Creepy.
I’ve never felt comfortable in mist or fog.
Two guys raise and rescue a lion cub in London. It gets too big and they release it. What happens when they go back to check on it?(Via livejamie)
Christian the Lion: And people say I hate cats. The video does end pretty abruptly, though…
If you took a picture of the sun at the same time each day, would it remain in the same position? The answer is no, and the shape traced out by the sun over the course of a year is called an analemma. The sun’s apparent shift is caused by the Earth’s motion around the sun when combined with the tilt of the Earth’s rotation axis. The sun will appear at its highest point of the analemma during summer and at its lowest during winter. Analemmas created from different Earth latitudes would appear at least slightly different, as well as analemmas created at a different time each day. The analemma pictured here was built up by sun photographs taken from August 1998 through August 1999 from Ukraine.
(Via riotrepublic)
Martian Skies
Alan Taylor collects over a dozen photos of the Martian landscape and atmosphere, each one remarkable and surreal.
(Via camh)
I love the photo with the second probe and its parachute.
Rainburn
Yesterday was a really nice day. I got a bit of sunburn on my arm from sitting outside for a couple of hours, and I was still comfortably wearing a t-shirt outside at 3am.
Today, I’ve been awake for six hours, and it has been raining the entire time. Not just normal rain, but proper, hammering-down rain, where you can’t understand how there can be so much moisture in the sky.
Sucks.
Sonic just scared me
I just kicked a hedgehog outside our house, but not on purpose. I heard a rustling and went to walk round the corner to investigate and my left foot hit something bristly.
I screamed “Fuck!” in a really manly, high-pitched way as I jumped away and then when I looked back, I could just make out this little ball of spines in the moonlight.
I went to take a photo with my phone but then realised that it was inside charging.
When I took a step closer, it took off and I realised that some hedgehogs might actually be as fast as Sonic. I always thought they were slow-moving, but this thing was fricking fast.
Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond between animal and human.
I remember reading about the work he did, but to see him speak is really great.
I think this is my favourite TED Talk so far. Although there was one about Space travel and new photographs of a planet (I think it was Jupiter) that I saw a few months ago, where the lady giving the talk was so passionate and emotional that it gave me goosebumps, but I can’t find it on the site.
(via hilker : johnbrissenden : mrpower)
Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil
“One of South America’s few remaining uncontacted indigenous tribes has been spotted and photographed on the border between Brazil and Peru.” (Via BBC News).
Look at these guys - ready to attack a plane with their spears! And why are two of them painted red and one of them painted black? And a hundred uncontacted tribes? And so many other questions. I guess the world is still a pretty big place. More photos here.
