all posts in the 'science' category


Danse Macabre

Malignant demons with dragon heads at the ends of their feet. Haunting cemetaries, they exhume cadavers and eat them, leaving only the bones of the dead…

the sexlife of robots

Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope … it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

manufactured landscapes

“If I said, ‘This is a terrible thing that we are doing to the planet,’ than people will either agree or disagree. By not saying what people should see, that may allow them to see their world a little differently… It’s not a simple ‘right or wrong’ – it needs a whole new way of [...]

not bad : bat sex

don’t try this at home…. unless you’re a yoga expert!

Ilusiones opticas

illusion is the first of all pleasures…

true, false and random

RIDDLE:
Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must [...]

projection on buildings

I would love to do something like this!

interactive installations

Thoughts on marketing, guerrilla media, experience and entertainment from Sam Travis Ewen and Interference Inc.

A Ton of Snow Geese

I see your face. It is always near me, though I Am days away from you. In dear memory, I always see your face.
I see your face. Alone in the dark night I turn down the light and In the darkness, I see your face.
I see your face.  You did not want to cry, but I Remember [...]

in the meantime in japan

all under control, down under in Japan….

whites chasing blacks

This video is taken from a 16-mm movie made in the 1950s by the late David Rogers at Vanderbilt University.Neutrophil granulocytes, generally referred to as neutrophils, are the most abundant type of white blood cells in humans and form an essential part of the immune system. Watch as this crawling Neutrophil chases down a bacterium [...]

did you know?

numbers…

3D animation

radiohead and microcosmos

A fantastic combination!

how many changes did you spot?

Curious psychologic game…

retouch

The media world is becoming increasingly fixated on appearances. And the number of tricks used to achieve the increasingly exaggerated ideals is growing. Many models have plastic surgery and even more are retouched so they appear to have bigger breasts, smaller stomachs or fuller lips. (more)

Moon 2.0: Join the Revolution

The Google Lunar X PRIZE seeks to create a global private race to the Moon that excites and involves people around the world and, accelerates space exploration for the benefit of all humanity. The use of space has dramatically enhanced the quality of life and may ultimately lead to solutions to some of the most [...]

my first panorama photo!!!

I discovered a tool on my computer…. I made a panoramaphoto by merging 4 photos I took on a bridge in the village where I spent my holidays in our summerhouse in France: Viviez.

ant colony

This remarkable video shows a glimpse into the fascinating world of the ant. The narrator describes the intricate ant nest as an accomplishment equivalent to the building of the great wall of China.

eye sys

The Eye-Sys® visualization application is based on a simple idea: Gather data from a wide variety of sources and use that data to control a virtually unlimited array of user-created visualization systems.

skickafilen.se

Arne: “I’m always looking for smart people to join my current project. Or to be a resource in someone else’s project.”
This Swedish guy makes it very easy to send music to an emailadress…

scott howard photography (2)

zoom in on Sydney by night…..

scott howard photography

zoom in on Chicago by night ….

LA GLORIA DI SANT’IGNAZIO

zoom in on “LA GLORIA DI SANT’IGNAZIO“

milk lives on speakers.

Modern art: the explination is a lot of arty farty bla bla bla, but the images (film) are wonderfull…

head tracking: 3d

Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view dependent images on the screen. This effectively transforms your display into a portal to a virtual environment.

is there life on mars?

david bowie

F’s

an experiment …. count the F’s in the text here below:

image of surgery

This exhibit displays historic and contemporary images of medical and surgical procedures. The contemporary images use authentic color photographs and the artistry of digital photographic montage to portray the personalities and moving drama of surgical care.

the domo robots

Robots that work alongside us in our homes and workplaces could extend he time an elderly person can live at home, provide physical assistance to a worker on an assembly line, or help with household chores. In order to assist us in these ways, robots will need to successfully perform manipulation tasks within human environments. [...]

the air car !!!

