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Golden Ratio Diyas

We celebrated Diwali festival recently....and I was experimenting with golden ratio in paintings...so here it is...a row of diya decoration using golden ratio...

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Eighty percent of all known bioluminescent groups inhabit the world’s oceans. At certain depths, nearly all organisms glow. On land, things are quite different. There are bioluminescent fungi and insects, but no flowering plants, birds, reptiles, amphibians, or mammals that glow—a mystery that scientists are still researching. Pictured is the vibrant Panellus stipticus, or bitter oyster, a common example of a bioluminescent mushroom. It grows on decaying wood around the world and is too acidic tasting to be edible—hence, its name. Photo: Ylem

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presumably surface life didn't adapt for lack of light

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The smallest mammal that ever lived could be sitting right on your shoulder, and you’d hardly know it. Batodonoides vanhouteni (model pictured) lived about 50 million years ago in what is now Wyoming, and was so small that it could climb up a pencil. It also weighed as little as a dollar bill! Several slightly larger species of these mini-mammals lived between 55 and 42 million years ago, but they are now all extinct. Its closest living relatives are modern-day shrews and moles. Photo: randychiu

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'Awww' and 'Awe' moment

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It’s International Bat Week! These animals are an incredible success story: of the 5,400 known living species of mammals, more than 1,000 are bats. The one pictured here is the infamous vampire bat, named because of its spooky feeding habits: these bats often crawl undetected onto the bodies of their sleeping prey to bite them and sip their blood. But unlike in a horror film, vampire bats rarely kill, and their “victims” (typically birds or livestock) seldom realize they’ve been bitten.

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Huh..Vampires aren't deadly?!:)

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The blue sea slug, or the blue glaucus, is full of surprises. It floats upside down, and its brilliant blue coloring is reserved for its underside, to confuse flying predators from above. It’s also a fierce predator in its own right: it preys on the highly poisonous Portuguese Man-O’-War hydrozoans. And not only is the blue sea slug immune to the Man-O’-War’s terrifying sting, but it actually stores its prey’s poison in the 80+ finger-like appendages on its body. When attacked by a predator, the blue slugs can re-use the Man-o-War’s poison in their own defense. Photo: Greg Schechter

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Blown away by this!!

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‘The’ life!

If the whole life could be a poem

and with a musical quality

How beautiful that would be!

A little happy notes thrown all over

graced with touching sadness

A life that could find the common link

to all hearts

And setting aside its ego

embrace the child that resides in all

A life without fear, anger or disgust

but just pure lightness of being!

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Happy #NaturePhotographyDay! View some of our favorite recent photos from Museum scientists in the field: https://goo.gl/36CDfL

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Mumblings

The chirp of birds, the cold light breeze, the green meadows, the serene blue sky with strokes of white feathery clouds. I wake up to this breathtaking view every day. Can't complain! Nature has given its all to us. I can just sit and marvel at its beauty all day. I don't want to go to work. My heart longs for the beautiful, for the mysterious, for the magical, to feel the lightness of being, like the soaring kite gliding on the wind beneath. O! How I wish I could fly!

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Ignore all the novels you think you can do without reading, but its a sin to ignore ‘To kill a mockingbird’ !..Yessum it is!

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I'm stronger than the mountains and vaster than the oceans, I encompass whatever is known and yet be known. I am the child of the supreme, hence supreme I am.

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What matters most in life is to have some work to do at any point of life

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We see what we want to see. We hear what we want to hear and we do what we want to do. The whole world around us is just an image of what we want.