Monthly Archives: May 2012

Scenes from last night’s Festival of the Fires on the Hill of Uisneach, Co Westmeath.

…a mix of music, fire performance, art, culture, heritage and pageantry. The festival culminated with the ignition of a massive signal bonfire on Uisneach which is the catalyst for fires to be lit on over 100 hills visible from the summit and was preceded by an illuminated night-time fire parade.

Burning Man?

(Laura Hutton, Photocall Ireland)


An excellent animation from the nice folk at the Science Videos Blog. [spoiler: there’s a sad ending]:

 Our journey ends just short of our goal. Approximately one tenth of a second before we reach the singularity we would be torn apart by the tidal forces. This happens regardless of the mass of the black hole. In all black holes of any size our journey will end at roughly the same spot. We will never reach the point of infinite curvature, where space and time as we know them come to an end.

Mmf.

bookofjoe/coolsciencevideos

Yes. Plushie guts.

While they make a great substitution for a get well card, these adorable innards are also the perfect pals for pediatricians, psychologists and surgeons to prop in their offices or waiting rooms and help to ease the tension for patients of all ages.

$20 each (brain, heart, kidney and uterus) from the delightful I Heart Guts.

awesomer/uncommongoods