation Bernhard →
Operation Bernhard was the codename of a secret Nazi plan devised during the Second World War by the RSHA and the SS to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged Bank of England £5, £10, £20, and £50 notes. It is the largest counterfeiting operation in history and has been fictionalised in books, the BBC comedy-drama miniseries Private Schulz and a...
Cinemagraphs: photographs enhanced with animation →
Tongue-eating louse →
The tongue-eating louse is a parasitic crustacean of the family Cymothoidae. It tends to be 1.2 to 1.6 in long. This parasite enters through the gills, and then attaches itself at the base of the spotted rose snapper’s (Lutjanus guttatus) tongue. It extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish’s...
"Chimpanzees living in the wild have been found to... →
“It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.”
– Edwin Land, Creator of Polaroid
Meditation improves the immune system, research... →
The practice - an essential part of Buddhist and Indian Yoga traditions - has entered the mainstream as people try to find ways to combat stress and improve their quality of life.
Now new research suggests that mindfulness meditation can have benefits for health and performance, including improved immune function, reduced blood pressure and enhanced cognitive function.
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“A psychologist at a girl’s college asked the members of his class to compliment...”
– W. Lambert Gardiner, Psychology: A Story of Search
Watchfuckyeahtedtalks:
TED Talk: Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything
Osedax →
Osedax is a genus of deep-sea siboglinid polychaetes, commonly called boneworms, zombie worms, or bone-eating worms, or bone-eating snot flowers. Osedax is Latin for “bone-eating”, the name alluding to how the worms bore into the bones of whale carcasses to reach enclosed lipids, on which they rely for sustenance.
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Lacking stomach and mouth, Osedax rely on symbiotic species...
What Halloween Costumes Used To Look Like →
