Photos of Interest
j7uy5 | August 7, 2006Here are a couple more vacation photos...
Notice that the bottom photo may seem to have been taken from a greater
altitude, although that is not the case. The top one is not
really a
vacation photo; it's from the
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060724.html">Astronomy
Picture of the Day site. (Credit:
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts121/121_crew.html">STS-121
Crew,
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition13/index.html">Expedition
13 Crew, NASA)
The top one was taken from a Space Shuttle; the…
j7uy5 | August 3, 2006OK, we're home, and I will stop cluttering up SB bandwidth with travel
photos soon. But just one more...
That's it for now.
j7uy5 | August 3, 2006
Hint: It is literally a hands-on exhibit in a Farm and Ranch museum.
The device pictured above is a milking machine. The idea is,
supposedly, for the visitor to learn what the machine feels like to the
cow.
Somehow, I doubt the experience is very similar.
j7uy5 | August 1, 2006
This is a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnemidophorus_neomexicanus">New
Mexico Whiptail (Cnemidophorus neomexicanus).
It was found near the roadrunner:
The roadrunner
(Geococcyx californianus) normally would eat the
lizard.
href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/NM-Quirky.html">This
specimen, however, is composed entirely of found objects.
That is, it is made of trash collected from the city dump, by
artist Olin S. Calk. It is located at exit 135 off I-10.
Its beak does not open, so it does not eat lizards.
j7uy5 | July 30, 2006
From the
href="http://www.emnrd.state.nm.us/emnrd/parks/cityrocks.htm">City
of Rocks.
j7uy5 | July 28, 2006
At La
Cueva. I'd appreciate it if someone could
identify this lizard. It is about 5 inches (12cm) long.
UPDATE: thanks to a tip from Kevin, I think I have ID'ed the little guy...
It appears to be a greater earless lizard: Cophosaurus texanus.
j7uy5 | July 27, 2006
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This is the approach to Aguirre Springs, on the east slope of the Organ
mountains.
j7uy5 | July 21, 2006
href="http://www.twinkies.com/recipe_view.asp?recipetype=Twinkies&rID=86">
Hostess Twinkies Sushi
Japanese animation, Hello Kitty, samurais, ninjas,
and Sushi are really popular right now! Here"s a wild recipe that"s
super easy to make and super fun to eat as a light and fruity snack!
href="http://www.twinkies.com/recipe_view.asp?recipetype=Twinkies&rID=86">This
recipe transforms the much loved Twinkie into a hip and
tropical flavored treat.
HT: Catty
Girls Discuss blog
j7uy5 | July 17, 2006
Some unexpected demands have impeded my progress on the "transgenic
drug" series. I've written part of what I planned to post
today. But I want to work on it some more.
In the meantime, here is a picture of noctilucent clouds, from
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060718.html">NASA's
APOD site. We are all relieved that the space
shuttle Discovery has landed safely. It turns out that the
space shuttle may be one reason that these unusual cloud formations
occur.
As explained by NASA:
Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden
Credit:
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j7uy5 | July 15, 2006The UM Center
for Organogenesis will have a booth at the
href="http://www.arborweb.com/annual_events_index.html">Art
Fairs in
Ann Arbor, featuring their Bio-Artography.
They'll be at
booth 155, on East University St.
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j7uy5 | July 15, 2006The
Wellcome Trust Biomedical Image Awards for 2006 have been announced.
The winners can be seen
href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/gallery.html">here.
This photograph shows nerve cells growing along synthetic silk fibers.
The tiny blue dots are
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwann_cell">Schwann
cells. Schwann cells are a type of glial cell that
form myelin sheaths.
The hope is that these fibers might enable us to guide the growth of
nerve cells, in order to repair damage. The technology is
described in
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5172422.stm"…
j7uy5 | July 9, 2006
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The
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_people"
title="Toda people">Toda people are a
small pastoral tribe of less than 1,000 people who reside in the
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nilgiris"
title="The Nilgiris">Nilgiri hills of Southern
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">India.
Shown here is a typical Toda hut, about 3 m (10 ft.) high, 5.5 m (18
ft.) long and 2.7 m (9 ft.) wide. They are built of bamboo fastened
with rattan and thatched. The hut has only a tiny (about 0.9 x 0.9 m…
j7uy5 | July 9, 2006
One of our cats is called Microsoft; another is called Patches.
I chuckle about that, sometimes.
Above is a picture of Patches, transformed by a java applet that can be
found here.
It appears that the original intent of the program was to
transform human faces to resemble those found among persons of
different ethnicities. However, they added some artistic
transformations as well. One option is to view a face as is
might have been portrayed by
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/modigliani/">Modigliani.
HT:
href="http://climactericclambake.blogspot.com/2006/07/i-am…
j7uy5 | July 7, 2006
This is the Spiral Galaxy NGC 2403 from Subaru, as noted on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day.
j7uy5 | July 5, 2006What part of the 50 US States is in the Eastern Hemisphere?
Hint: it was taken over by the Japanese in World War II.
Answer below the fold...
Answer:
href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3">Attu
Island, Alaska.