After fourteen years of research and development, Guy Negre has developed an engine that could become one of the biggest technological advances of this century.

venturi eclectic

Venturi launchs the production of Eclectic, the first electric and solar vehicle to be energy-autonomous…

Plastic Surgery Procedures Animations

Dear carnivores, don’t look at those animations: you could get hungry….

collective perspection

Fantastic collection of interesting pictures and quotes. Good for hours of surfing.

launching a pig

Talking about a crazy experiment!

dice stacking!!!!

what keeps mankind alive ….?

astrology

With your date and place of birth, find your rising sign and the positions of the other stars in your birth chart, with interpretations and a great choice of graphics…

Zohar Studio

Ever seen the movie The Elephantman? It’s a great movie by David Lynch about Joseph Merrick, an historical figure who had elephantis, a rare deformation disease. He first was abused in a freak show and later he was a famous lab-subject.
A lot of artists are ‘inspired’ by freak-shows. Stephan Berkman, artist and photographer made a [...]

healing – is sugar bad for you?

There are a number of books available on the subject, but perhaps one of the most interesting ones is “Sugar Blues” by William Dufty, and, yes yes yes, sugar is addictive and does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic. Before you call your darling ’sugar’ you should read this article…

ECO

eco: ecological & economic … Furniture: unique products of worthless material; waste material from the industry and nature by Piet Hein Eek: “The free work brings the theme of the rest of the work to a head….

growth

interesting!

viscocity

Interesting video showing Laminar Flow and demonstrating fluid flowing in layers. Very cool! Filmed at the University of New Mexico – Physics Department.

sex lessons

“sexual healing”

make into space

Some guys from Make, a diy magazine, are building a weather balloon that can go into space. Very nice project.

amazing magic milk

Biochemistry project that I found on the net. …

The Strangest Sights in Google Earth

Ever since Google first let people scour the planet from the comfort of their computers through the Google Earth software program, fans have been on a virtual scavenger hunt from the North Pole to the South Pole looking for anything interesting, unusual, or unexplained.

depth creatures

These creatures live in such greath depth that they could only be photographed using special depth camera’s. Spooky!

waste-art

An artistic approach to the American waste-problem! Nice photoshopping!

ayurveda

“Ayurveda” roughly translates as the “knowledge of life”. Ayurveda is now a statutory, recognised medical system of health care like other medical systems existed in India. In last 3 years alone nearly 500 books about Ayurveda are being published in 60 different languages, in 50 countries. [...]

mark coleran

Ever wondered who made the flashy application designs they use in hollywood-movies? Well, Mark Coleran does.
A resume:

ferrofluids

Everyday there are new substances being created. Check this ‘ferrofluid’: it reacts to magnetic fields. I wonder if it will ever be used.

speed: ferrari

In 1835 the first motorised public transport appeared in Belgium. It was a train driven by a steam engine that passed trough fields and town at an unbelievable 40 km/h! This railroad had many opponents, one of their arguments was that this would cause physical damage to humans and to animals, even by only watching [...]

D.P. Tammet: incredible brain

A remarkable young man, exhibiting stunning mental abilities. Daniel Paul Tammet born 31 Jan 1979 claims to see colours and sparks, which he can somehow relate to words and numbers. Scientists consider him a gold mine to [...]

cyberface: translating a face…

Image metrics is specialized in high fidelity performance-driven facial animation, digital characters, real-time engines and content analysis. Their solutions power many of the world’s best-known videogames and feature films. Also musicians, like Peter Gabriel, like to use that technic for their video’s. See how it works on the docu’s…

Gods must be crazy…

To create a human species… How must it feel, to be a God, and to be able to create, for insance, your own partner…

the great global warming swindle ?!?

Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe … all » there’s no need to feel bad. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it isn’t your fault [...]

lunar eclipse 4 march 2007

This is an animation of the eclipse click on the moon to view it. (It’s 1.7 MB so it may take a little time to load…)
On Sunday we had an opportunity to see the moon completed blotted out by Earth’s shadow in one of those rare events known as a Lunar eclipse. Thanks to [...]

