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endless-inside: The arbitrary nature of consensus reality

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:06:38 -0400

endless-inside:

The arbitrary nature of consensus reality

stringharmonics: I took my second picture of M42 and messed...

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:05:39 -0400

stringharmonics:

I took my second picture of M42 and messed with it in Photoshop a bit to much better results.

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Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:16:00 -0500

Plastic Passion by =coby01

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:30:25 -0500

Plastic Passion by =coby01

Autumn Melody by =coby01

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:30:32 -0500

Autumn Melody by =coby01

Fractal lilipad.

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:30:27 -0500

Fractal lilipad.

Fractal Flower

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 21:30:41 -0500

Fractal Flower

Tiny fractal trees.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:30:46 -0500

Tiny fractal trees.

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Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:30:39 -0500

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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:30:50 -0500

Ghost flower

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:30:31 -0500

Ghost flower

Lithops shedding [3000x2250][OC] - Imgur

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:34:32 -0500

Lithops shedding [3000x2250][OC] - Imgur

dezeen: Garden and House by Ryue Nishizawa Photography by Iwan...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:32:03 -0500

dezeen:

Garden and House by Ryue Nishizawa

Photography by Iwan Baan

dhammatory: A made-up shot, but still very cool.

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:13:24 -0500

dhammatory:

A made-up shot, but still very cool.

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Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:11:37 -0500

here2012: one minute after sunset

Sat, 17 Nov 2012 03:10:12 -0500

here2012:

one minute after sunset

New favorite meme.

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:24:32 -0500

New favorite meme.

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Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:46:05 -0500

spaceplasma: The Life of Stars NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:11:45 -0400

spaceplasma:

The Life of Stars

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning true-color picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603 on March 5, 1999 with its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2.

This single view nicely illustrates the entire stellar life cycle of stars, starting with the Bok globules and giant gaseous pillars, followed by circumstellar disks, and progressing to evolved massive stars in the young starburst cluster. The blue supergiant with its ring and bipolar outflow marks the end of the life cycle.

Image Credit: NASA, Wolfgang Brandner (JPL/IPAC), Eva K. Grebel (Univ. Washington), You-Hua Chu (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

scienceyoucanlove: An international, shark-focused meeting of...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:50:49 -0400

scienceyoucanlove:

An international, shark-focused meeting of more than 50 nations, convened under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), concluded this week in Bonn with adoption of a global conservation plan for great white sharks, porbeagles, basking sharks, spiny dogfish, whale sharks, and two species of makos.

The plan aims to complement and promote the objectives of the 2010 CMS Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the first intergovernmental treaty dedicated specifically to global shark conservation. To date, the MoU has 25 Signatories, including Germany, the United Kingdom, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Australia, Senegal, and the United States.

“We congratulate the Signatories and CMS Secretariat on the adoption of a sound basis for conserving several threatened, highly migratory shark species,” said Sonja Fordham, President of Shark Advocates International. “The success of the new conservation plan depends on immediate and concrete, follow-up actions to not only improve our understanding of sharks, but also to limit shark fishing, bycatch, and trade to sustainable levels.”

Through the Shark MoU and accompanying conservation plan, signatories are encouraged to cooperate in national and regional actions to:

facilitate research, data collection, and monitoring of shark populations and fisheries;

set fishing limits based on scientific advice and the precautionary approach;

prevent “finning” (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea);

impose area closures to protect critical habitats and key life stages of sharks;

reach out to stakeholders and raise awareness of the sharks’ status and needs; and

cooperate toward shark conservation through international fisheries and wildlife bodies.

“We are pleased by the widespread support expressed this week for strengthening shark finning bans and the specific text that encourages requirements for landing sharks with fins still naturally attached,” said Ania Budziak, Associate Director of Science and Policy at Project AWARE Foundation. “We note that the European Union is close to adopting this best practice for finning ban enforcement, and we are hopeful that the CMS endorsement will encourage Members of European Parliament to complete this critical task.”

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