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The dying life of the tribe.

A photographer decided to travel the world for 3 years, visiting 35 tribes in all 5 continents.

http://9gag.com/gag/azb103j

#photography #culture #tribe #people #humanity

A lesser flamingo seems to float on Lake Natron in a 2010 picture.

Lake Natron's unusually harsh composition comes from a unique neighboringvolcano, Ol Doinyo, which spews alkali-rich natrocarbonatites that end up in Lake Natron via rainwater runoff.

Brandt unexpectedly found the dead animals that had washed up on the shore, preserved by the lake, and posed them as they had been in life. The photographs, taken between 2010 and 2012, appear in Brandt's new bookAcross the Ravaged Land. (Also see "Pictures: Best Wild Animal Photos of 2012 Announced.")

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/pictures/131003-calcified-birds-bats-africa-lake-natron-tanzania-animals-science/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_fb20131005news-birds&utm_campaign=Content#/lake-calcifies-animals-frozen-swallow_72201_600x450.jpg

#science photography

A self sustainable city of the future.

http://www.bdonline.co.uk/Journals/2013/02/04/y/o/d/Arup_Foresight_Future_Urban_Buildings-FINAL.pdf

#Future #self sustainable #ecofriendly #climate change #Environmental shift #environmental sustainability

"A team of British and Swedish scientists just published a new study indicating that changing climate -- not humans -- played a major role in the extinction of the woolly mammoth,Mammuthus primigenius."

"[They] found that a previous warm period some 120,000 years ago caused populations to decline and become fragmented, in line with what we would expect for cold-adapted species such as the woolly mammoth", said Ms Palkopoulou in a press release.

"[Their] data suggests that the same thing happened during the penultimate warm period (an interglacial some 120,000 years ago), long before modern humans had even left Africa".

http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2013/sep/11/woolly-mammoth-extinction-warming-climate

#science #genetics #paleontology #mammoth #climate change #global warming #extinction

With a penchant for floating on its side to soak up the rays, the mola mola is better known as the ocean sunfish, although its Latin name refers to its resemblance to a millstone. Growing to around 10ft in length, it is the heaviest bony fish in the sea, but happily it views humans with friendly curiosity

Photograph: Richard Herrmann/Getty Images

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/sep/14/marine-life-animal-research#/?picture=417216525&index=1

#marine biology #nature photography #fish

Often transparent and bioluminescent, glass squids such as Galiteuthis phyllura use their light to counter the shadows produced by their eyes, allowing them to slip under the radar of predators. They belong to the same family, Cranchiidae, as the colossal squid and make use of a special ammonium-filled organ to help control buoyancy.

Photograph: Nature Picture Library/Rex

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/sep/14/marine-life-animal-research#/?picture=417216517&index=3

#marine biology #nature photography #cephalopod

This is one Venus fly trap you won’t find growing on a window sill. Named for its resemblance to the plant, anemones of the genus Actinoscyphia use their tentacles to catch and sting prey. They can also eject bioluminescent matter that sticks to predators, potentially turning the hunter into the hunted

Photograph: I. MacDonald

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/sep/14/marine-life-animal-research#/?picture=417216513&index=2

#marine biology #nature photography #bioluminescence

The 35 Most Spectacular Wildlife Photos From The National Geographic Photo Contest

The world is amazing. You can see all the entries over at National Geographic

#Nature #nature photography #National Geographic

"A picture of Earth taken from some 1.44bn kilometres away on 19 July by the wide-angle camera on the international Cassini spacecraft. It also captures Saturn's F, G and E rings. If your screen is good, you may be able to make out our moon"

http://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2013/sep/06/star-martian-volcano-curiosity-space-pictures#/?picture=416013004&index=4

#Science #Astronomy #Space the final frontier #Saturn #Earth #Pale blue dot #Space

"This is Eunice aphroditois, also known as the bobbit worm, a mix between the Mongolian death worm,the Graboids from Tremors, the Bugs from Starship Troopers, and a rainbow — but it’s a really dangerous rainbow, like in Mario Kart. And it hunts in pretty much the most nightmarish way imaginable, digging itself into the sea floor, exposing a few inches of its body — which can grow to 10 feet long — and waiting."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/absurd-creature-of-the-week-bobbit-worm/

