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100-Year-Old Church Given New Life as Mesmerizing Skate Park with Vibrant Murals

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Iridescent Goethite - Tharsis, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain      

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I’m not a winter person, but there’s something almost magical about the way water freezes. From instant snow to snow rollers and weird ice formations to slushy waves, winter brings all kinds of bizarre and unexpected sights. The video above is an artistic look at one of my favorites – freezing soap bubbles. Normally, the thin film of a soap bubble is in wild motion, convecting due to gravity, surface tension differences, and the surrounding air. Such a thin layer of liquid loses its heat quickly, though, and, as ice crystals form, the bubble’s convection and rotation slow dramatically, often breaking the thin membrane. Happily photographer Pablo Zaluska had the patience to capture the beautiful ones that didn’t break!  (Video credit: P. Zaluska; via Gizmodo)

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Laser Embossed Rolling Pins Imprint Playful Patterns into Cookie Dough

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I… I used to make long speeches to you after you left. I used to talk to you all the time, even though I was alone. I walked around for months talking to you. Now I don’t know what to say. It was easier when I just imagined you. I even imagined you talking back to me. We’d have long conversations, the two of us. It was almost like you were there. I could hear you, I could see you, smell you. I could hear your voice. Sometimes your voice would wake me up. It would wake me up in the middle of the night, just like you were in the room with me. Then… it slowly faded. I couldn’t picture you anymore. I tried to talk out loud to you like I used to, but there was nothing there. I couldn’t hear you. Then… I just gave it up. Everything stopped. You just… disappeared. And now I’m working here. I hear your voice all the time. Every man has your voice. Paris, Texas (1984)

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slow exposure of kayaking with colored lights

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Pushkin

before   and   later

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Photo of the Day: Colors of Cambodia

Photography by Romeo Starcevic (Vinkovci, Croatia); Cambodia

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BURMESE PYTHON EATS RAT BURMESE PYTHON DIGESTS RAT Noninvasive Imaging Technology Shows Animal Guts

Science is inherently cool, but gross science is even better.

Using a combination of computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scientists Kasper Hansen and Henrik Lauridsen of Aarhus University in Denmark were able to visualize the entire internal organ structures and vascular systems (aka “guts”) of a Burmese Python digesting a rat.

A Burmese Python was scanned before ingesting a rat

and then at 2, 16, 24, 32, 48, 72 and 132 hours afterwards.

The succession of images reveals a gradual disappearance of the rat’s body,

with an overall expansion of the snake’s intestine,

shrinking of the gallbladder

and a 25 percent increase in heart volume.

(via Asylum.com)

While no pythons were harmed in making this series of images, the same cannot be said about rats. We might take a moment to think about how rats have made great sacrifices to bring our understanding of the biological sciences to where it is today.