Mrs Duncan’s class assignment: cartoon skeletons

roxik

What you find on this site is a ‘happy digital toy’, and with the click of the mouse you can interact with silhouettes that appear.

L.A.S.E.R. Tag

Real cool stuff, toys for big (anarchist)boys…!!!! Defense contractors say that within the next 10 years they’ll have a solid state laser mounted on a Hummer that can put a hole in sheet of metal from several miles away. Well Dutch graffiti writers can pretty much do that now with this Hymermobil rocking a [...]

skulls

Very interesting: the california academy of sciences made a website about skulls.

concrete art … concrete light-transmitting!

Some artist use paint, some use a camera and others use concrete….

interactive with html…

Dutch artist Peter Luining: “I started to do autonomous work for the internet in 1996. I was fascinated by the way you could easily make things interactive with html (a language in which web pages are programmed). My first work researched the possibilities of interactive sound and images. These were quite simple pieces; with a [...]

fly little fly, fly

Magnificent Magnified Monstrous fruitfly.

birchbark literacy: ancient emails…

Birchbark documents (+/- 1400 n Cr.)constitute the most significant set of early Rus written sources to have been discovered. As of the early twenty-first century, the total number of Novgorodian documents was close to one thousand. Besides being of fundamental importance to the study of early Rus writing itself, and to the study of [...]

bentley snowflakes

In 1902 the scientist/photographer Wilson Bentley (wiki), made a series of pictures of the tiniest snowflakes. He used a technique to catch these snowflakes on a blackboard and then take them as fast as he could to a microscope connected to his camera…
He must have been really passionated!

B-architecten

In November 1997 Evert Crols, Dirk Engelen and Sven Grooten set up an independent design office: B-architecten. It is based in Antwerp. B-architecten is a team that developed naturally and works innovatively on a wide variety of projects: individual housing, collective housing, shops, offices, public buildings, public spaces, fairstands, exhibition design and also theatre design. [...]

ultralight flexible catamarans: WAM-V

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“The WAM-V -Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel- is a new class of watercraft based on a patented technology that delivers a radically new seagoing experience. These ultralight flexible catamarans are modularly designed to allow for a variety of applications and to fit the requirements of specific users, missions or projects.”
Yeah, just show us some pictures, [...]

quantum fysics

I never really understood what quantum fysics was about. After seeing animation on ‘the infamous double slit experiment’ I understood that it has something to do with senior superheroes with strange hair.
Interesting movie though…

Kingdom Fungi

The inhabitants of the kingdom Fungi are known as mushrooms, rusts, smuts, puffballs, truffles, morels, molds, and yeasts. they live nicely togheter and are only known to be agressive towards other creatures and non-fungi when in perill.

a jules verne dream…

The Solar Impulse
One could easily believe one were taking part in a Jules Verne novel: a team wanting to promote renewable energies sets off on a world tour in a solar aeroplane so as to fly without fuel or pollution… The revenge of Icarus, in a way.

writing down music

I can’t read music. For me music on paper doesn’t say anything. It all seems to be very complicated to write the notes, the intonation, the timing, the ‘feeling’ of music.
Stephen Malinowski thought of another way (in fact several other ways) to write music down. He made a ‘music animation machine’ with a cool retro [...]

robot gives birth

In Korea the birth rate is drastically falling. This makes that young medical students need to practise their ’skills’ some other way.
via robotzilla

the race for flight

the Wright Brothers…
A few posts ago I wrote on Visura, a company specialized in 3D effects. Now I see they are working on a HD documentary on the Wright Brothers, developing their airplane. A boys dream come true, I guess, for the Wright Brothers, and Visura, and all of us who ever [...]

dancing water

In these times of joy, peace and happiness, I feel like it’s in place to post about dancing. Dancing Water!
(You can find more amazing high speed photography here, here and here!)

extreme resolution

sharp!
xRez is a consortium of digital artists committed to exploring new creative opportunites made available by the advent of extremely high-resolution gigapixel digital photography…

multiply by means of drawing

multiply
never thought it could be so easy….