#Weird science #entomology #marine biology

A water vole eats on a river bank. One of the UK's most endangered mammals, nearly 90% of the creatures have disappeared in the past decade, mainly due to habitat loss and predators such as the American mink

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/sep/06/week-in-wildlife-in-pictures#/?picture=416668766&index=10

#Conservation Science #mammology #habitat loss #uk

This 16-year-old male polar bear died of starvation resulting from the lack of ice on which to hunt seals, according to Dr Ian Stirling, who has studied polar bears for almost 40 years with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the University of Alberta.

Dr Ian Stirling, now at Polar Bears International, said the bear had been in apparently good health when it was examined by scientists in April in southern Svalbard. It was found dead three months later in northern Svalbard, far from its normal range. Stirling said most of the fjords in Svalbard did not freeze normally last winter, driving the bear further afield in the hunt for food. From his lying position in death, Stirling said, the bear appears to simply have starved and died where he dropped, having been reduced to little more than skin and bone. Arctic sea ice fell to its lowest recorded level in 2012, which scientists say is due to global warming.

Ashley Cooper/Global Warming Images

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/picture/2013/aug/06/polar-bear-climate-change-sea-ice

#climate change #climateaction #mammology #global warming

Phrenology: Like Reading a Crystal Ball, But With People’s Heads

They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but they never said anything about not judging a man by the bumps on his skull. So phrenologists went out and did just that.

By taking measurements of the skull, phrenology’s founder Franz Josef Gall argued around the turn of the 19th century, you could determine a person’s personality traits, propensities, and intelligence. This was because the region of the brain responsible for, say, self-esteem, would grow larger in a more confident person, consequently pushing out the skull. Phrenologists could feel a subject’s head for these abnormalities, a bit like a psychic reading a crystal ball, in the sense that both practices are absurd ways to relieve people of their money.

Aside from its many scientific problems, phrenology also had social consequences. The theory came about in the dark days of colonialism and wormed its way into Europeans’ judgments of the peoples they were subjugating. For instance, in Rwanda, the Belgians' phrenological assessments deemed the Tutsis more intelligent than the Hutus, helping to sow the seeds for a genocide that took place decades later. And these methods were of course broadened to deem Europeans inherently more intelligent than Africans.

But Franz Josef Gall’s theory that behaviors and thought processes are contained in certain parts of the brain turned out to have a grain of truth. Decades later, brain scans showed that many parts of the brain are indeed more active during specific activities. More recently, there's been a backlash against the kind of overly simplistic "neophrenology" that pins specific functions on specific brain regions. Exactly what job – or jobs – any given part of the brain does is a question that will keep neuroscientists scratching their heads for years.

Image: Wikimedia

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/08/the-most-bonkers-scientific-theories-and-why-you-should-be-thankful-for-them/?mbid=social10648404&pid=9321

#debunking #Science illustration

Atlantic puffins collecting flowers for nesting material, Newfoundland, Canada

Photograph: Megan Lorenz / Rex Features/Megan Lorenz / Rex Features

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2013/aug/09/week-in-wildlife-in-pictures?CMP=ema_632&et_cid=44912&et_rid=6362126&Linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fenvironment%2fgallery%2f2013%2faug%2f09%2fweek-in-wildlife-in-pictures#/?picture=414695915&index=2

#Nature #nature photography #Ornithology

Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients

"Dmytre’s suitcase is another that I really like, it’s the last case I did. Dmytre was very moving. He was Ukrainian and clearly brilliant. He had notebooks filled with drawings of sine waves and mathematical things like that. There’s a wedding picture of Dmytre and his wife, and she’s holding a bouquet of fake flowers, which were also in the case."

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/abandoned-suitcases-reveal-private-lives-of-insane-asylum-patients/

http://www.100people.org/statistics_100stats.php?section=statistics

Periodic Table of the world's best footballers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/jan/25/worlds-best-footballers-visualised-periodic-table#

#Science #Cool-Science #Science illustration #Football

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