My hovercraft is full of eels

A blog which is part science, part a commentary on the interesting or funny parts of my life, and part amusing pictures.

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I THOUGHT THIS WAS KIDDING SOGMLASG

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My lovely followers, please follow this blog immediately!

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Countryside 

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I like to imagine myself as a little speck in the distance somewhere in these photos, walking towards the horizon

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High Camp on Ushba (4710 m, Caucasus), Georgia (by S_Peter)

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I will go to the caucausus one day, I need to see Elbrus

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He's why I want a time machine

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I present to you: The best of weird taxidermy on ebay. With such gems as a mummified rat covered in paint and the head of a fox from a dude's freezer (one of many, as stated in the description). So feast your eyes ladies and gents, and make sure to read the descriptions. There be some strange folk on the internets.

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EDIT: robbie red rat was sold. With five bidders. I...what. Just...I...what

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World’s Smallest Scale Can Measure the Mass of a Single Molecule

This new nanomolecular scale is less than one micron wide at its center. By detecting how vibrations in the central arm change when a single molecule hits it, one solitary group of atoms can be accurately weighed.

More on the technical aspects and fabrication at Surprising Science.

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Awesome

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Mammoth and Mastodon, by Raul Martin.

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Interesting sidenote, 'Mastodon', the latin name for a mammoth, literally means 'nipple teeth' due, obviously, to the shape of the animal's teeth. Soooo the thrash metal band Mastodon who I'm sure think of themselves as the baddest of asses, are going around under the title 'NIPPLE TEETH'.

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Also I am sorry for my recent lack of activity, I discovered Minecraft, and have thus spent the last few days chopping at blocks with a pickaxe and making houses out of virtual lego. If people are interested I'll post pictures when it's done, it's so awesome I need no excuse to show anybody and everybody.

To make up for my laxity in posting humorous visual information of late, here's a whole bunch.

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This crazy looking bastard is called a Barreleye. Living in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean it has developed a couple of rather ingenius specialisations for dealing with its environment. Looking at the above picture, it may seem that the two dark spots on the front of its head are eyes. In fact, they're olfactory (smell) organs. The barreleye's eyes are the green-blue hemispheres encased in the fighter cockpit-esque transparent dome.

In most species of barreleye the barrel-shaped eyes (if you didn't get the name before, you do now) point directly upwards, protruding from the skull of the fish. They have extremely high concentrations of rod cells, which are the photoreceptor (light-sensitive) cells in eyes which are sensitive to differences in light intensity (cone cells detect colour). The upward-facing eyes are used to detect the sillhouettes of potential prey swimming above the fish. The dome itself is presumed to allow a maximised amount of light to enter the eyes, as well as protecting them from the stinging cells of the jellyfish and medusae which the barreleye steals food from. More awesomely (it's a word shut up) the dome may also act as a second lens, being controlled by muscles in the skull.

Even more fantastic (and this made my day when I read it) is the Brownsnout Spookfish, or Brownsnout Barreleye. This fish (get ready for it) employs a MIRROR in its eyes. A MIRROR. AN ANIMAL. USES A MIRROR. IN ITS EYES. FUCKING. EVOLUTION. I LOVE IT.

The main barrel-shaped eye (on the right) has a supplementary organ called a diverticulum. Whilst the main eye utilises a lens (c) to focus light coming from above onto the retina (d) as we're used to in biology, the diverticulum uses a curved mirror made from layers of reflective cells (b) to reflect light coming from below onto the second retina (a). This effectively allows the fish to see both up and down at the same time.

That's it. I'm done. The world is too cool for me to be a part of it. I'm going to chill in Gale Crater with Curiosity.

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"The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth’s gods…"

Happy 122nd Birthday Mr. Lovecraft

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Downloading all 6 series of the Fresh Prince YOO NO WA'AHM SAAIN', YOO NO WA'AHM SAAIN' UNCLE PHIL

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Visit Original Link

You guys got it all wrong! This is the real, correct way to pronounce gif.

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Ok shit yeah I fucked up, this dude got it right

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this is weirdly hypnotic

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I love snails RIGHT THAT'S IT NEXT BLU TAC ANIMAL WILL BE A SNAIL STAY TUNED 3 PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE

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by Cameron Davidson

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Holy damn where is this tell me so I can go there right now

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This killed me oh man

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If this happened to me I'd want to be inside the tent when it happened.

It'd be in-tents