The glowing “firefly squid” of Toyama, Japan. Each tentacle contains a photophore which produces light to attract small fish for the squid to feed on.
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The glowing “firefly squid” of Toyama, Japan. Each tentacle contains a photophore which produces light to attract small fish for the squid to feed on.
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Dog Wants to Party, But Sombrero Is Too Small
A report from San Diego, CA indicates that a local dog is ready for a big night on the town, but depressed by his relatively lackluster headwear. One source tells The Fluffington Post that the pooch special ordered the hat from an online boutique in Mexico, but thought it would be bigger. ”The dimensions were printed right on the site, so I don’t know what he’s complaining about,” said the source. ”That said, I know I couldn’t party in a hat that small.”
Via lovetowel.
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Twenty seconds of a measured random walk trajectory for a micrometer-sized ellipsoid undergoing Brownian motion in water. The ellipsoid orientation, labeled with rainbow colors, illustrates the coupling of orientation and displacement and shows clearly that the ellipsoid diffuses faster along its long axis compared to its short axis.
Credit&source: University of Pennsylvania (Penn News)
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Physicist Realizes He Has One Cat
Theoretical physicist Dr. Darwin Templeton could not be sure how many cats he had until recently when he opened his bag and realized that he had one cat. “Until I opened the bag I had an indeterminate number of cats. There was just no way for me to know if I had one cat, two cats, a thousand,” he told The Fluffington Post by phone. ”And were those cats alive? Dead? Zombies? I really couldn’t be sure until I opened the bag and — bam! — one cat actualized and ceased to be in quantum superposition with all other possible cats. So there it is, I have one living cat, apparently. Now… if only he’d come out of the bag…”
Via Charles Huss.
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Nick Clegg asked if you’d ever experienced true love, and you said “yes, of course”, and then there was a pause, and you said “why, haven’t you?”, and he said “oh yes me too obviously”, but then just stared into space for a while.
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Travel Posters for Lazy People
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roger hiorns: seizure.
British artist Roger Hiorns has turned the idea of sculpture inside out. Rather than present a sculpture inside an architectural space, he’s turned every surface of the architectural space into sculpture. Mixing installation art and chemistry, he’s taken an entire abandoned apartment near London’s Elephant & Castle and transformed it into a gemstone. Covering the inside with blue copper sulphate crystals, he’s created an other-worldly, mineralized, glinting mirror of an everyday apartment. Jewels literally glowing from the ceiling and lining the floors.The scale and production of “Seizure” is ambitious. After reinforcing the walls and ceiling and covering them in plastic sheeting, 80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow. The remaining liquid was pumped back out and sent for special chemical recycling.
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The Avengers | On the set
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Pug Immediately Regrets Buying Trampoline
A Seattle pug named Franklin saw a trampoline at Target and did what any other self-respecting American would in that situation — he slapped down his debit card and rolled that sucker home.
After a good hour scouting the perfect location and tending to some basic assembly, he was ready to hop on.
“He’s been bouncing for about five hours now,” says Gerald Robinson, one of about 40 onlookers who have encircled the hopeless pup. “You can tell he wants out, but he hasn’t been able to break the cycle. I sure hope he kept the receipt.”
Via Jill Watson, by way of Bunny Food.
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