My Arthur Kitty
These close ups are making the eyes look……..interestingly creepy.
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A baby hippopotamus that survived tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast formed a strong bond with a giant male century-old tortoise in an animal facility in the port city of Mombassa.
The hippopotamus, nicknamed Owen and weighing about 300 kilograms (650 pounds), was swept down Sabaki River into the Indian Ocean, then forced back to shore when tsunami waves struck the Kenyan coast on December 26, before wildlife rangers rescued him.
After it was swept away and lost its mother, the hippo was traumatized. It had to look for something to be a surrogate mother. Fortunately , it landed on the tortoise and established a strong bond. They swim, eat and sleep together,” the ecologist added. “The hippo follows the tortoise exactly the way it followed its mother. somebody approaches the tortoise, the hippo becomes aggressive, as if protecting its biological mother,”
Two research teams have found new evidence of transformations in elusive elementary particles called neutrinos. The findings may finally help explain why the universe didn’t vanish shortly after its birth.
“These results are just the beginning of the story for neutrinos,” said physicist Robert Plunkett of Fermilab in Chicago. “They could lead to clues … and tell us why there’s now far more matter than antimatter.”
Most neutrinos are emitted by the sun, and are so small and ghostly that billions pass through our bodies every second. Most go right through Earth without hitting anything. But some human-built devices — slabs of iron and plastic, big chambers of oil or water lined with photon detectors, or detector arrays plunged into seawater or Antarctic ice — can record the blip of light when a neutrino occasionally slams into an atom.
Sexy science things excite me.
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Sea Pen of the Night
Only emerging at night, this new species of sea pen went undiscovered until the recent Philippines expedition.
Like corals, sea pens are actually composed of colonies of polyps—tiny animals—working together. The bottom polyp in a sea pen becomes the base after shedding its tentacles and growing a large “bulb” to anchor itself in the sandy sea bottom.
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“all division of matter into independent bodies with absolutely determined outlines is an artificial division” (Bergson, Matter & Memory 1896)
MADA3 – resolution « long exposure photography, video and sculpture
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“Now a novel approach to photographic imaging is making its way into cameras and smartphones. Computational photography, a subdiscipline of computer graphics, conjures up images rather than simply capturing them. More computer animation than pinhole camera, in other words, though using real light refracted through a lens rather than the virtual sort. The basic premise is to use multiple exposures, and even multiple lenses, to capture information from which photographs may be derived. These data contain a raft of potential pictures which software then converts into what, at first blush, looks like a conventional photo.”
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