21 February, 2012

Living books

A beautiful hand-made animation video about the life of books, after closing time.


6 September, 2011

National parks seen from space

deathvalleynp

Various National Parks observed from space result in beautiful images.

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Nature, Photo's, Weblog
3 September, 2011

Soapsuds and ferrofluid in a time-lapse

Soapsuds

A combination of soapsuds with black and red ferrofluid.

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Video, Weblog
7 July, 2011

How to survive a black widow

Difference between male & female black widow spider

Females eat the male after sex. This is the practice of the species of the dark black widow spider. But there is hope for the male victims. Their death can be prevented by walking and smelling the web of the female. This has been discovered by researchers of the U.S. Arizona State University. Females eat their [...]

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DNA, Nature, Neuroscience, Weblog
5 July, 2011

When your head aches, LSD to the rescue

clusterhead

Patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out. Results from a pilot study presented at the International Headache Congress reveal that six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free [...]

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DNA, Drugs, Humans, Nature, Neuroscience, Weblog