grandma’s revenge

reversable kitchen
As I was looking for new ‘kitchen’ ideas for our (Groep Arthur) next event, look what site I stumbled into…
Grandma’s revenge is a new interpretation of a good old kitchen dresser. And so it’s like the grandma herself: a real multifunctional talent…

kathleen van brempt lookalikes

Kathleen
Is it ‘not done’ to fall in love with a politician? Anyhow, yesterday I saw our minister of mobility Kathleen Van Brempt for the first time in public and immediately I felt the butterflies… I tried “My Heritage” to find out if she was a lookalike of a celebrity who has been my [...]

non-newtonian fluid

Another strange experiment. Before today I’ve had never heard of a non-newtonian fluid. A non-Newtonian fluid is a fluid in which the viscosity changes with the applied strain rate. As a result, non-Newtonian fluids may not have a well-defined viscosity (wiki).
You can do fun things with it!

bunny on uncyclopedia

bunny
Done with wikipedia!! Uncyclopedia rules!!!!

get to know your body

Body-animations!

787 clip art icons in loop

perception of the eye
Strange how you can see each and every icon, you recognise them immediately. And you see 13 icons / second!!!
bWare has put some Eye Muscles Exercise on YouTube….

high speed slow motion

One of my first posts on this blog was about high speed photography. On youtube I stumbled upon a high speed slow motion movie.
Fascinating!

faces…

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waves in a large free sphere of water

I told you hundreds of times of my fascination by water in his different forms. In this next movie you can see an experiment in the international space center. Fascinating!

Blossfeldt fractals

Blossfeldt fractals are a combination of nature photography and computer design. The fractals are inspired by the German photographer Karl Blossfeldt who made beautiful pictures and gravures of plants and seeds. The results are always very stylish and are often used in architectural and graphical designs.
It is really interesting to see how they make these [...]

storm winds

hurricanes

Jocke Berglund– who specializes in aerial photography – saw this ‘remarkable oak tree print’…

Ruben’s Tube

In highschool I studied a lot of physics. We had all kinds of experiments, but I never heard of the Ruben’s Tube. This is a tube that visualises soundwaves with fire. A fire speaker!
Watch the movies to hear how it works and to see the effect.

home

Last time I checked Google earth our country hadn’t got much detail yet. When I checked it today it did! I saw my house and my work.
The thumbnail is the home of oskar lewis!
great!

digital fire and water

Ever heard of a company named Scanline? They produce state of the art digitalisation of water and fire for movieproductions. The visual effects are awesome!

cecily brown: contemporary fine arts

digital drawing board

this amazing design environment instantly models real world physical experiments……?
And what about this one : activboard.
And ths one: flatland!!! (video)
and : digital desk (video), and the magicboard (video), the Diamond Touch (video), Multi-touch , or simply watch the Spielberg movie: Minority report….

richard rogers partnership

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As a boy, Richard Rogers was dismissed as stupid and sent to a school for backward children. When he eventually escaped from formal education (having stayed much too long in an attempt to pass at least one exam), it was to become one of Britain’s best-loved and most-admired architects.The works of Richard Rogers, born [...]

actroid 株�会社ココロ

Behold the babe butler!

the hug shirt

Say farewell to real-time contacts, go live on your island, you won’t be alone!!! You have internet, mobile phone and now there is the Hug Shirt!!!
The Hug Shirt is a shirt that allows people to exchange the physical sensation of a hug over distance. Embedded in the shirt there are sensors that feel the strength [...]

vein viewer

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Big news for everybody who uses the needle ( ): The VeinViewer by Luminetx uses a combination of near-infrared light and patented technologies to image vascular structures, thus allowing physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals to clearly see accessible vasculature (or lack thereof) in real time, directly on the surface of [...]

watson: super google

An alternative search tool. From Search. To Found. Watson understands what you are working on and automatically finds and delivers the information you need.
Watson Sleuths Intelligence: article from redherring
Watson: An Innovative Utility that Bypasses the Web Browser: for mac users, via karelia
download Watson

Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2

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Former soap star Victoria Principal, designer Philippe Starck and a senior member of an unidentified royal family have all bought tickets for the world’s first tourist space flights planned for 2008.Virgin Group, owned by billionaire businessman and part-time daredevil Richard Branson, said on Monday it was on track to launch the sub-orbital flights [...]

optical illusions

(wiki) … An optical illusion characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. A [...]

game of disorientation

game
Sure, it’s annoying when you walk out of the grocery store and momentarily can’t remember where you parked your car. Yes, it’s frustrating when you get lost driving in a strange city. But imagine how terrifying it must feel to be sitting in your own living room and suddenly not have a clue [...]

psychedelica

Experiments with the visualization of gesture. (via AK)

but the best of all : jimi hendrix  

Hindi

Hindi poem
I posted a new song on the ‘native tongue‘ page: an old Hindi song. Estimates range as high as 800 million Hindi speakers worldwide, making it the second-most spoken language on Earth. Even conservative estimates place the number of total speakers at over 500 million. Hindi is part of the Indo-Aryan branch [...]

disolve

Use your imagination!! Dissolve is a digital video installation resulting from a series of investigations of the effects of water on crystal structures. Captured through an oblique lighting 3d microscope, crystals are broken apart and disintegrated. Two projectors display mirrored video streams on perpendicular walls. by Aaron Koblin

native tongue

How many languages are there in the world? And how many dialects? This is a list (wiki) of varieties of the English language. Here you find the dialects of the Flemish region of Belgium: in the part West-Vlaanderen alone there are more than 65 different dialects!!!Even the little town where I come from, [...]

hyposurface

Wow… I’m impressed…

a walking shark

video
This apaulette shark uses its pectoral fins to ‘walk’ across the seafloor. The slender bottom dweller was one of more than 50 new marine species discovered during the Bird’s Head surveys.
another film & slideshow. via conservation.org

Major Tom’s holiday pictures

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What’s happening up there? Can you hear me Major Tom?
1001 photo’s

3d holograms 明祥�刷株�会社

明祥å?°åˆ·æ ªå¼?会社 XYZ Imaging Inc. is the world’s first holographic printing bureau capable of creating production ready multi-resolution, full color, reflective holograms from pure digital media. This technology uses patented holographic technology developed over a 6 year timeframe at a cost of nearly $ 23 Million US dollars. Combined with a revolutionary [...]

art or science

Ever saw a picture of working neurons? Ever saw a movie about the transloctions of proteines in a cel? I didn’t, the guys at Paul De Koninck Laboratory in Canada, obviously did.

the eye collection

My wife had a little spot in the iris of her eye and had to have it removed by surgery. Her eyes are quite unique by consequence.
Here you can find a collection of eyes with strange features. There quite nice. If you want to know how an eye works, take a look here. If you [...]

flight patterns

movie
The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya and the final dome piece was highlighted at SIGGRAPH 2005 [...]

rustic solid wood chairs

Together with Mario, from cartoon Mario, who visited me with his family in France this summer, I tried to create basic furniture, a chair, out of solid wood, we found in my garden: buxus. They are slow-growing evergreen shrubs and small trees, growing to 2-12 m (rarely 15 m) tall and a very hard structure. [...]

eye of science

The eye of science (what a beautiful name), is a place where art meets science. You can admire some of the most magnificent photographs and magnifications in a nice layout. Just admire nature in it’s most artistic way!

