Photos of Interest
j7uy5 | August 28, 2007My non-expert identification of this:
href="http://www.mister-toad.com/photos/lizard/lizardphotos.html">desert
spiny lizard,
href="http://www.mister-toad.com/photos/lizard/Sceloporus_magister_15June05.jpg"
rel="tag">Sceloporus magister.
j7uy5 | August 20, 2007These things are hard to photograph. They are
faster than I
am, that is for sure. Out of about 30 shots, at least a few
were decent.
These are said to be the smallest birds in the USA.
They are
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliope_Hummingbird">named
after the Greek
muse of epic poetry, if you can believe Wikipedia.
j7uy5 | August 19, 2007Spent part of the afternoon trying to get better pictures of
the woodpeckers, but I am not happy with any of the pictures I got.
So here is someone else's picture:
I think it is easier to get pictures of birds when they are
in a confined space.
href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471537&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true#StartComments">Source.
j7uy5 | August 16, 2007Next to the headline "Corporate America Braces for Market
Fallout," is
a photo, selected at random, of a guy diving in front of some
skyscrapers.
It is not intended as an illustration for the article, but at first
glance it appears to be.
The actual photo is less alarming, when you can see the full context:
Su Qingliang, 58, dives into the Huanghai Sea as he
performs in Qingdao, east China's Shandong province August 15, 2007. Su
and four other people are planning to celebrate the Beijing 2008
Olympic Games by diving 208 times each into the Huanghai Sea on August
8, 2008, the day of…
j7uy5 | August 13, 2007Some
people did not believe that the picutre of the
href="http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2007/08/photo_of_surfing_dog.php">surfing
dog was
real. I can't prove it either way, with respect to that
particujlar dog, but I did find a video of
a different dog surfing. This might give pause to the
skeptics. The dog in the video is a
href="http://www.akc.org/breeds/golden_retriever/index.cfm">golden
retriever. If any dog could do it, a Golden
certainly could.
The photo, below, is a screen capture. The video is at the
SLO Tribune,
href="http://www.sanluisobispo.com/videos/…
j7uy5 | August 12, 2007I am now sure this is a ladderback. The photos are not very
sharp, having been taken through a window screen, but it still was fun.
The cat was going nuts. That's how I knew there was something
outside.
j7uy5 | August 10, 2007
That, by the way, is a cobra's head in the man's mouth.
Courtesy
of
href="http://news.sky.com/skynews/picture_gallery/0,,70141-1279060,00.html"
rel="tag">Sky News "We've scoured the globe for
some of the best, strangest and most dramatic photographic images..."
They quipped that snake charming is "a dying profession."
j7uy5 | August 10, 2007Since
the last one of these I did was kind of scary, I decided to do
one that is not so scary. It is just plain weird.
But there is an interesting story to it.
The
female is on the left; the male is on the right. These are
the genitalia of mallards:
href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Anas_platyrhynchos.html"
rel="tag">Anas platyrhynchos.
The photo is from
href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070430_duckgenital_evolu_02.jpg&cap=The+genitals+of+the+mallard+%28Anas+platyrhynchos%29%2C+female+vagina+…
j7uy5 | August 7, 2007
This
is featured at the
title="Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences">PNAS
site. It appears to not have a permanent link, but it
currently is the PNAS Featured Image on their
href="http://www.pnas.org/misc/news.shtml">PNAS in the News
page. The caption:
The
intromittent organ of male seed beetles is armed with sharp spines that
puncture the genital tract of females during copulation. This form of
sexual conflict has led to coevolution between these harmful male
structures and female defense morphologies in this group of insects. Photo
courtesy of Johanna Rönn…
j7uy5 | August 6, 2007Put
this near the top of things you don't want to do to yourself.
This woman developed fever and abdominal pain, but did not
disclose to her physician what she had done. That was her
second mistake.
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The oval darkish thing near the top of the CAT scan (marked by arrow)
is not supposed to be there. That white round thing in the
photo on the right is not supposed to be there. It looks like
a caseating granuloma, but is rather large for that...
Surgery
was performed, obviously. It was discovered that she had
inserted a plastic bag of cocaine…
j7uy5 | August 5, 2007
href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-pod-pix,1,4514127.photogallery?coll=chi_business_promo&index=3">LA
Times photo by Stephen Osman
Buddy,
a 4-year-old Jack Russell terrier, catches a wave while surfing Rincon
Point in Santa Barbara County, north of Ventura, Calif.
j7uy5 | July 27, 2007
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OK,
here's another front-yard bird.
j7uy5 | July 27, 2007
This
bird was in my front yard a couple of days ago. It flew away
before I could get a better picture.
j7uy5 | July 26, 2007
href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-07/24/content_6424764.htm">These
are sooo precious...
The
one on the left is the cub. They are
href="http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chrotogale_owstoni.html"
rel="tag">Owston's Palm Civets, Chrotogale
owstoni ...
They
are found in southern Yunan and southwest Guangxi provinces in
China; northern Vietnam; and northern Laos. The typical
weight is 2-3 kg (4.4 to 6.6 pounds), length 50-60cm.
10cm, by the way, is the width of my palm across the knuckles
(which is pretty convenient sometimes). …
j7uy5 | July 23, 2007I was
reading about the
href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/24941.php">epidemic
of vitamin D deficiency, got curious
about albinism,
and ended up finding this picture of a white lion. It is
distributed under a
creative commons license, attribution required. The
photographer is
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The original, in much higher resolution (and not compressed
for the web) is in
href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:White_Lion.jpg"
rel="tag">Wikimedia.
This is not to be confused with the band named
href="http://www.…
j7uy5 | July 23, 2007
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/3/e3">
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">This image
shows what can happen to your retina from a sudden increase in venous
pressure. What could cause such a sudden increase?
Jumping straight down, followed by sudden upward
acceleration. The patient initially had 20/400 vision in the
affected eye. After surgery it stabilized at 20/25.
The image, by the way, can be viewed full-size at the
open-access NEJM article:
href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/3/e3">Macular
Hemorrhage from Bungee Jumping.
See for…
j7uy5 | July 22, 2007As
reported in the journal, The Lancet, a man has
been found who had a
small brain, but a normal life. The article is subscription
only so I am not even going to link to it. But it is still
noteworthy.
There is a fair summary in the online version of
href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,495607,00.html">Der
Spiegel, and it is even in English. It
describes the case of a 44-year-old man employed in a tax office.
He was married, father of two, holding down a job, seemingly
fine.
In 2003 he noticed some weakness in his left leg.
He ultimately was seen by Dr…