By selectively manipulating the pH gradient of liquids in which barium carbonate crystals were immersed, Harvard researcher Wim L. Noorduin was able to grow the crystals into miniature flower shapes by laying down successive layers of silica, which he then photographed with a scanning electron microscope.
It’s witchcraft basically.
The colours are false – generated by the electron microscope. Here’s an uncoloured image.
Still witchcraft.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXl-krlLoxg
What you may need to know.
1. He’s BACK! Marty McFly in the hizzouse!
2. As generational icons go, Michael J. Fox IS the 1980s.
3. Family Ties – now there was a sitcom. We met Skippy once. The years hadn’t been kind.
4. MJF stepped back from acting after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s, popping up for scene-stealing bits on everything from Rescue Me and Scrubs to Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Good Wife.
5. Now he’s returning to primetime as, well, a dude with Parkinson’s.
6. Prognosis: we’re always up for some good, old-school sitcom hilarity.
7. While we’re at it: has anyone watch Arrested Development season 4 yet?
Release Date: Autumn (US)
Minutes ago.
Tom Rogers writes:
Cruising down Pearse Street [Dublin] now…
Name that car, anyone?
Ruth Farnan, a leaving cert student and a supporter of the Irish Feminist Network has written an open letter to the Irish Independent.
Over their use of ‘Woman’ as a newspaper category
Before you make up your mind read the open letter.
While using your website for my daily news update a sub-heading on the menu took my attention.
Woman.
Clicking on it, it brought me to a page titled ‘independentwoman.ie’.
As a 19-year-old Irish female I feel the need to question this website and its placement on the Independent website.
The website includes celebrity news, fashion, beauty, diet and ‘Love&Sex’. I am sure there are many women who would love these topics but they are not for me. In relation to women I’m interested in women’s rights, women in business and in sport. None of this is featured on the website in front of me. If I had wanted to read the topics provided I would have clicked on Lifestyle.
I decided to investigate further and went to the Irish Times website. They have no such ‘Woman’ sub-heading . Any topics similar to what are on the Independent’s Woman website are placed under ‘Lifestyle’ – where I expected to find them.
I do not intend to completely write this website off as a sexist creation with no place in our society. I am merely questioning its place on the website and its intentions. I do like some elements of the website such as the articles written on relationships and feminism in celebrity culture but it is missing a more open view on women.
Are women not interested in business and sport? If a man wishes to read about fashion, beauty, diet or even sex he must go on to ‘Women’s’ website or surf through the badly laid out ‘Lifestyle’ section. Where is the ‘Man’ website with all the masculine things men are only meant to read about like cars and sports?
I hope this letter makes you think of how the website is laid out or you even begin to rethink about how women are portrayed in your newspaper. We are not all hooked on Fashion and Celebs. Women are more complex than the sub-topics on your website.
Ruth Farnan
Leaving Cert Student.
Thanks Sheep
Cliff Richard at the Gibson Hotel, Dublin, this morning for possible charity-related circumstances. More as we get it..
He loved that horse.
He’s 48.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
http://vimeo.com/66288243
You are invited into a dingy flat where you’ll find the Cupboard Man living alone… raised by an unhinged mother and subjected to many trials over an eventful life, he recounts the days of his youth and his experience of the “real world” as he approaches adulthood, or runs from it.”
A play about Karl?
NO.
Jeda de Brí writes:
I know you don’t normally do this, but this is a trailer for a play I’m directing in Theatre Upstairs on Eden Quay, Dublin from June 4th-15th. It’s a one man show performed by Finbarr Doyle about a man that lives in a cupboard. Tickets are €10 and soup is included at the matinees.
Conversations With The Cupboard Man (Facebook)
Mmm.
Aaron writes:
Saw this plant in Aldi [Dublin]. Is it cheap grow your own?
There’s a step ahead, see pic, looks insurmountable. What do you think? Should we turn our backs on #Everest now? twitter.com/Everest1953/st…
— Everest53 (@Everest1953) May 29, 2013
Sixty years since the first ascent.
Live Tweeting to the summit of Mount Everest happening NOW.
RTE has re-emphasised that it will not put last night’s Breach of Trust on RTE Player and the programme will never be repeated. In accordance apparently with the parents’ wishes.
What are we?
CHILDREN?
Earlier: Giraffe, Links And Little Harvard
UPDATE: You didn’t see THIS, right? (taps nose)
So Reilly is trying to coax,
Youngsters away from the smokes,
By simply demanding,
And end to all branding,
Designed to attract younger folks.
John Moynes
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