Rice Resonance

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This video shows how rice reacts to different frequencies. When the vibration changes the rice coalesces in the areas where the vibration is the least intense creating some interesting patterns. For more on what is happening in this video check out this Wiki entry.

king kong

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‘bringing kong to life’: some preproduction diaries …
movies

blue screen: the next generation

Remember the car chases in old 50’s movies? You could see that they were made with a blue screen: the decor didn’t move quite as naturally as the car did.
In this clip you can see the next generation of this technique: you take any surrounding and place moving characters in it at random.
(Can anyone tell [...]

skin color

exercise results

+ + photo
Michael Jackson website
skin color @ anthro.palomar.edu @ nationalgeographic @ wiki

Buena vista archaeological project

Don’t you like to look up to the stars and start wondering…
Robert Benfer discoverd a verry interesting site (pictures) in Peru, on his site you can download a ppt of the “Proyecto Buena Vista 2002-2005”

powers of ten

I was looking for information to write a post about the other Newton, the phylosopher and mathematic, and I stumbled upon this classic video about the powers of ten. It makes you feel small and big.

jean nouvel: architecte torre agbar (fr)

Biographie: Décidé à être peintre, Jean Nouvel s’inscrit finalement en architecture à l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux en 1964.

Fairly freaky animals

Sam, winner of many ugly dog contests, died at 14 years of age.
These animals can come into existance as a freak of nature, from physical accidents or by intervention of humans…
Phil Molyneux is a collector of ‘amazing animals’, so if you have pictures, send them to him.

a man wearing microphones in a room full of speakers

First a piece from projectsinge.net, a kind of feedback carillon & the movement that it engenders/engenders it totally absorbing – comedic, touching, strange.

watchedwire…work by Alan Sondheim. More delicate & austere than the Larsener piece, it provides a sharp&fascinating contrast in the, one would have hitherto thought, relatively easily exhausted, genre of work-made-by-having-microphones-or-other-devices-attached-to-one’s-body.
via: dvblog.org

gps art

Walk and register your march with a gps-locator. Your path is the artwork.
or…
Draw and walk your drawing.
Jeremy Wood and Hugh Pryor and the gps drawing project.

toyo ito: architecture

“I have always thought of my architecture as being itself a garden.”
interview via desingboom.com

a scientific approach of the toilet seat problem

up or down… that’s the question.

the wrong Guy

see he man who was mistakenly interviewed on BBC News 24.
read the story

beam me up, scotty…

india’s marathon boy

He runs seven hours at a stretch, sometimes as much as 48km (30 miles). On a daily basis. Then he was only 3,5 years old!!(read more: BBC News, september 13 2005) But now, after a year of being ‘a freak’ in a ‘circus show’ the change in the media’s tone could not have been more [...]

the institute for figuring

The Institute For Figuring is an educational organization dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of figures and figuring techniques.
And it shows really nice geometrical art.

guide to worldwide plugs & sockets

Well, eh, we travel a lot and, eh, we do need ‘the force’, don’t we?

super tetris

Big, bigger, biggest! Whoever stood in front of Bibliothèque nationale de France could connect himself with the building by dialing +33 (1) 44 24 73 50. Also in Berlin (pong and breakout ad packman).

flickeur

“Flickeur randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip. All the blends, motions, zooms or timeleaps are completely random.” Can a random blended content be art?

paper architecture

Richard Sweeney makes geometrical forms out of paper. Is is kind of high-tech origami. These small constructions are not only quite impressive because of there ingenuity, they are quite artistical too.
He is also experimenting with sliceforms and rapid prototyping. Quite impressive stuff.
via.

space colonies by nasa (1970)

Quote:
A couple of space colony summer studies were conducted at NASA Ames in the 1970s. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed. A number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.
Enjoy real vision.

hangover

Some may remember Francis Bacon’s words: “I have never found any panacea for a hangover. I don’t think one exists apart from suicide.�

hangover cures

W.C. Fields
A martini made of 1 part vermouth, 4 parts gin and one olive
To be taken round the clock.

lifestraw – vestergaard

Sharing a passion to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of ‘reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water’ by the year 2015, Vestergaard (denmark) recognizes the immense sense of urgency. At any given moment, about half of the world’s poor are suffering from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 [...]

read your palm

Why should someone else do it: read your own palm.

Hubble space telescope: M82

Zoom through the northern spring sky, in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, to the galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy. The observations were made by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Astronomers combined four color-filter images to make this exquisite image.
Zoom Animation into M82: 1.03 MB, 3.92 [...]

Two-Headed Turtle & Co.

