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jtotheizzoe:

Lookin’ good everybody. Discover something wonderful this weekend.

oxane:

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Fresh fruit and a halo of flies.

video from Mhoo

I love this song.

eerriinnffrroosstt:

Aleksandr Rodchenko, Hanging Sculpture, 1920

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carlzimmer:

An awesome courtship swarm of Bigeye fish  (via David and Goliath - National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 - National Geographic)

cozydark:

ALMA: The Cosmos at New Wavelengths |

The Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA), could only function properly in the extremely dry climate of the Chajnantor plateau in Chile. The 5000+ meter elevation of the Chilean Andes also provides the Atacama desert with one of the driest regions in the world. When combined, the high and dry location is ideal for effective millimeter wavelength observation.

Once fully functional in the Spring of 2013, ALMA will have a much higher sensitivity and higher resolution than existing sub-millimeter telescopes. The antennas can be moved across the desert plateau over distances from 150 m to 16 km, providing ALMA with a powerful “zoom”, similar to the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

Though not yet fully operational, these images are among the first released by the joint European, US, Japanese and Canadian scientific effort. The highest priority scientific applications for ALMA will include the study of planet formation as well as star forming regions of our universe. - ZU

miichoufm:

‘Poorest president’ donates 90% of his salary

How’s this as a man of the people: The president of Uruguay, José Mujica, has earned a nickname, “el presidente mas pobre” (translation: “poorest president”). The 77-year-old recently admitted to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he donates almost all of his presidential salary, making him the poorest, or, as Univision pointed out, most generous pre

sident, in the world. El presidente explained he receives $12,500 a month but keeps only $1,250. The public servant told the newspaper, “I do fine with that amount; I have to do fine because there are many Uruguayans who live with much less.” He and his wife—a senator who also donates part of her salary—live in a farmhouse in Montevideo. His biggest expense is his Volkswagen Beetle, valued at $1,945. Perhaps not surprisingly, under the former guerrilla fighter, who was elected in 2010 as a member of the left-wing coalition, the Broad Front, the country has become known for being one of the least corrupt on the continent. Mujica has no bank accounts and no debt, and he enjoys one thing money can’t buy: the companionship of his dog, Manuela. The Uruguayan is not the first president to donate his salary. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who came from wealth, donated his salary when in office, as did President Herbert Hoover. Hoover, who grew up poor, decided to never accept money for public service, so he could not be accused of corruption.

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kqedscience:

Amazing Close-Ups of Seeds

“In a new book, Seeds: Time Capsules of Life, [author Wolfgang] Stuppy tells the story of seeds and seed evolution with the extraordinary visual aid of [artist Rob] Kesseler’s gorgeous images of specimens from the collection. To capture their exquisite structures, Kesseler takes seeds just millimeters in size and magnifies them tens and hundreds of times under a scanning electron microscope.”

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