Sunday, March 27, 2011

America's combined energy resources are, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, the largest on earth. They eclipse Saudi Arabia (3rd),China (4th) and Canada (6th) combined - and that's without including America's shale oil deposits and, in the future, the potentially astronomic impact of methane hydrates.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Look at him! Little Georgie is the only kid I know who hates watermelon! Get him something he will like better, maybe a pickle.


A forest of synthetic pyramidal dendrites grown using Cajal´s laws of neuronal branching .... as if I understand what that means. I simply find the patterns and colors to be exquisite.


One does not just walk into Mordor....

Picture by Örvar Atli Þorgeirsson
Is this an xray image of the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion?

Or, is it an electron micrograph of the fruitbody of a plasmoidial slime mold?

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