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Saturday, June 27, 2009

While reading this morning I found the article below to be very interesting.

Xeger writes “University of Chicago researchers have found that streams of sand can behave in a similar manner to liquids, forming water-like droplets when poured from a funnel. To obtain these results, they dropped their expensive high-speed camera from a height of several [...]

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Good in everything

by Earl on June 27, 2009

in Photography

I’m drawn to organic designs in nature–as in the case of this full frame photo of the spiny leaves of the desert Sotol plant.
There’s something fascinating in the simplistic complexity created through the process of natural evolution. The fascination lies not in only its beauty, but of its imperfections and ultimate functionality. There is always [...]

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