Just some strange pictures…

the elements

I found a nice collection of photographs. Most of them are inspired by the elements.

Fireworks…

Do you remember the enschede fireworks disaster of 6 years ago? Look at this google film and see the terrible power of the disaster.

beer belly

Christian Nordqvist says it’s a paradox: If having a beer belly is not longer seen as a macho thing by men, like it used to be, why are men getting fatter and fatter all the time. The increase in weight of British men is becoming a national problem. Humankind has a funny way of becoming [...]

UAV’s

Yes, yes, big brother is watching us, and this is one of the machines (movie)(movie) he uses to spy on us (and military bases, of course…) it gets its energy from the sun and therefore are its wings enormous. You can find a lot of websites about all different types of machines.

optical illusions in reality

I stumbled upon this site about optical illusions integrated in interior designs. It is quite a nice idea to do this. Visitors who aren’t standing in the right position will never have a clue about the concept. They will never see the meaning of the apperently irrational lines and curves on the walls… This way [...]

solid smoke

But what to do with it?

Tree House

Not so long ago my kids made a tree house in our garden. Well, it was not more than some pieces of wood tied together. They enjoyed playing in it because they still have a lot of imagination.
Tom Chudleigh is a bit older and lost a bit of that childish imagination but in stead he [...]

Oliver Goldsmith, back to the sixties

Grace Kelly, Michael Caine, Audrey Hepburn, John Lennon, Givenchy, Dior, Vidal Sassoon, cult films of the fifties an Sixties, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Olivia Newtn John, the Rolling Stones, … They all has one thing in common: Oliver Goldsmith. Now they are back!! Face windows. Stereoscopic viewing. Horse drawn.
glases

Spyker cars

a wet boys dream, the ultimate symbol of independency, the beauty and the beast in one machine, invaluable, speed …

Hungover

What’ll give you a hangover? What won’t? Do you want to test your memory? On this site, which I found by accident (!), my college, Dr. Ralph, gives you some surgery and you can read the top 10 readers cures… My advice is, and I keep repeating it, stop drinking! Although another colleague keep saying [...]

Get smarter in a week

Can you Get Smarter In a Week? Our friends at the BBC think you can!
That’s the challenge you’re about to take on. During the following week they’ll ask you to practice brain exercises, increase your physical exercise and improve your diet, all to encourage a growth in concentration and brain power. The alternative is [...]

the art of prostheses

If you lost a part of your body, call Robert barron: he’ll fix you one made of a soft, durable silicone…

Old remedies

In these days people seem more and more concerned about their health. Everybody is taking food supplements and everyone knows that food containing ‘things’ like active bifidus are very good for our body. Using pseudo-scientific explanations with words and phrases that nobody really understands seems to work.
In the old days the marketing behind health products, [...]

Venereal Disease by Disney

We once had a job for a famous theme parc in Holland. We presented them a poetic story about love conquering dead. The story was nice and the subject was treated with respect and without clichés. The reaction of the management of the parc was a bit unexpected: dead had no role in there boundries. [...]

Looking for guinea pigs

Ever wanted to try hypnose? I found this program that can hypnotise you! The uses seem to be very interesting (Make a girl/boy love you passionately. Recover a broken friendship. Get the best out of your children, increase their memory and study capabilities, and make them study harder. Change the bad and dark sides of [...]

Destroy the earth

Although people are constantly talking about the destruction of the earth, the actual act is not so simple. On this site you can find some methods, the conditions you need and a plausability figure…

Saturn

Ever been to Saturn? This is kind of a photo-diary of a traveller who flew by the planet.

google earth

At first I was a bit sceptical about the hype around google earth. Just for the fun of it I just installed it…
I’m impressed. This really is a nice piece of software.
I hope the resolution for Europe improves, but anyway, I’m keeping this on my computer!

how to build a plane (a big plane)

In the video you can watch the assembly of the A380 Airbus in 7 min. I like the (short) scene where all the trucks arrive (1m20).

the moon assignment

This might be an interesting school project. Classic school television.
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