Moving Fast and Slow
You’re looking at a time-lapse of Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold, chasing down its dinner (oats). It’s a protist with many nuclei, but one single, huge cytoplasm. Slime molds are known for their ability to branch out in almost fractal patterns, tasting and testing their environment via rhythmic plasmodia. This slime mold grows in such unique patterns that it has been used to model man-made networks in living systems. It was able to design a nearly exact copy of the Tokyo rail system just by growing between food sources.
Cornell University has an entire video gallery of these time-lapses, featuring everything from moldy fruit and Homer Simpson growing hair to a dung fungus that blows its hat off. Oh, and some rather “suggestive” looking mushroom stalks.
Nature, you crazy.
Sweden’s Bunkers
With no domestic sources of fossil fuels (well – except for wood of course), there has always been a push in Sweden to go for local sources of energy. A fairly large number of reasonably sized rivers made hydropower an interesting alternative and large installations were made in the early 1900s. The main railways in Sweden were electrified from 1914 and onwards and at the time of WWII, a substantial coverage had been achieved by international standards. Today some > 95% of the rail transport effort is done with electric traction.
Disney movies condensed into a single image.
that is gorgeous.
click on the photoset and look at the individual picture omg
This depicts the color schemes of each movie. It’s… so beautiful. :’)
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i love aladdins so much
moth fuzzzz. DON’T KNOW IF CUTE OR CREEPY
FUCK IT I’M JOINING IN
Haha, these are great!
I made one a while ago, too!
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Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cocktail)
Ingredients:
1 oz. Jack Daniels Whiskey
1 oz. Peach schnapps
4-6 oz. Orange juice
1 splash of Blue curacao
1 lemon twist
1 olive (optional)Directions: Fill a highball glass 3/4 full of ice. Add the Jack Daniels and peach schnapps, then top off with orange juice. Mix well, then add the blue curacao over the top. Garnish with a lemon twist and olive, if you chose to include it. Drink… but… very carefully…
May 25th is celebrated by many as Towel Day, paying tribute to Douglas Adams’ comical space book series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So naturally, tonight is the best night of the year to drink some Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters, which, according to the book, feels like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick. While there are many “Earth” versions of the fictitious cocktail, the one we chose to post today is a more commonly served recipe. This version of the drink is served the Zaphod Beeblebrox nightclub and bar in Ottawa.
Drink created by the Zaphod Beeblebrox nightclub. Photography by The Drunken Moogle.
