Category: Science and nature
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Pretty Purple
I often walk to the supermarket for our weekly shop. This morning I noticed these pretty purple flowers (roses?) on a street corner. Google Photos tries hard to come up with creative variations. Its attempt for this one didn’t quite work out, though:
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Little Red Flowers
These flowers seem to all over Modiin. I have no idea what they’re called but they’re pretty.
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ISS Expedition Posters Are Gifts For Geeks
If you consider yourself a geek, especially a space and sci-fi geek, you have to take a look at this collection of ISS Expedition Posters. They are awesome
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The Great Israeli Umbrella Fraud
Each Winter, Israelis are taken in by the Great Israeli Umbrella Fraud, and someone has to speak out. Today, that someone is me.
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Why you’re not a morning person (unless you are)
If you’re ever accused of being lazy or slacking off because you’re not a morning person or because you just want to have a quick nap and recharge, there is a body of science backing you up!
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Our home on a cloudy day in May 1969
One of the many things I like about having a Chromecast is seeing images like this beautiful photograph of our home planet courtesy of NASA’s Image of the Day initiative.
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[Video] Writing the software for our computer brains
This is a fascinating lecture about brains as computers and who writes the software for these machines between our ears.
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The beautiful complexity of the human brain
Self Reflected offers a stunnng view of the human brain’s architecture. It is mesmerising.