Air can move things around for some dramatic photos, but on its own its pretty camera shy. He filtered the light meant to hit the object so it was collimated. Collimated light is light with waves that are all going in the same direction, parallel to each other. As air gets hotter, it gets less dense. In general, light takes a longer time to get through more dense substances than less dense....
Meet Pentecopterus, a fearsome predator of a bygone geologic period that paleontologists just unveiled in anew scientific paper. The new species is incredibly bizarre, said lead study author James Lamsdell in astatement. Its also big over a meter and a half long! Its quite possibly the largest, and certainly the oldest eurypterid known to science. Scale bar 1 mm. Image Credit: James Lamsdell Pentecopterus Leg. Scale bar 1 cm. And that were all a bunch of major wimps for freaking out over spiders....
Would you spendalmost $225for a single digital image of Han Solo from the original Star Wars? For most people, the answer is obviously No. And some people will pay dearly for it. Theyre the company that makes the baseball cards everyone had when they were growing up. Well, in the past several years, theyve created something truly unique. Theyve started a whole subculture of digital trading cardsmeaning, cards that are nothing but images on your phone....
This weekend, we roasted an entire pig at my house for a BBQ. Not only was it fun and visually-impressive to cook, but it was darn tasty too. You should try it! This is our method. Pay about $3 a pound for the nicest, most naturally raised animal you could find. Thats final hanging weight, post slaughter, so its just the meat, skin and bones. Our pigs hanging weight was 60lbs, which fed 25 people, two dogs and created plenty of leftovers....
This article was originally published on August 20, 2015. We all know that major storms can wreak havoc, flooding cities and decimating infrastructure. But theres an even bigger worry than wind and rain: space weather. Image: NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center If a massive solar storm hit us, our technology would be wiped out. The entire planet could go dark. If we were hit by an extreme event today, itd be very difficult to respond....
Humans didnt invent masturbation. We get the urge because our ancestors did too, even back to the earliest mammals and reptiles. It should be no surprise to anyone that our primate cousins are champion masturbators. They have hands, after all. Masturbations been seen in bottlenose and spinner dolphins, killer whales, and two types of river dolphin. No one knows whether the bigger whales masturbate, or what itd look like if they did....
At first, the male grips the females back and humps awaynothing unusual about it. Its called the copulatory tie, and the dog really doesnt have much of a choice about it. His penis is literally locked inside his mates vagina. Also, hes still ejaculating. The lock is the result of a combination of penile inflation and vaginal squeeze. Only after hes inside her does the glans tissue expand, and expand, and expand....
But for Amazon, the day was a resounding success,it bragsin a press release. https://gizmodo.com/primedayfail-is-a-billion-times-better-than-amazons-pr-1718214152 Amazon sold more units on Prime Day than on Black Friday 2014, Amazon says. ?surrounded by maybe a few things you might consider buying. And yet we bought the crap. So much of it. Amazon moved a crapload of stuff people werent otherwise buying. It disappeared surplus inventory on us.Its a sale! That is what a sale is!...
Both took to Twitter to answer fans questions. But they are controversial figures online, and the majority of Tweets were delightful take-downs that burned so good. First up: E.L. James. The author is loathed by vocal segments of The Internet; James haters are legion. Twitter users on #AskELJames certainly did. Rebekah Weatherspoon Book Updates! Some James fans were upset about the ridicule sent in the authors direction. A similar movement of derision to expose hypocrisy was in action for Bobby Jindals Q&A disaster....
Todays movie: 1998s asteroid thriller, Deep Impact. The scientist: io9s resident geophysicist, Mika McKinnon. Deep Impact: Everything will be okay as long as teenagers are still getting it on. How often does this happen, really? Small impact events happen all the time; large impact events happen less frequently. Image credit:Stephen A. Nelson. Verdict: Possible but extremely unlikely within our lifetimes. Verdict: Highly plausible this is pretty much exactly how doomed we are....
One button turns it on and cycles through its three modes, but only with a firm press. Thats the beautiful simplicity of the Limon. The harder you squeeze, the stronger the vibration. Like it fast and firm? Hospital visits are not sexy. But apparently marrying simplicity and style doesnt come cheap the Limon is priced at $119.00. Its charging cord and a soft cloth storage bag are tucked in a hidden compartment underneath it....
Theyre 3D-printed, look like human innards, and could tote around live, glowing bacteria. The idea is for the pants to hold microorganisms like E.coli bacteria and cyanobacteria. Oxmansworkfocuses on combining synthetic biology and design. Im holding out for a baseball cap with a beetle-filled terrarium mounted on the lid. News from the future, delivered to your present.
Digital animations are great! But so are more traditional drawings! The slickness of digital vs the nostalgia of drawing traditionally. Versatility vs whats simple. Its all very fun. News from the future, delivered to your present.
