Tame Impala – “Feels Like We Only Go Backwards” – Lonerism

Helvetia’s Dream – a captivating time-lapse video of Switzerland. Love the meteor at 0:46.

Hurricane Sandy created conditions conducive to exotic optical phenomena like this display, captured by David Hathaway, comprising “two sun dogs, a 22-degree halo, a parahelic circle, an upper tangent arc, and a parry arc.”

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//fascinating: old weather project crowdsourcing reading of old ship’s logs
//creativity closely correlated with mental illness (again)
//are these spidery black things on mars dangerous?
//cache of amazing roman erotica unearthed
//locally-sourced maps of the antarctic
//DNA’s 521-year half-life

Cardioid/Sequoia simulation of the human heart

Stacked frames from the International Space Station (Cristoph Malin) – shades of hyperspace

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

A drop of water freezing at -20°C over 18 seconds, forming an ice tree (Science)

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//a great silence is spreading over the natural world
//i am the very model of an amateur grammarian
//conservative history of the united states
//magic the gathering is turing complete
//stacking city blocks sidewise
//two-dimensional zoetrope

Heat graph of PINs; origin is 0000, apex is 9999 (Data Genetics)